Editing Unut (section)

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian deity}}
{{Distinguish|Nut (goddess)}}
{{For|the town in Armenia|Hunut}}
{{Infobox deity
| type = Egyptian
| name = Unut
| image = Unut Goddess.svg
| caption = The egyptian goddess Unut based on other hare-headed deities
| hiero = <hiero>wn:n-nw:t-I12</hiero>
| cult_center = [[Hermopolis]]
| symbol = [[Hare]]
| consort = Wenenu
}}

'''Unut''', also known as '''Wenut''' or '''Wenet''', was a [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[Ancient Egypt]]ian [[hare]] and [[snake]] [[goddess]] of fertility and new birth.<ref>{{Cite web |last=San-Aset |date=2020-04-05 |title=The Hare Goddess (Wenet Part 2) |url=https://iseumsanctuary.com/2020/04/05/the-hare-goddess-wenet-part-2/ |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=Iseum Sanctuary |language=en}}</ref>

Known as "The swift one", the animal sacred to her was the hare, but originally, she had the form of a [[snake]]. She came from the fifteenth Upper [[Egypt]]ian province, the [[Hare nome]] (called Wenet in Egyptian), and was worshipped with [[Thoth]] at its capital [[Hermopolis]] (in Egyptian: ''Wenu''). Later she was depicted with a woman's body and a hare's head.<ref>[[Erik Hornung]], ''Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many'', [[Cornell University]] Press 1996, {{ISBN|0-8014-8384-0}}, p. 82</ref> She was taken into the cult of [[Horus]] and later of [[Ra]].