As
with the other concepts in the Ogdoad,
he was dualistically considered to have
a female aspect, referred to as Amunet
(also spelt Amentet, Amentit, Imentet,
Imentit, Amaunet, and Ament), which was
simply the feminine form of the word Amun.
The other female aspects of the Ogdoad
were all depicted as snakes, thus Amunet
was depicted likewise. Amun and MutGradually,
as god of air, he came to be associated
with the breath of life, which created
the ba, particularly in Thebes. By the
First Intermediate Period this had lead
to him being thought of, in these areas,
as the creator god, titled father of the
gods, preceding the Ogdoad, although also
part of it. As he became more significant,
he was assigned a wife (Amunet being his
own female aspect, more than a distinct
wife), and since he was the creator, his
wife was considered the divine mother
from which the cosmos emerged, who in
the areas where Amun was worshipped was,
by this time, Mut.
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