Wenut

**Wenut**


 * Other Names:**

Unut, Wenet


 * Meaning of Name:**

“She Who Springs Up”


 * Titles:**

“Good Being”

“Beautiful Hare” “The Swift One”

This goddess was thought to protect people as they slept, and was frequently depicted on headrests. Wenut was pictured as a hare or cobra (two animals that the ancient Egyptians associated with alertness and watchfulness, as they believed that the hare did not close its eyes when it slept, and that the cobra had no eyelids and thus could not sleep.) Occasionally Wenut was shown as a woman with the head of a hare.

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