Unut, alt. Wenut or Wenet, was a prehistoric Egyptian hare and snake goddess of fertility and new birth. Originally, she had the form of a snake and was called "The swift one". She came from the fifteenth Upper Egyptian 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. She was taken into the cult of Horus and later of Ra. Her name can be represented with five different hieroglyphs, but she rarely appears in literature and inscriptions. Her name was taken into the highest royal position just once in the long Egyptian history. Her male companion is Wenenu, who was sometimes regarded as a form of Osiris or Ra. The only king bearing her name was Unas. References Egyptian goddesses Snake goddesses