Wenet (alt. Unut) was the ancient Egyptian Goddess of the 15th Upper Egyptian province and was worshipped with Thoth in the town of Wenu, named after her. Her male companion was the rabbit-headed god Wenenu, who was sometimes regarded as an aspect of Osiris. Wenet, whose name means the swift one, was originally depicted as a snake goddess, but later as a hare or as a woman with the head of a hare.
Wenet was taken into the cults of Horus and Ra, but appeared rarely in inscriptions, and the only person of royal position to take her name was Unas, last king of the 5th dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Wenet is a goddess of material desires, but the hare has always been associated with fertility and passionate love. Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, was often depicted carrying a hare, and the hare was a favorite animal of Eros, god of sexual love: this makes Wenet a goddess of fertility and sexuality too.
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