Five thousand years ago, the high priests of Ancient Kemet didn't just pray to the gods—they became them. Today, the journey to uncover the foundations of all manifestation continues with: Nun and Naunet, the god/goddess duo who are the primordial waters of infinite potential from which all manifestation in the material world emerges.

Before Ptah spoke creation into being, before Tatenen rose as the first solid earth, there was... nothing. And everything all at once. The people of Ancient Kemet likened the concept of inert potentiality to water. Similar to the watery depths of Earth’s oceans, they saw the divine cosmos beyond the realm of the physical as having a similar property.

An infinite ocean of potential without form, without time, without distinction.

This is Nun—the primordial waters from which all manifestation emerges.

This singular field of primordial energy has been called many things by many cultures. Science has even tried to place labels on that which matter emerges out of.

Nun is the entity/force that represents the chaos of creation and the force behind raw, undifferentiated potential. Without understanding this, your rituals will remain half-formed. Your visions will never solidify. Your mountains will never rise.

Your mountains (manifestations) are in Nun, before you are even aware of them. Manifestations being the things that you have the ability to bring into material existence.

Previously, I wrote about Ptah-Tatenen—the god who is the primordial mountain, the first solid ground, the foundation of all creation. You learned that you are that mountain. You are an emergent being in this matrix who are awakening to your divine potential and that manifestation happens when thought (Ptah) fuses with matter (Tatenen).

But I left something out. Deliberately.

You can't understand the mountain of potential within you until you understand the timeless waters that hold within it, any and all futures.

Today, we dive into Nun and Naunet—the primordial couple, the infinite ocean, the sacred chaos that births all form.

With this information, may your knowledge and perception in Sia increase (God of Perception). May you have more clarity going forward when trying to navigate the realm of the divine. May your visions no longer dissolve, but solidify.

This goes far beyond positive thinking. This is Kemetic spirituality

The mountain cannot exist without the waters. And you've been trying to build on nothing.

In the Hermopolitan creation myth (from the city of Khmun, which Greeks called Hermopolis), before anything existed, there were 8 primordial forces. These are forces of nature in its most pure, raw form. In Ancient Kemet, they were called the Ogdoad—four pairs of masculine and feminine deities representing pre-creation conditions:

Of these eight, Nun and Naunet are primary. They are the very first condition—the waters of chaos from which even the other primordial forces emerge. All is possible within the waters of Nun.

Nun is not "water" in the sense of H₂O. Water was used to symbolically represent the concept that the scribes and priests of Ancient Kemet wanted to get across. Unlimited potential within the nature of reality was related to see “unlimited” depths of the seas and oceans.

Nun represents:

The ancient Kemetic texts describe it beautifully:

"I am the one who was before the Two came into being on this earth." (Coffin Texts)

Before duality (light/dark, up/down, form/formless), there was Nun—the undifferentiated ONE that contains all possibilities.

The Memphite theology (Ptah's creation story) and Hermopolitan theology (Nun's story) aren't contradictory—they're sequential:

Metaphor: Nun is the ocean. Ptah is the thought "let there be land." Tatenen is the island that rises.

You cannot have the island without the ocean beneath it.

Answer this question for me:

Have you been doing visualization? Affirmations? Vision boards? "Holding the frequency"?

And yet... the thing you want keeps NOT manifesting? Or manifests briefly, then dissolves?

Here's why.

Contemporary "law of attraction" teachings focus ONLY on creation:

But they skip the waters.

They tell you to create, create, create—without ever honoring dissolution.

They tell you to be positive, positive, positive—without ever acknowledging chaos.

They tell you to hold form, hold form, hold form—without ever releasing into formlessness.

This is like trying to build a mountain in mid-air. Without the waters beneath, without the foundation of Nun's chaos, your creation has nothing to rise FROM.

1. Rigidity - Refusing to Let Old Forms Dissolve

You're clinging to how you think it should manifest. You're attached to specific forms. You won't let the old version die.

Forms must dissolve back into potential before new forms can emerge. Your rigid grip on "how it has to be" prevents the natural cycle.

Example: You want a new career, but you won't quit the old job. You want a new relationship, but you won't grieve the last one. You want transformation, but you won't release your identity.

The mountain cannot rise if you're standing on quicksand refusing to sink.

2. Fear of Chaos - Avoiding Necessary Endings

You're terrified of the void. You fill every moment with noise, activity, planning. You can't sit in uncertainty. You need to know what's next before you release what is.

Nun's teaching: The void is not emptiness—it's infinite potential. Chaos isn't destruction—it's the womb of creation. The space between breaths is where life happens.

Example: You end something (a job, relationship, phase of life) and immediately rush to fill the gap. You never allow the fallow period. You never honor the dissolution.

The mountain rises from the waters, but first you have to BE in the waters.

3. Forced Manifestation - Fighting Natural Cycles

You're pushing, forcing, hustling 24/7. You believe "if I just work harder, think more positively, DO MORE, it'll happen."

Nun's teaching: Creation has rhythms. The sun sets into Nun's waters every night and DIES there before being reborn at dawn. Forcing constant daylight kills the cycle.

Example: You're exhausted, burnt out, depleted—but you keep pushing because "manifestation requires action!" You've forgotten that seeds need dark, dormant winters before they sprout.

The mountain doesn't FORCE itself up. It EMERGES naturally when conditions align.

"The sun must die each night in Nun's waters to be reborn at dawn."

Every evening, Ra's solar barque descends into the Duat (underworld) and travels through Nun's waters. The sun DIES. It dissolves. It enters chaos.

And every morning, it is REBORN.

This is not metaphor. This is THE PATTERN OF REALITY.

Creation → Dissolution → Creation → Dissolution

Mountain → Waters → Mountain → Waters

Form → Chaos → Form → Chaos

You are trying to live in permanent daylight. You are trying to be the mountain forever. You are refusing the waters. You are refusing the chaos of uncertainty to brings about the mountain of creation.

The Ancient Kemetic people understood that there is an ebb and flow to creation that involves dissolution of the past.

Let me reframe something for you:

Chaos is not your enemy. Dissolution is not failure. The void is not punishment. These things are a part of life and therefore part of the cycle of manifestation and destruction.

Nun is the womb of creation.

Biologically: Birth requires the amniotic waters. The embryo floats in fluid chaos before becoming solid form.

Ecologically: Forest fires clear dead wood, returning nutrients to soil. New growth requires the ash.

Creatively: Every artist knows the "incubation period"—the chaotic, unclear phase before the vision crystalizes.

Spiritually: Every mystic speaks of the "dark night of the soul"—the dissolution of ego before divine union.

Nun is ALL of these.

"The most fertile ground is found in the floodplains of the Nile."

The annual flooding of the Nile was chaos —destructive, uncontrollable, overwhelming. It dissolved boundaries, destroyed structures, turned order into liquid.

And it was the source of Egypt's abundance.

The flood waters brought nutrient-rich silt. The chaos created the fertility that fed millions.

Without the flood, there is no harvest.

Without Nun and Naunet, there is no Tatenen.

Without dissolution, there is no manifestation.

The spell below is meant to help you face your fears. It’s meant to help you embrace the paradox of life and come to peace with the chaos of uncertainty while the future you seek is being formed beneath your feet.

Djed medu:

"Ra weba khesefu! Ra, open the doors of heaven!

I stand here as Tatenen—solid and formed—and I choose to descend into what I have feared.

My shadow calls while the waters of Nun await. The chaos whispers my name.

I am ready to face what I have avoided.

I release my grip on certainty. I surrender my need to control. I dissolve my illusion of safety.

Like Ra sinking beneath the horizon, I allow myself to move past what was. Not in defeat, but in trust. Not in ending, but in sacred transformation.

I descend into Nun—the dark waters I have feared.

Here in the depths, I meet what I have denied:

I face my shadow. I embrace the paradox. I sit with the fear.

In these sacred waters, I am simultaneously:

I am the mountain sinking. I am the seed in dark soil. I am the sun in the underworld.

All that I have hidden—I bring into these waters. All that I have feared—I allow to surface here. All that I have resisted—I finally release.

Nun, receive my shadow. Chaos, teach me your wisdom. Darkness, show me what light cannot.

Even now, beneath my fear, beneath my resistance, beneath my desperate grasping for solid ground—the future I seek is forming in these very depths.

The mountain rises from the waters, not by my force, but by cosmic law. Creation emerges from chaos, not by my control, but by divine timing.

What must come is being shaped beneath my feet even as I float formless.

I trust the cycle. I honor the chaos. I embrace the paradox:

To manifest, I must first dissolve. To create, I must first destroy. To rise, I must first descend. To find myself, I must first lose myself.

To become the mountain, I must first be the waters.

I am Nun. I am chaos. I am shadow. I am infinite potential.

And from this sacred darkness, something new will emerge—not forced, not manufactured, but rising naturally as Tatenen rises, inevitable as dawn.

What I feared has become the womb. What I avoided has become my teacher. What I resisted has become my transformation.

The shadow is not my enemy—it is the sacred dark where all creation gestates.

So it is spoken. So I dissolve. So I shall be reborn.

Nun receives all that I am—light and shadow, form and chaos, fear and trust.

The mountain returns when the waters decree it. And the waters are already speaking.