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:''For the abbreviation describing the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], see [[k.u.k.]]. For the early agricultural site in Papua New Guinea, see [[Kuk Swamp]]. For the river in Alaska, see [[Kuk River]]''
'''Kuk''' (also spelled as '''Keku''') is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness in [[Egyptian mythology]]. In the [[Ogdoad]] [[cosmogony]], his name meant ''darkness''. As a concept, Kuk was viewed as [[androgynous]], his female form being known as '''Kauket''' (also spelled as '''Keket'''), which is simply the [[Grammatical gender|female form]] of the word ''Kuk''. Like all 4 dualistic concepts in the Ogdoad, Kuk's male form was depicted as a [[frog]], or as a frog-[[head]]ed man, and the female form as a [[snake]], or a snake-headed woman. As a symbol of darkness, Kuk also represented obscurity and the unknown, and thus [[chaos]].{{fact|date=April 2007}} Also, Kuk was seen as that which occurred before light, thus was known as the ''bringer-in of light''.
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