Goddess who formed part of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis. She was the female counterpart of Amun. In this role she occasionally appears in Thebes as this god's wife, a position usually confined to Mut. According to texts from the Ptolemaic period, Amaunet was the personification of the north wind, the primeval mother, or the 'mother who was the father' (by which the Egyptians meant 'the mother who needed no husband to conceive children'). She gave birth to the sun god Re, or according to other texts, even to the god Amun in so far as he was a form of Re.