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	The Ogdoad
		In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are the eight deities worshipped in Hermopolis.
		The gods of the Ogdoad were mostly seen as humans with their animals' heads, or just depicted as snakes and frogs.
		The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On, Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation, then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile flow and the sun rise every day.
	www.crystalinks.com /ogdoad.html (545 words)

	Egyptian Pantheon
		She was a member of the group of Egyptian gods known as the Ogdoad.
		He was a member of the Ogdoad, paired with the goddess Amaunet and representing hidden power.
		Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected.
	library.thinkquest.org /12865/mray/pegy.htm (3246 words)

	Ogdoad
		There is only one ogdoad known today, the one revered at Hermopolis.
		The 8 gods were central to the creation of the world, and arranged in 4 male-female pairs, each representing a basic aspect of the chaos prior to creation.
		In the older, an egg was laid on the primeval mound by a celestial bird or a cosmic goose.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ogdoad.htm (282 words)

	An Egyptian Pantheon
		One of the eight Primal Beings of the Ogdoad, being paired with Heh as co-Spirits of Infinity.
		One of the eight Primal Beings of the Ogdoad, being paired with Hauhet as co-Spirits of Infinity.
		One of the eight Primal Beings of the Ogdoad, being paired with Naunet as co-Spirits of Emptyness.
	web.raex.com /~obsidian/EgyPan.html (3455 words)

	Amun Summary
		Originally, he was simply nothing more than a deification of the concept of air, and thus wind, one of the four fundamental concepts held to have composed the primordial universe, in the Ogdoad cosmogeny, whose cult was strongest in Hermopolis.
		As with the other concepts in the Ogdoad, he was dualistically considered to have a female aspect, referred to as Amunet (also spelt Amentet, Amentit, Imentet, Imentit, Amaunet, and Ament), which was simply the feminine form of the word Amun.
		As he became more significant, he was assigned a wife (Amunet being his own female aspect, more than a distinct wife), and since he was the creator, his wife was considered the divine mother from which the cosmos emerged, who in the areas where Amun was worshipped was, by this time, Mut.
	www.bookrags.com /Amun (1996 words)

	Kuk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In Egyptian mythology, Kuk (also spelt Keku) was the deification of the primordial concept of darkness, in the Ogdoad cosmogony, his name meaning darkness.
		As a concept, Kuk was viewed as androgynous, his female form being known as Kauket (also spelt Keket), which is simply the 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-headed man, and the female form as a snake, or a snake-headed woman.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kuk (209 words)

	Anus - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Originally, in the Ogdoad system, he was god of the underworld, and his name is frequently thought to have reflected this, meaning something like putrefaction.
		As the god of defecation, Anus was identified as the father of Kebechet, the goddess of the purification of bodily organs due to be placed in jars during mummification.
		Following the merging of the Ennead and Ogdoad belief systems, as a result of the identification of Atum with Ra, and their compatibility, Anus became considered a lesser god in the underworld, giving way to the more popular Osiris.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Anus (677 words)

	Byzant Scriptorium - The Ogdoad
		The Ogdoad were the primeval forces of chaos in Egyptian mythology, represented as eight deities that existed before the creation of the sun god.
		A piece of the shell of the cosmic egg from which the sun was born was said to be buried in a temple there.
		The Ogdoad is an expression of precreational infinity and always has eight as a characteristic, thus it has links with the lemniscate symbol of infinity and with the cyclical sense of eternity through the eight-spoked Wheel of the Year and the octagram.
	www.byzant.com /Mystical/Scriptorium/Ogdoad.aspx (465 words)

	Horus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		His mother was originally said to have been Hathor, since Hathor was considered as a representation of the Milky way, which encirles the sky, specifically as the cow whose milk produced it, and so Hathor was thought of as Ra's wife.
		Likewise, as Ra-Herakhty, in an allusion to the Ogdoad creation myth, Horus was occasionaly shown in art as a naked boy, with a finger in his mouth, sitting on a lotus with his mother.
		As the primal waters, from which Ra arose due to the interaction of the ogdoad, Neith was considered to have given birth whilst remaining a virgin.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Heru (3120 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Religion Lessons - Lesson 3
		Eventually, the Eight (also known as the Ogdoad) interacted explosively and the blast of their powers resulted in the bursting forth of the first hill from the watery chaos.
		The Ogdoad's part in the story is most important in the fact that in Hermopolis they were believed to have created the sun god.
		This later version was adapted to the story of the Ogdoad because the priests of Hermopolis wanted to promote their local god Thoth (whom the Greeks knew as Hermes, hence the name Hermopolis).
	www.egyptvoyager.com /religionlessons_3_part1.htm (1174 words)

	Ogdoad of Hermopolis (Khmunu)
		The Greeks gave it that name because it was a major cult centre of the god Thoth who they associated with their god Hermes, but the Egyptians knew it as Khmunu ("the City of the Eight").
		The Ogdoad was a system of eight deities, four gods and their consorts (the number four was considered to represent completeness).
		However, the cult of Thoth developed after the original myth of the Ogdoad, so it is probable that this story was an attempt to incorporate Thoth into the pre-existing Ogdoad (who were sometimes known as "the souls of Thoth").
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk /ogdoad.html (577 words)

	Ogdoad, Eight, 8
		The Ratio of 9 to 8 is sesquioctave and this forms a tone and is attributed to the Moon.
		Hence the Ogdoad was also called "Cadmeia," because Harmony was looked upon as the wife of Cadmus and Cadmus meant the Sub-lunary World, as Olympiodorus says.
		Macrobius says the Ogdoad was the type of Justice, be-cause it consists of even numbers and on account of its equal divisions.
	www.supertarot.co.uk /westcott/chap12.htm (530 words)

	GRAECO-EGYPTIAN MAGICK -- www.hermeticmagick.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He is described as "the god who commands and directs all things, since to him angels, archangels, he-daimons, she-daimons, and all things under creation have been subjected." Ogdoas is described as "ruler of the pole" which indicates an association with Polaris, the pole star.
		For the Gnostic Valentinian school, the Ogdoad was the realm of the divine wisdom, called Sophia Achamoth.
		In the earliest Hekhaloth literature the secret name of the Ogdoad has been preserved, and is 'Azbogah, which is composed of three consonants, each having the numerical value of eight.
	www.hermeticmagick.com /deities/ogdoas.htm (432 words)

	Ogdoad
		There is only one ogdoad known today, the one revered at Hermopolis.
		The 8 gods were central to the creation of the world, and arranged in 4 male-female pairs, each representing a basic aspect of the chaos prior to creation.
		In the older, an egg was laid on the primeval mound by a celestial bird or a cosmic goose.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/ogdoad.htm (311 words)

	Amun
		Originally, he was simply nothing more than a deification of the concept of air, and thus wind, one of the four fundamental concepts held to have composed the primordial universe, in the Ogdoad cosmogeny, whose cult was strongest in Heliopolis.
		Like all other members of the Ogdoad, his male aspect was usually depicted as a frog, or frog-headed.
		The other female aspects of the Ogdoad were all depicted as snakes, thus Amunet was depicted likewise.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Egypt/gods/amun.html (1351 words)

	NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine \| Christian ...
		This treatise, On the Ogdoad, is no longer extant, though it is probable that we have a few fragments of it (see Harvey, I. clxvi.).
		These eight he called the first or primary Ogdoad; and hence a work upon the Ogdoad, written against a Valentinian, must, of course, be a general discussion of the Valentinian doctrine of the æons.
		The word Ogdoad was not used by all the Gnostics in the same sense.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.x.xxi.html (1823 words)

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		The Ogdoad were responsible for the flow of the Nile and the rising of the sun each day.
		As the cult of Thoth was newer than that of the Ogdoad, it is likely that this version was created by the priests of Thoth to merge the mythologies of the Eight and of Thoth.
		The Ogdoad was sometimes called the souls of Thoth.
	info.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/Egipto_Ogdoada_Hermopolis.htm (576 words)

	Amaunet, the Primeval Egyptian Goddess of Air and Hidden Forces--Hermopolitan Ogdoad Amun Wind Goddess Air Goddess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Hermopolitan Ogdoad was of such importance that the name "Khmun" simply means "Eight Town", and even today the modern name, el-Ashmunein, is derived from a Coptic word meaning "eight".
		When Amaunet was depicted with the other Deities of the Ogdoad, She, like the other Goddesses, was depicted as a woman with a snake's head; sometimes the Goddesses' feet were replaced with the heads of jackals.
		The Gods of the Ogdoad were shown with frogs' heads: both the snake and frog are associated with the Underworld, water, and transformation; and jackals additionally are linked with the dead or Underworld.
	www.thaliatook.com /amaunet.html (1175 words)

	Hauhet
		Hauhet is an Egyptian goddess and is represented as a frog.
		The Ogdoad are eight Egyptian dieties who were especially worshipped in Hermoplic in Upper Egypt.
		The Ogdoad were made up of four goddesses and four gods.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hauhet.html (84 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - Ogdoad
		At the Middle Egyptian town of Hermopolis, dedicated to the god of wisdom, Thot, a special group of 8 gods, known as the Ogdoad, was worshiped.
		The Ogdoad consisted of 4 pairs of gods, each pair representing the male and female parts of the different aspects of chaos out of which the cosmos was created.
		Four members of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis receive a libation and an incense offering from Ptolemaios III Euergetes on the Propylon of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /religion/gods/ogdoad.html (182 words)

	Nun
		In Egyptian mythology, Nu (also spelt Nun), is the deification of the primordial watery abyss, in the Ogdoad cosmogony, the name meaning abyss.
		Like the others of the 4 primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male form was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man, and Nu's female form was pictured as a snake, or a snake-headed woman.
		Like the other ogdoad concepts, Nu did not have temples, or worship, however, Nu was sometimes represented by a sacred lake, or, as at Abydos, by an underground stream.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Egypt/gods/nun.html (142 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, I.9 (St. Irenaeus)
		Thus it is that, wresting from the truth every one of the expressions which have been cited, and taking a bad advantage of the names, they have transferred them to their own system; so that, according to them, in all these terms John makes no mention of the Lord Jesus Christ.
		For if he has named the Father, and Charis, and Monogenes, and Aletheia, and Logos, and Zoe, and Anthropos, and Ecclesia, according to their hypothesis, he has, by thus speaking, referred to the primary Ogdoad, in which there was as yet no Jesus, and no Christ, the teacher of John.
		For, since Logos, and Monogenes, and Zoe, and Phōs, and Soter, and Christus, and the Son of God, and He who became incarnate for us, have been proved to be one and the same, the Ogdoad which they have built up at once falls to pieces.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0103109.htm (1033 words)

	Nun
		According to the theology of the Ogdoad the universe was formed from the interaction of eight elements (instigated by one of a number of possible gods including Thoth, Amun, Horus and Ra); water, nothingness or invisibility, darkness and infinity.
		Nun was represented as a frog or a frog-headed man (as a member of the Ogdoad) but could also be depicted as a bearded man with blue or green skin (reflecting his link with the river Nile and fertility).
		As Amun was both the creator god of Thebes and a member of the Ogdoad they suggested that Nun had been a powerful, but inert force until Amun turned himself into the primeval mound and thereafter created the other gods.
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk /nun.html (473 words)

	The Gospel of the Egyptians -- The Nag Hammadi Library
		The ogdoad, because of which the thrice-male child came forth, which is the thought, and the word, and the incorruption, and the eternal life, the will, the mind, and the foreknowledge, the androgynous Father.
		The third ogdoad-power, the Son of the silent silence, and the crown of the silent silence, and the glory of the Father, and the virtue of the Mother, he brings forth from the bosom the seven powers of the great light of the seven voices.
		Their consorts came forth for the completion of the ogdoad of the divine Autogenes: the Grace of the first light Harmozel, the Perception of the second light Oroiael, the Understanding of the third light Davithe, the Prudence of the fourth light Eleleth.
	www.gnosis.org /naghamm/goseqypt.html (2790 words)

	Adversus haereses XVI-XX
		Wherefore also they, by means of their "knowledge," avoid the place of ninety-nine, that is, the defection -- a type of the left hand, -- but endeavour to secure one more, which, when added to the ninety and nine, has the effect of changing their reckoning to the right hand.
		I wish also to explain to thee their theory as to the way in which the creation itself was formed through the mother by the Demiurge (as it were without his knowledge), after the image of things invisible.
		And they say that the Ogdoad is indicated by man in this way: that he possesses two ears, the like number of eyes, also two nostrils, and a twofold taste, namely, of bitter and sweet.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Christianity/Church_Fathers/adversus_haereses_iv.htm (2336 words)

	Egyptian Deities
		Amon was worshipped as a fertility god at Thebes in Upper Egypt and became a national deity in the Second millennium BC.
		She was generally benevolent and had the power to cure disease, but she could also inflict sickness on sinners.
		Naunet and her male counterpart Nun formed part of the Ogdoad, eight divinities which personified the forces of chaos.
	www.angelfire.com /tx3/beannsidhe/egypt.html (1995 words)

	The Ogdoad of Hermopolis
		The Ogdoad, the Creation myth which originated here, consisted of eight personified primeval forces, conceived of as four couples of deities (the number four being the number of totality and completeness).
		The Ogdoad were 'the fathers and the mothers who came into being at the start, who gave birth to the sun and who created Atum'.
		The eight divinities of the Ogdoad are thought to jointly have created the Cosmic Egg out of the primeval waters (Nun).
	www.philae.nu /PerAnkh/Ogdoad.html (1222 words)

	Ogdoad
		The Ogdoad consist of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world.
		They are Nun and Naunet (the primordial water), Huh and Hauhet (infinite space), Kuk and Kauket (darkness), and Amun and Amaunet (representing hidden powers).
		The gods of the Ogdoad are represented as frogs or with the head of a frog; the goddesses in the shape of a snake or as a woman with the head of a snake.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/o/ogdoad.html (161 words)

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