- The
concept of an
Ogdoad (Gr****: ὀγδοάς)
appears in
Gnostic systems of the
early Christian era, and was
further developed by the
theologian Valentinus...
- In
Egyptian mythology, the
Ogdoad (Ancient Gr****: ὀγδοάς "the Eightfold";
Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnyw, a
plural nisba of ḫmnw "eight") were
eight primordial...
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Ogdoad may
refer to:
Ogdoad (Egyptian)
Ogdoad (Gnosticism) Ogdoades, a work of
history by
Guillaume du
Bellay Tonality diamond This
disambiguation page...
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concept of
primordial darkness in the
ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis. The
Ogdoad consisted of four
pairs of deities, four male gods paired...
-
creation to
different gods: the set of
eight primordial deities called the
Ogdoad, the
contemplative deity Ptah, and the mysterious,
transcendent god Amun...
- Hehu[citation needed]) was the
personification of
infinity or
eternity in the
Ogdoad in
ancient Egyptian religion. His name
originally meant "flood", referring...
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which the
creator sun god Ra arose. Nu is one of the
eight deities of the
Ogdoad representing ancient Egyptian primordial Chaos from
which the primordial...
- is a
feminine noun that
means "The
Hidden One". She is a
member of the
Ogdoad of Hermopolis, who
represented aspects of the
primeval existence before...
- the
contemporaneous city of
Hermopolis had
another creation story, the
Ogdoad, that
accounted for the
physical creation of the
universe by
eight (different)...
- Huh (god), the
deification of
eternity in the
Egyptian mythology of the
Ogdoad Hu (Sufism), a name for God Hu (ritual baton), an
early Chinese writing...
