Ogdoad (Egyptian)
Group of 8 deities in Ancient Egyptian religion / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the deities in Egyptian mythology. For the concept in Gnosticism, see Ogdoad (Gnosticism).
In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad (Ancient Greek: ὀγδοάς "the Eightfold"; Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnyw, a plural nisba of ḫmnw "eight") were eight primordial deities worshiped in Hermopolis.
The earliest certain reference to the Ogdoad is from the Eighteenth Dynasty, in a dedicatory inscription by Hatshepsut at the Speos Artemidos.[2]
Texts of the Late Period describe them as having the heads of frogs (male) and serpents (female), and they are often depicted in this way in reliefs of the last dynasty, the Ptolemaic Kingdom.[3]