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Geb (also spelled Seb, and Keb) was an important member of the Ennead, the pantheon of deities revered in ancient Lower Egypt. Geb represented ...

had admitted not only a Trinity, but even an Ennead (nine-fold personality). Damascius made considerable effort to express, in written language ...

decimal system. A group of nine is called an ennead. == Evolution of ... A group of nine of anything is called an ennead. In base 10, a number ...

beings were an emanation from the One (hen). In Ennead 5.1.6, emanation is compared to a diffusion from the One, in three primary stages: The One (hen ...

Genealogically, Set was a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis, the ... Ogdoad became more assimilated with the Ennead (due to the unification of ...

was formalized, Isis became one of the Ennead of Heliopolis, as a daughter ... consideration arose, that Isis, in the Ennead, was a child of Atum-Ra, ...

became considered part of what had been the Ennead. Since Atum had had no wife, having produced his children by masturbating, Hathor was easily inserted ...

If the deceased is judged worthy, the gods of the great Ennead respond thusly: Goelet :This utterance of yours is true. The vindicated Osiris ...

Following the merging of the Ennead and Ogdoad belief systems, Anubis became relegated to lesser status in the organization of the mythic underworld ...

In addition to Karnak, Thutmose I also built statues of the Ennead at Abydos, buildings at Armant, Ombos, el-Hiba, Memphis, and Edfu, as well ...

of Shu, and Tefnut, and the remainder of the Ennead (paralleling Amun's parentage of the Ogdoad), Amun-Ra was identified as the father of all ...

whom one chief god was hailed as supreme. For the Ennead of Heliopolis, the chief god was Atum; for the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, it was Ra; among the Chnum ...

is also described as a legal judgment before the Ennead, an assembled group of Egyptian deities, to decide who should inherit the kingship. The judge ...