| rdfs:comment | - The Egyptian pantheon is set up as a number of paired opposites given as god with godess consort to represent platonic ideals of a synthesis which allows them to become whatever it is they are going to be. A number of major deities are addressed as the creator of the cosmos. These include Atum, Ra, Amun and Ptah among others, as well as composite forms of these gods such as Amun-Re. Interacting with the supreme being of the Ogdoad was the elemental existence of the Ennead
- The Egyptian Pantheon or Ennead were the collective gods worshiped by the people of Egypt on the Southeast shore of the Mediterranean. Unlike the Olympians and Asgardians, they did not preside in an other-dimensional realm like Olympus or Asgard and instead presided on Earth with their worshippers, later departing Earth for Duat, the Egyptian afterlife. Unlike the Olympians, the Egyptian gods were not known for producing half-immortal children or demi-gods. Not much is known about their origins, but according to myths, they were descended from the ancient primeval god Atum, better known as Ra or Re. Atum sired the Ogdoad, the ancestral gods of Egypt, who lifted him up to heaven when his reign on Earth ended. Among the Ogdoad, Ammon-Ra ruled as chieftain as the Egyptian gods from Thebes. At
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| abstract | - The Egyptian pantheon is set up as a number of paired opposites given as god with godess consort to represent platonic ideals of a synthesis which allows them to become whatever it is they are going to be. A number of major deities are addressed as the creator of the cosmos. These include Atum, Ra, Amun and Ptah among others, as well as composite forms of these gods such as Amun-Re. This was not seen as contradictory by the Egyptians because the synthesis of all the individual paired opposites into one invisible, chaotic, dark, infinite supreme being was seen as having a number of attributes that could be thought of as becoming something else; enlightened, cosmic, solid, and eternal. In the natural philosophy of the Greeks and Mesopotamia's the first two Egyptian pairs are seen as the elements Air, (Shu) and Fire as (Tefnut) the eye of Ra the sun god; Earth, (Geb) and Water (Nu) are their children. As Earth Geb the son of Shu and Tefnut can range from dust to mud. As the eye of Ra Tefnut can give or withhold the moisture that inundates Geb and make him wet or dry. In her summers rage she can dry him up and harden his soil till it cracks, but during the inundation when she brings moisture to him in the form of Nu, the pair Geb and Nu become fertile.
* The Ogdoad of Hermopolis, eight deities who were worshiped in four female-male pairs; The females associated with snakes and the males with frogs:
* Amunvisible and solid and Amaunet ethereal and invisible,
* Nu a watery cosmos and Naunet, a dark chaos
* Kuk light and Kauket dark,
* Huh eternal and Hauhet infinite. Interacting with the supreme being of the Ogdoad was the elemental existence of the Ennead
* The Ennead of Heliopolis, meaning the nine - consisted of the pantheon of Atum's solidity
* Shu (air), and Tefnut(fire)
* Geb,(earth)Nut,(water)
* Osiris, the cyclical process of Becoming Isis, the beginning of the process
* Seth,established stability Nephthys,protector of change for the better
* The Ptah-Sekhmet-Nefertem triad of Memphis The development of Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom lead some early Egyptologists such as E.A. Wallis Budge to speculate that the Egyptians were in reality monotheistic. Others such as Sir Flinders Petrie considered the Egyptians to be polytheists. Erik Hornung argues that the best term to apply to their religion is 'henotheism' which describes 'worship of one god at a time but not a single god.' The Egyptian term for goddess was neṯeret (nṯrt; netjeret, nečeret) and the term for god was neṯer (nṯr; also transliterated netjer, nečer). The hieroglyph represents a pole or staff wrapped in cloth with the free end of the cloth shown at the top. The use of this sign has been connected to the flag poles at the entrance towers of Egyptian Temples. Alternative glyphs for gods include a star, a squatting human figure or a hawk on a perch.
- The Egyptian Pantheon or Ennead were the collective gods worshiped by the people of Egypt on the Southeast shore of the Mediterranean. Unlike the Olympians and Asgardians, they did not preside in an other-dimensional realm like Olympus or Asgard and instead presided on Earth with their worshippers, later departing Earth for Duat, the Egyptian afterlife. Unlike the Olympians, the Egyptian gods were not known for producing half-immortal children or demi-gods. Not much is known about their origins, but according to myths, they were descended from the ancient primeval god Atum, better known as Ra or Re. Atum sired the Ogdoad, the ancestral gods of Egypt, who lifted him up to heaven when his reign on Earth ended. Among the Ogdoad, Ammon-Ra ruled as chieftain as the Egyptian gods from Thebes. At Heliopolis, the gods Shu and Tefnut sired the Ennead, the ruling gods of Egypt, which included Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. It is not known how these events unfolded in the Xenaverse.
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