These eight deities were the Hermopolitan ogdoad and appeared on an island rising from chaos.

In the Ogdoad cosmogony, his name meant darkness.

In the Ogdoad cosmogony, the word nu means "abyss".

Like the other Ogdoad deities, Nu did not have temples or any center of worship.

As such, its properties form the origin of the lotus variant of the Ogdoad cosmogeny.

As the personification of the concept of the primordial waters of creation in the Ogdoad theology, she had no gender.

Ptah-Tatenen can be seen as father of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, the eight gods who themselves embody the primeval elements from before creation.

The alternative titles are Discourse on the eighth and ninth(J.M.Robinson) or The ogdoad and ennead.

In any case an Ogdoad 7 + 1 would have been inconsistent with a theory an essential part of which was the coupling its characters in pairs, male and female.

And this son in like manner another, until there were seven Archons in all, ruling the seven heavens; a Hebdomad which their mother completes into an Ogdoad.

That these names are only a disguise for the Sancta Hebdomas is clear, for Sophia, the mother of them, retains the name of Ogdoad, Octonatio.

Osiris came to be seen as the guardian of the gates of Aaru after he became part of the Egyptian pantheon and displaced Anubis in the Ogdoad tradition.

Above the highest of them, and over-vaulting it, was the Ogdoad, the sphere of immutability, which was nigh to the spiritual world (Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata, iv.

This motif derives from the birth of Ra in the Ogdoad cosmogony, and the idea that as a crocodile, Sobek is the best suited to collecting items upon the Nile.

The doctrine of an Ogdoad of the commencement of finite existence having been established by Valentinus, those of his followers who had been imbued with the Pythagorean philosophy introduced a modification.

But was it not just possible that couched in the obscure mix of mathematics, physics and Egyptian mysticism ("ogdoad parity" refers to four pairs of gods with names like Darkness, Absence and Endlessness), there lay an important insight?

She might describe something as patibulary, fremescent, pharisaic, Roxburghe, or glockamoid, and words like mormal, jeropigia, endosmic, mage, palmerin, thos, vituline, Turonian, galingale, comprodor, nox, gaskin, secotine, ogdoad, and pintulary fled from her lips in Pierian saltarellos.

This very question, however, whether the first principle were to be regarded as single or twofold was one on which the Valentinians themselves were not agreed; and their differences as to the manner of counting the numbers of the primary Ogdoad confirm what has been said as to the later origin of this doctrine.

As seven is the number of the heavens, and eight is the supercelestial ogdoad, so six denotes the material creation (see also Heracleon); and, in particular, the material body through which the Saviour revealed Himself to men's senses, and conveyed to them that enlightenment of their ignorance in which redemption consisted.

This use of the words Hebdomad and Ogdoad also bears traces of derivation from a previous system, the word Ogdoad occurring in a different sense in the system of Valentinus himself, whose Ogdoad within the Pleroma was probably intended to answer to the Ogdoad outside.

Ogdoad only gets a very small commission for these indirect sales, though.

One example, is the theory of the Ogdoad, or the "primordial forces", from which all was formed.

In that city, he led the Ogdoad pantheon of eight principal deities.

The male deities in the Ogdoad generally were depicted with the head of a frog.

The mother, on the other hand, flees away into the upper regions and makes her dwelling there in the Ogdoad.

In the Ogdoad cosmogony, his name meant darkness.

The first eight of these Aeons, corresponding to generations one through four below, are referred to as the Ogdoad.

In the Ogdoad cosmogony, the word nu means "abyss".

Like the other Ogdoad deities, Nu did not have temples or any center of worship.

She is a member of the Ogdoad and the consort of Amun.

Beneath the Ogdoad is the Hebdomad presided over by its own archon.

The first four are called the Tetrad and the eight are called the Ogdoad.

This is what they call the Ogdoad, where the Great Archon is sitting.

The inherent qualities of the primeval waters were represented by a set of eight gods, called the Ogdoad.

The Ogdoad are the eight deities worshipped in Hermopolis.

These form the Ogdoad.

As such, its properties form the origin of the lotus variant of the Ogdoad cosmogeny.

The earliest Gnostic systems included a theory of seven heavens and a supercelestial region called the Ogdoad.

Over the Ogdoad is the Pleroma, the abode of the Aeons.

Of the eight celestial beings of the Ogdoad, four are peculiar to the Valentinian system.

One fragmentary tradition centers on the eight gods of the Ogdoad, who represent the characteristics of the primeval water itself.

Theban theology claimed that Amun was not merely a member of the Ogdoad, but the hidden force behind all things.

I. i.) eight primary Aeons constituting the first Ogdoad.

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad represents the eight primordial deities of creation.

A second text (titled On the Ogdoad and Ennead) told of the Hermetic mystery schools.