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The Ennead


Nut Arched over

The ancient Egyptian creation myth involves the deities better known as the Ennead or the Nine Gods of the Heliopolis. One of the first to come into existence was Ra-Atum. He was born from a mound and had the idea of multiplicity in his heart. So upon masturbation, he took his own semen into his mouth and spat it out, thus creating the 1 st male and female named Shu, the god of air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. One day Shu and Tefnut wandered off to explore the dark Nun and got lost in doing so. Ra-Atum was frantic so he sent out his divine Eye, a fiery power regarded as the sun god's daughter, to look for them. When he was finally reunited with Shu and Tefnut, his tears of joy then created the first human beings.

Shu and Tefnut came together and created Geb, the earth god as well as Nut, the sky goddess. They embraced so tightly that nothing could ever exist between them so when Nut became pregnant, the child could not be born. They were eventually separated by their father to make space for living beings and air to breathe.

It is said that the sky goddess, Nut, sometimes takes the form of a naked woman arched above the earth and that she swallowed the sun every evening. It is even rumored that she wanted to swallow all of her children as well. Nut gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. It is said that Osiris and Isis fell in love while still in the womb while Nephthys despised Seth. Osiris was destined to rule over Egypt as the oldest sun of Geb and Nut.