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- noun The group of eight primordial deities worshipped at Hermopolis in Ancient Egyptian times (Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, Hauhet and Huh)
Etymologies
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In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are the eight deities worshipped in Hermopolis.
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And hence they give forth that the Ogdoad is the mother of the thirty AEons.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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[2844] Referring to the word Chreistos, according to Harvey, who remarks, that "generally the Ogdoad was the receptacle of the spiritual seed."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Huller has suggested that the name Simon Magus comes from the Hebrew shemoneh meaning 8 and the Gnostic fascination with the magical number 8, the Ogdoad.
Mythicism and John the Baptist James F. McGrath 2010
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The dualities of the Egyptian Ogdoad which gives us eight forces of four principles -- the Chaos and the Void, the Formless and the Hidden -- in male and female aspects, represent a recognition that order is merely the emergence of the dialectic from the chaotic.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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They proclaim to us, like the writer referred to, that from this (Ogdoad) came the creation of the world and the formation of man, maintaining that they alone are acquainted with these ineffable and unknown mysteries.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Thus, then, the whole number of the letters proceeding from the Ogdoad
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Ogdoad, the root and substance of all things, called among them by four names, viz.,
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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And they say that the Ogdoad is indicated by man in this way: that he possesses two ears, the like number of eyes, also two nostrils, and a twofold taste, namely, of bitter and sweet.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Moreover, they declare that this invisible and spiritual Pleroma of theirs is tripartite, being divided into an Ogdoad, a Decad, and a Duodecad.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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