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Showing posts with label Nun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nun. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2013

Ogdoad of Hermopolis

Definition: The Ogdoad of Hermopolis was the group of gods who created the world, or at least the sun, according to Egyptian mythology centered in Hermopolis Magna. The Ennead of Heliopolis is a contrasting grouping of 9 creating Heliopolitan gods. A third cosmogony is the Memphis Theology, which is centered on the god Ptah.

Since the Ogdoad of Hermopolis is an Ogdoad, there are 8 deities, in 4 pairs of males and females. Their functions may be described as chaos and generation, eternity, darkness, and moisture, or as invisibility, endlessness, obscurity, and water, all perhaps in a primeval watery chaos. The pairs are spelled out in English as Amun and Amaunet, Heh (Huh) and Hehet, Kek and Keket, and Nun and Naunet, although spelling varies. Sometimes in later representations, the male (the first in each pair) is depicted as frog-headed and the female with a snake head, all generated spontaneously from the Nile mud.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Muzeul Oului din Vama - Bucovina

Oul este minunea de inceput a lumii, Brancusi spunand despre ou ca este "maica tuturor formelor". Oul este inceputul si sfarsitul. Oul a sintetizat misterul Creatiunii; dintr-un ou trebuie sa se fi nascut Universul, Lumea, deci si omul. Oul cosmic trebuie presupus la baza credintei tuturor popoarelor din lume", marturiseste Artur Gorovei intr-un studiu despre folclor.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Potopul lui Noe - la Marea Neagră

Legenda unui potop trimis de Dumnezeu sau de zei pentru a distruge o civilizaţie, ca un act de pedeapsă divină, este o temă care se regăseşte în miturile multor popoare.

Potopul apare de la sumerieni, în Epopeea lui Ghilgameş, până la egipteni (când lumea era inundată de Nun, zeul Nilului), de la Deucalion (atunci când Zeus și Poseidon au trimis potopul asupra lumii) până în Biblie.