Ennead

the cults believe their temple is where the primeval mound lies. Not to mention, to lessen the greatness of Heliopolitan’s Atum, they replaced Atum with Horus, who became the new “ancient” sun god and Thoth became the moon-god and the god of wisdom. It is said, that Ptah created the physical world, the gods and all the good things in the world. Ptah also created who they were, the places where their cults practiced, founded their shrines and the forms/images they were worshipped in. However, the Shabaka Stone never explained the exact details of how things came to be, only that Ptah was the supreme ruler that created everything. Hermopolitan cosmogony was only believed and practiced in a city in upper Egypt. Instead of the Heliopolitan’s Ennead, they had an Ogdoad (group of eight) (Ions). The eight gods were Nun and his consort Naunet, Huh and his consort Hauhet, Kuk and his consort Kauket and Amon and his consort Amaunet. They created and ruled the world until they completed their work of creation. These 4 pairs had different powers, Nun and Naunet controlled water, Huh and Hauhet controlled unendingness, Kuk and Kauket controlled darkness and Amon and Amaunet controlled air. The world like the other two cosmogony started with Nun, but it is emphasized that the water was stagnant and only with the help of Amon, air, the world would be created. Together, they set in motion the power of creation. Surprisingly, unlike the other gods, these gods died, yet they only went to the…

Chafizadeh and Olivia Citro Theology : The Problem Of Evil Shams Inati Plotinus, Enneads, First Ennead, 8th Tractate Our presentation was on Plotinus, Enneads, First Ennead, 8th Tractate. The Enneads which is fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry. We focused on the First Ennead and the 8th Tractate, which is "On the Nature and Source of Evil". The part that I, Lindsay Chafizadeh, focused mainly on throughout the…

In Plotinus’s first ennead, On Beauty, he attempts to define the true meaning of and discover the origin of beauty. What exactly is the source of beauty? How is it that such different things can all be considered to be beautiful? What is it that makes a human being beautiful, and how is it defined? Through an analysis of past claims of understanding beauty, Plotinus offers up his own unique view on what exactly, if anything, defines it. Plotinus first calls attention to the diversity among…

Atum Atum had a very important role in the everyday lives of the ancient Egyptians. For example since they have Atum they can live in Egypt. The ancient Egyptians believed that Atum was the first god. His role was creation and the first sun god. Also at times he was associated with the Ra, the supreme solar god. Adding on Atum created all of the other gods. So, when Atum did this it gave the Egyptians a chance to have other gods to pray for that specialized in certain things. Like, Horus the…

Ani’s heart lays within a canopic jar and is being weighed against Maat’s feather of truth. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of emotions, intellect, will and morality; without it resurrection in the afterlife would be impossible . In this scene, the god Anubis sits to the right of the balance pole checking the scales in the presence of Ani’s ba and the figures Shai , Meshkenet and Renenet. The scribe god Thoth stands over the proceedings and records the outcome. His…

agriculture which was rich in soil due to the Euphrates and Tigris river, and praising the god in the Ziggurats. Religion affected how people married, the expectation was that the women were to be pure until marriage. Mesopotamia invented the first writings, and in their texts, it explained how women were to be veiled. They also had a strict family system, due to the discipline of religion, sons and daughters could not live their father's house until marriage. The monotheistic religions of…

However as time passed the nature of their relationship changed. Set was the symbolic God of disorder and chaos, while Horus was the symbolic God of order. Horus represented daytime sky, while Set represented the nighttime sky. In early times the two were seen as being in a state of balance in which Horus and Set represented upper and lower Egypt. Often they were depicted together to symbolize the union of the upper and lower Egypt representation. After time Horus was often considered to be…

These traits represented kingship and a god of fertility. Being part of the Heliopolian Ennead, he was the brother to Seth and Isis. Both he and Isis were the parents to Horus. He was a funerary god, and his myth tells the story of how he became the first person to have died and be brought back to life as a mummy through magic. The “Osiris Myth” begins with Seth killing Osiris, potentially due to his envy for Osiris’ kingship or marriage to Isis. Seth cuts his body into pieces and throws them…

not be detracted from its sheath. Raise thyself up N. Thou sees thy districts, the Horite, likewise their incredible houses thou sees thy areas, the Setite, additionally their awesome houses. Thou hast discharged thy groups, as Horus who is in his home thou hast drawn thy bonds, similar to Set, who is in Ḥn.t. I have liberated thee from Hr.ti he lives in the hearts of men one have not given allowed thee to come back to the desert. Thou hast said, "Hail, this my defender, as Isis welcome to thee,…

respective ruler, much like the gods from the story. General Sisi would be Horus, the one followed and accepted by most of the people. Seth would then be president Morsi, the “liar” and the one unworthy to be in power. Whether or not Morsi was a liar, according to the people, he was not acting in the way Ma’at, which is the way of truth and order. So, according to ancient beliefs, he would be considered a liar and destructive force. Also to bolster the comparison, Morsi is taken away and held in…