ogdoad means the group of eight primordial deities worshipped at Hermopolis in Ancient Egyptian times: Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, and Hauhet and Huh. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
ogdoad is pronounced /ˈɒɡ.dəʊ.æd/.
Why “ogdoad” is a great word
OGDOAD — [Noun] A group or set of eight, specifically the eight primordial deities of Egyptian Hermopolitan cosmology who constituted the chaotic essence of the world before creation. From Late Latin ogdoas, from Ancient Greek ὀγδοάς (ogdoás, 'a group of eight'), from ὄγδοος (ógdoos, 'eighth'), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, 'eight'). First attested in English 1615–25. Unlike an 'octet'—a general, often artistic, ensemble of eight—or a 'pantheon'—the collected totality of a culture's gods—an ogdoad is a precise theological unit of four complementary pairs: darkness and its depth, infinity and its formlessness, the hidden and its potential, the air and its secrecy. It is the dark water before light, the infinite before a horizon, the silent, coupled breath in the void—the patient, eternal eight from which all singular things must painfully emerge.
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- The group of eight primordial deities worshipped at Hermopolis in Ancient Egyptian times: Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, and Hauhet and Huh.
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- A thing made up of eight parts.“Probably these, as in the other systems, made the second Ogdoad; and these, with other astral influence, borrowed from the Tsabaism of the region, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the thirty-six Decani”