Story of Creation
"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.
The Egyptian cosmogony that is based on the Ogdoad of Heliopolis evolved over time. One version is that from the original chaos, the 4 sets of gods were motivated to get together to produce the sun or a primordial mass (in Hermopolis, of course). This may have produced to a cosmic egg (sometimes a goose egg laid by the Great Cackler or an ibis egg from Thoth) from which hatched the sun god. Amun or Thoth is credited with stirring up the old gods to create the primordial mass. The Ogdoad then fades into the background or dies and lives in the Underworld. Even though the deities are, in a sense, retired, they still make the sun rise and the Nile flow. In another version, a lotus emerged from the waters, opened up, and revealed, again, the sun god. Thus the sun god is an essential feature for the creation of a world with living creatures.
The Ogdoad of Hermopolis provides a cosmogony without a tale of divine inter-generational fighting (theomachy)." - Ogdoad of Hermopolis
The Ogdoad is the oldest known story of creation and has origins linking back to the creation stories from the Golden Age of Atlantis and taught to the "new world" after its destruction. The story is the basis of Hermeticism, as it is said to go back to the days of story telling and is said to be the first written account of the creation of not just humanity, the sun, moon, stars, galaxy or the universe. Every God and Goddess in every creation story since the Ogdoad and its "updated version, the Egyptian Ennead, can be traced, linked and identified in this first account of creation. This is the story of how all things came to be told by the One known as the ageless and timeless one. The One who has lived since the moment of creation. He is known as Amun, Shu, Djehuti, Thoth...
HERMES.
The Egyptian cosmogony that is based on the Ogdoad of Heliopolis evolved over time. One version is that from the original chaos, the 4 sets of gods were motivated to get together to produce the sun or a primordial mass (in Hermopolis, of course). This may have produced to a cosmic egg (sometimes a goose egg laid by the Great Cackler or an ibis egg from Thoth) from which hatched the sun god. Amun or Thoth is credited with stirring up the old gods to create the primordial mass. The Ogdoad then fades into the background or dies and lives in the Underworld. Even though the deities are, in a sense, retired, they still make the sun rise and the Nile flow. In another version, a lotus emerged from the waters, opened up, and revealed, again, the sun god. Thus the sun god is an essential feature for the creation of a world with living creatures.
The Ogdoad of Hermopolis provides a cosmogony without a tale of divine inter-generational fighting (theomachy)." - Ogdoad of Hermopolis
The Ogdoad is the oldest known story of creation and has origins linking back to the creation stories from the Golden Age of Atlantis and taught to the "new world" after its destruction. The story is the basis of Hermeticism, as it is said to go back to the days of story telling and is said to be the first written account of the creation of not just humanity, the sun, moon, stars, galaxy or the universe. Every God and Goddess in every creation story since the Ogdoad and its "updated version, the Egyptian Ennead, can be traced, linked and identified in this first account of creation. This is the story of how all things came to be told by the One known as the ageless and timeless one. The One who has lived since the moment of creation. He is known as Amun, Shu, Djehuti, Thoth...
HERMES.
Thoth
"“Thoth and Maat record your moments every day.”
"Thoth is thought. He is reason. He is the archetype of human intellect, of mind, of curiosity, of logic, of rationale, imagination andunderstanding. Thoth is the source and the repository of learning, knowledge and training. Thoth is science. Thoth is the genius of the Powt Nature. He is the mind of the soul/self. Thoth is known as The Self-created One. He was already present in the beginning of creation, along with Maat, the reality of Reality. Thoth is the ability of consciousness to learn and thus to know reality. He is the capacity of the human intellect to observe and to measure the reality around us and within us. Thoth and Maat stand on either side of Re in the journey of the sunship.
Thoth is more than the scribe of the Natures and the Nature of scribes. Thoth is speech. He is writing. He is everything that is made possible by human communication and by the permanence of the written word. Egyptians understood that the written word is the power of civilization." - Thoth In Your Mind
""Thoth is the name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Djeheuty. Thoth was the god of wisdom, inventor of writing, patron of scribes and the divine mediator. He is most often represented as a man with the head of an ibis, holding a scribal palette and reed pen. He could also be shown completely as an ibis or a baboon...
Thoth is a reliable mediator and peacemaker. When the goddess Tefnut had a dispute with her father Re and absconded to Nubia, it was Thoth that the sun-god sent to reason with her and bring her home. Thoth was also present at the judgement of the dead. He would question the deceased before recording the result of the weighing of the deceased's heart. If the result was favorable Thoth would declare the deceased as a righteous individual who was worthy of a blessed afterlife.
Thoth was also a lunar deity, and whatever form he took he wore a lunar crescent on his head. Some Egyptologists think that the Egyptians identified the crescent moon with the curved beak of the ibis. It is also suggested that the Egyptians observed that baboon was a nocturnal (i.e. lunar) animal who would greet the sun with chattering noises each morning.
As he was messenger of the gods Thoth was identified by the Greeks with their own god Hermes. For this reason Thoth's center of worship is still known to us today as Hermopolis." - Encyclopedia Mythica
"Thoth is thought. He is reason. He is the archetype of human intellect, of mind, of curiosity, of logic, of rationale, imagination andunderstanding. Thoth is the source and the repository of learning, knowledge and training. Thoth is science. Thoth is the genius of the Powt Nature. He is the mind of the soul/self. Thoth is known as The Self-created One. He was already present in the beginning of creation, along with Maat, the reality of Reality. Thoth is the ability of consciousness to learn and thus to know reality. He is the capacity of the human intellect to observe and to measure the reality around us and within us. Thoth and Maat stand on either side of Re in the journey of the sunship.
Thoth is more than the scribe of the Natures and the Nature of scribes. Thoth is speech. He is writing. He is everything that is made possible by human communication and by the permanence of the written word. Egyptians understood that the written word is the power of civilization." - Thoth In Your Mind
""Thoth is the name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Djeheuty. Thoth was the god of wisdom, inventor of writing, patron of scribes and the divine mediator. He is most often represented as a man with the head of an ibis, holding a scribal palette and reed pen. He could also be shown completely as an ibis or a baboon...
Thoth is a reliable mediator and peacemaker. When the goddess Tefnut had a dispute with her father Re and absconded to Nubia, it was Thoth that the sun-god sent to reason with her and bring her home. Thoth was also present at the judgement of the dead. He would question the deceased before recording the result of the weighing of the deceased's heart. If the result was favorable Thoth would declare the deceased as a righteous individual who was worthy of a blessed afterlife.
Thoth was also a lunar deity, and whatever form he took he wore a lunar crescent on his head. Some Egyptologists think that the Egyptians identified the crescent moon with the curved beak of the ibis. It is also suggested that the Egyptians observed that baboon was a nocturnal (i.e. lunar) animal who would greet the sun with chattering noises each morning.
As he was messenger of the gods Thoth was identified by the Greeks with their own god Hermes. For this reason Thoth's center of worship is still known to us today as Hermopolis." - Encyclopedia Mythica
So, who exactly is Hermes?
"Hermes was the herald, or messenger, of the gods to humans... A patron of boundaries and the travelers who cross them." - Wikipedia
"The history of His life is described in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean, which were discovered by M.Doreal in the pyramids of South America. In the Tablets Thoth tells about Atlantis — an archipelago consisting of two large islands which existed in the Atlantic Ocean a long time ago, also about the highly developed civilization of the Atlanteans. The most important point about this civilization is that it possessed a true religious-philosophical knowledge, which allowed many people to advance quickly in their development to the Divine level and accomplish thus their personal human evolution.
When the destruction of Atlantis happened (two islands submerged into the ocean one after another according to the Divine Will), Thoth-the-Atlantean moved to Egypt (Khem) with a group of other Divine Atlanteans. Thanks to this, the higher spiritual knowledge of Atlantis was brought to Egypt and to other countries.
In the Egyptian mythology, Thoth is worshipped as a God of wisdom and writing, as a patron of sciences, scribes, holy scriptures, as a creator of the calendar. According to Plato, He revealed to the Egyptians counting, geometry, astronomy, and writing.
Hermes Trismegistus is the name of Thoth in His next incarnation in Egypt." - God Teaches
"We interpret Hermes as a figure associated with wisdom transmitted to man from divine sources. Historically, the name Hermes referred to several different personages:
The mystic figure, Thrice-Great Hemes, who may have represented three different teachers in the Illuminist tradition described as a very powerful ancient mage, not a god in his writings, collectively called the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes describes himself as "Philosopher, Priest, and King" wrote the Emerald Tablet and taught Pythagoras, among other exploits.
In his major work, The Sufis, Idries Shah states that "both the Sufis and the alchemists claim Hermes as an initiate of their craft." Many Sufis, including al-Farabi, Geber, and Roger Bacon, among others, were described as "Hermetic" or "Illuminist."
Hermeticism is one of the many streams of transmission of the Illuminist Tradition, the inner, secret teaching concealed within every genuine religion and philosophy." - The Light Party
"The history of His life is described in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean, which were discovered by M.Doreal in the pyramids of South America. In the Tablets Thoth tells about Atlantis — an archipelago consisting of two large islands which existed in the Atlantic Ocean a long time ago, also about the highly developed civilization of the Atlanteans. The most important point about this civilization is that it possessed a true religious-philosophical knowledge, which allowed many people to advance quickly in their development to the Divine level and accomplish thus their personal human evolution.
When the destruction of Atlantis happened (two islands submerged into the ocean one after another according to the Divine Will), Thoth-the-Atlantean moved to Egypt (Khem) with a group of other Divine Atlanteans. Thanks to this, the higher spiritual knowledge of Atlantis was brought to Egypt and to other countries.
In the Egyptian mythology, Thoth is worshipped as a God of wisdom and writing, as a patron of sciences, scribes, holy scriptures, as a creator of the calendar. According to Plato, He revealed to the Egyptians counting, geometry, astronomy, and writing.
Hermes Trismegistus is the name of Thoth in His next incarnation in Egypt." - God Teaches
"We interpret Hermes as a figure associated with wisdom transmitted to man from divine sources. Historically, the name Hermes referred to several different personages:
- The Greek god Hermes, son of Zeus and Maia messenger for Zeus god of commerce and the market; patron of traders, merchants and thieves the Divine Herald who leads dead souls down to the underworld inventor of the lyre, the pipes, the musical scale, astronomy, weights and measures, boxing, gymnastics and the care of olive trees
- Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom and science the moon-god, represented in ancient paintings as ibis-headed with the disc and crescent of the moon the god of letters and the recording of time
- The Roman god, Mercury, messenger of the gods messenger for Zeus had winged sandals, a winged hat, and a golden Caduceus, or magic wand, with entwined snakes and rising wings believed to possess magical powers over sleep and dreams
The mystic figure, Thrice-Great Hemes, who may have represented three different teachers in the Illuminist tradition described as a very powerful ancient mage, not a god in his writings, collectively called the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes describes himself as "Philosopher, Priest, and King" wrote the Emerald Tablet and taught Pythagoras, among other exploits.
In his major work, The Sufis, Idries Shah states that "both the Sufis and the alchemists claim Hermes as an initiate of their craft." Many Sufis, including al-Farabi, Geber, and Roger Bacon, among others, were described as "Hermetic" or "Illuminist."
Hermeticism is one of the many streams of transmission of the Illuminist Tradition, the inner, secret teaching concealed within every genuine religion and philosophy." - The Light Party
Hermes in Greek "Mythology"
"Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is the son of Zeus and the nymph Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of the Pleiades. Hermes is the god of shepherds, land travel, merchants, weights and measures, oratory, literature, athletics and thieves, and known for his cunning and shrewdness. Most importantly, he is the messenger of the gods. Besides that he was also a minor patron of poetry. He was worshiped throughout Greece -- especially in Arcadia -- and festivals in his honor were called Hermoea.
Being the herald (messenger of the gods), it was his duty to guide the souls of the dead down to the underworld, which is known as a psychopomp. He was also closely connected with bringing dreams to mortals. Hermes is usually depicted with a broad-brimmed hat or a winged cap, winged sandals and the heralds staff (kerykeion in Greek, or Caduceus in Latin). It was often shown as a shaft with two white ribbons, although later they were represented by serpents intertwined in a figure of eight shape, and the shaft often had wings attached. The clothes he donned were usually that of a traveler, or that of a workman or shepherd.
Known for his swiftness and athleticism, Hermes was given credit for inventing foot-racing and boxing. At Olympia a statue of him stood at the entrance to the stadium and his statues where in every gymnasium throughout Greece. Apart from herms, Hermes was a popular subject for artists. Both painted pottery and statuary show him in various forms, but the most fashionable depicted him as a good-looking young man, with an athletic body, and winged sandals and his heralds staff. His Roman counterpart Mercury inherited his attributes, and there are many Roman copies of Greek artistic creations of Hermes.
The Greek post office has Hermes as its symbol." - Encyclopedia Mythica
Being the herald (messenger of the gods), it was his duty to guide the souls of the dead down to the underworld, which is known as a psychopomp. He was also closely connected with bringing dreams to mortals. Hermes is usually depicted with a broad-brimmed hat or a winged cap, winged sandals and the heralds staff (kerykeion in Greek, or Caduceus in Latin). It was often shown as a shaft with two white ribbons, although later they were represented by serpents intertwined in a figure of eight shape, and the shaft often had wings attached. The clothes he donned were usually that of a traveler, or that of a workman or shepherd.
Known for his swiftness and athleticism, Hermes was given credit for inventing foot-racing and boxing. At Olympia a statue of him stood at the entrance to the stadium and his statues where in every gymnasium throughout Greece. Apart from herms, Hermes was a popular subject for artists. Both painted pottery and statuary show him in various forms, but the most fashionable depicted him as a good-looking young man, with an athletic body, and winged sandals and his heralds staff. His Roman counterpart Mercury inherited his attributes, and there are many Roman copies of Greek artistic creations of Hermes.
The Greek post office has Hermes as its symbol." - Encyclopedia Mythica
Here's the story...
The Ogdoad
"Hermopolis means “the city of Hermes” in Greek. The Greeks gave it that name because it was a major cult centre of the god Thoth who they associated with their god Hermes, but the Egyptians knew it as Khmunu (“the City of the Eight”).
The Ogdoad was a system of eight deities, four gods and their consorts (the number four was considered to represent completeness). Each pair represented the male and female aspects of the four creative powers or sources. Nun and Naunet represented the primeval waters; Heh and Hauhet represented eternity;Kuk and Kauket represented darkness; and Amun and Amaunet represented air (or that which is hidden). The gods were all depicted with frog´s heads, while the goddesses had the heads of serpents. Only Amun went on to be considered as more than a primeval force. While Nun was still referred to often, it was only as the representation of the waters of Chaos.
These eight elements interacted causing an explosion (the Big Bang?) and the burst of energy which was released caused the primeval mound (located at Hermopolis, but originally known as the “Isle of Flame”) to rise from the water. It was thought. The gods and goddesses of the Ogdoad then ruled the earth during the Golden Age. When they died they took up residence in the “Duat” (or “Tuat” – the Underworld). The ensured that the Nile continued to flow, that the inundation would come every year and caused the sun to rise each day.
There are four central creation myths. The first held that the world was born from a cosmic egg created by the gods of the Ogdoad. It was invisible as the sun had not yet been born. When it opened, it revealed the “bird of light”, an aspect of the sun god Re (occasionally the egg was said to contain air, associated with Amun and Amaunet). Alternatively, the egg was laid by a celestial goose called the Gengen Wer (the primeval goose who was associated with Amun who took this form as a creator god). When Re hatched from the egg, he created the world and everything in it. The second version says that the egg was laid by an ibis, (a bird sacred to Thoth). However, the cult of Thoth developed after the original myth of the Ogdoad, so it is probable that this story was an attempt to incorporate Thoth into the pre-existing Ogdoad (who were sometimes known as “the souls of Thoth”).
The third myth states that a lotus flower emerged from the waters of “the Sea of the Two Knives” (a lake near to the temple in Hermopolis). The petals opened to reveal Re who then created the world. The fourth myth is similar, except it held that a scarab beetle (Khepri – the symbol of the rising sun) was revealed when the petals opened. The scarab transformed into a young boy whose tears formed the first human beings. The boy is generally considered to be Nefertem (“young Atum”) but once Re and Horus had been merged as Re-Horakhty the boy was sometimes considered to be the infant Horus.
The Hermopolitans claimed that their theory of creation was older than any other in Egypt and that it was the Ogdoad who gave birth to both the sun and Atum. It is also interesting to note the similarity between the Ogdoad and the description of the creation of the world found in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament)." - Temple of Alexandria
The Ogdoad was a system of eight deities, four gods and their consorts (the number four was considered to represent completeness). Each pair represented the male and female aspects of the four creative powers or sources. Nun and Naunet represented the primeval waters; Heh and Hauhet represented eternity;Kuk and Kauket represented darkness; and Amun and Amaunet represented air (or that which is hidden). The gods were all depicted with frog´s heads, while the goddesses had the heads of serpents. Only Amun went on to be considered as more than a primeval force. While Nun was still referred to often, it was only as the representation of the waters of Chaos.
These eight elements interacted causing an explosion (the Big Bang?) and the burst of energy which was released caused the primeval mound (located at Hermopolis, but originally known as the “Isle of Flame”) to rise from the water. It was thought. The gods and goddesses of the Ogdoad then ruled the earth during the Golden Age. When they died they took up residence in the “Duat” (or “Tuat” – the Underworld). The ensured that the Nile continued to flow, that the inundation would come every year and caused the sun to rise each day.
There are four central creation myths. The first held that the world was born from a cosmic egg created by the gods of the Ogdoad. It was invisible as the sun had not yet been born. When it opened, it revealed the “bird of light”, an aspect of the sun god Re (occasionally the egg was said to contain air, associated with Amun and Amaunet). Alternatively, the egg was laid by a celestial goose called the Gengen Wer (the primeval goose who was associated with Amun who took this form as a creator god). When Re hatched from the egg, he created the world and everything in it. The second version says that the egg was laid by an ibis, (a bird sacred to Thoth). However, the cult of Thoth developed after the original myth of the Ogdoad, so it is probable that this story was an attempt to incorporate Thoth into the pre-existing Ogdoad (who were sometimes known as “the souls of Thoth”).
The third myth states that a lotus flower emerged from the waters of “the Sea of the Two Knives” (a lake near to the temple in Hermopolis). The petals opened to reveal Re who then created the world. The fourth myth is similar, except it held that a scarab beetle (Khepri – the symbol of the rising sun) was revealed when the petals opened. The scarab transformed into a young boy whose tears formed the first human beings. The boy is generally considered to be Nefertem (“young Atum”) but once Re and Horus had been merged as Re-Horakhty the boy was sometimes considered to be the infant Horus.
The Hermopolitans claimed that their theory of creation was older than any other in Egypt and that it was the Ogdoad who gave birth to both the sun and Atum. It is also interesting to note the similarity between the Ogdoad and the description of the creation of the world found in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament)." - Temple of Alexandria