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Abstract The company of Nine Gods originally at Heliopolis consisting of the sun-god creator and his descendants. This was headed by Re or Re-Atum followed by Shu and Tefnut, the deities of air and moisture; Geb and Nut who represented earth and sky, and Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. They were called the offspring of Atum with Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, who does not in fact belong to the earlier Ennead. The Ennead are identified in a semantic depends especially on the strength and gentleness maintained by their mutual characteristics of ferocity; this is evidently proved throughout their different forms, illustrated on the wall scenes, as well as on some funerary equipment including coffins, papyri and funerary stelae. Moreover some iconography and various inscribed names of these deities are detected on the walls of some temples and tombs. |