(Pallina60Loon/ CC BY 2.0 )Īnother belief is that the universe was created from a lotus flower that "rose from the Sea of the Two Knives". This form of the sun was called Ra, one of the only Egyptian deities to have surpassed the laws of time to be accepted by both the followers of the Ogdoad and the later religion, and thus the world was born.Īrtistic interpretation of the World Egg of the Ogdoad. It was considered to be invisible at the time, because before creation there was no sun, until the day that it hatched when from it exuded the brilliant golden light that they had been waiting for. The first was that the Ogdoad created an egg from which the world was born. There are at minimum three different views from the Egyptians that succeeded the time of the Ogdoad as to how the world as they knew it came into creation. However, because of the distance between the Old Kingdom and the present, the record of their time as creators of the universe is inconsistent and contradictory-as most ancient tales are. These celestial couples existed before the creation of man, and were considered by the ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom to have been directly responsible for the creation of the new world as well as its upkeep.
In the early Christian era, the idea of Ogdoad also appears in Gnostic belief. Each pair correlated with one of the primary elements of the universe in the Egyptian belief system, i.e., water, air, light, and time.
Considered to have come into creation before the world did, the Ogdoad consist of four couples-eight individual deities-who balance one another and the nature of the cosmos. Though their power among the Egyptian people was most widely recognized between 2686 – 2134 BCE-in the Old Kingdom settlement of Hermopolis (so named by the Greeks as they equated Thoth with messenger god Hermes)-traces of their pantheon permeated down to the next set of gods, correlating the formation of the human race with the hands of the Ogdoad.Īs stated above, the Ogdoad predate the more commonly known Egyptian gods, such as Osiris, his sister wife Isis, and the emissary of the underworld, Anubis. Considered to have come long before the Egyptian religious system currently recognized, the Ogdoad were concerned with the preservation and flourishing of the celestial world, and later-as well as indirectly-the formation of the human race. These Infinite Threads picks up at the explosive cliff-hanger ending of the New York Times bestselling novel This Woven Kingdom, and is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tomi Adeyemi, and Sabaa Tahir.The Ogdoad, also called the Hehu or Infinites, were the celestial rulers of a cosmic age. When he falls in love with Alizeh and subsequently learns her true identity, he must question everything he’s been taught about Jinn and their future in his kingdom. Kamran is the heir to the human throne, and he’s being pressured to marry before he becomes king.
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Alizeh is the heir to the Jinn throne and fulfills a long-foretold prophecy of a Jinn sovereign destined to free her people from the half The second book in an epic, romantic fantasy trilogy based on Persian folklore, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Cassandra Clare called “exquisitely crafted,” by bestselling and National Book Award–nominated author Tahereh Mafi.Īlizeh is the heir to the Jinn throne and fulfills a long-foretold prophecy of a Jinn sovereign destined to free her people from the half-lives they’ve been forced to live under the rule of humans. The second book in an epic, romantic fantasy trilogy based on Persian folklore, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Cassandra Clare called “exquisitely crafted,” by bestselling and National Book Award–nominated author Tahereh Mafi.
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