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Group of eight
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ogdoad
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Wikipedia
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In Egyptian mythology , the Ogdoad (Greek "ογδοάς", the eightfold) were eight primordial deities worshipped in Hermopolis during what is called the Old Kingdom , the third through sixth dynasties, dated between 2686 to 2134 BC.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ogdoad \og"do*ad\ ([o^]g"d[-o]*[a^]d), n. [Gr. 'ogdoa`s, 'ogdoa`dos, from 'oktw` eight.] A thing made up of eight parts. --Milman.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thing made up of eight parts.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight , 8 , VIII , eighter , eighter from Decatur , octad , octonary , octet ]
Usage examples of ogdoad.
Reasoning in this way, the Egyptians naturally tended towards that conception of the divine oneness to which the theory of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad was already leading them.
Nuit, Hehu and Hehit, Kaku and Kakit, Ninu and Ninit, the god One and the god Eight, the Monad and the Ogdoad.