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by Frauke Pumpenmeier In contrast to the Bible, the imaginary worlds of ancient Egypt did not have a single creation myth, but a whole series of cosmogonies, i.e. stories about the origin of the universe. These cosmogonies are associated with…

by Johannes Dickhaut The earliest evidence of the presence of a Christian community in Hermopolis Magna has been preserved in the form of literary papyri from the 3rd century and documentary papyri from the 4th century AD. An important clue…

by Korbinian Ring The Eight of Hermopolis (or Ogdoad) and its history is one of the great local cosmogonies of the New Kingdom. Eight primordial deities – four gods with snake heads and four goddesses with frog heads, each appearing…