Thoth presides over the Ogdoad at Hermopolis as their lord and master, the ibis god who commands the eight primordial forces of chaos from which creation first stirred.
The eight primordial forces of the Ogdoad churned in the dark waters until their convergence produced the cosmic egg from which Atum emerged, the Hermopolitan tradition making the oldest gods midwives to the creator himself.
⚠ Some Hermopolitan variants describe a primeval mound rather than a cosmic egg as the site of Atum's emergence.
The Ogdoad of Hermopolis comprised eight primordial deities in four male-female pairs representing the pre-creation forces: Nun and Naunet (watery abyss), Amun and Amaunet (hiddenness), Kek and Kauket (darkness), and Heh and Hauhet (boundlessness).
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