Ennead of heliopolis

“Ennead”, a Greek word that translates the Egyptian word “pesedjet”, “a group of nine”, is made by Atum, the creator God identified with Sun Ra, his children Shu and Tefrnut that formed the first divine couple, his nephew and niece Geb and Nut ant their children Osiris and Isis and Seth with Nefti, respectively the second and the third divine couple. To this great Ennead were added later by the theologians in Eliopoli, other two secondary Enneadi.
This was for a political aim: render Eliopoli not only a city of divine origin, but also a city that held a supremacy.
Actually the divinities of Eliopoli didn’t govern only from the sky, but each Ennead was shaped as a dynasty that before ascending to the heavenly thrones, had reigned on earth, exactly as the pharaoh who reached after death his ancestors.
The information we have about the Enneads come from the papyrus in Turin and from Manetone, but also from more ancient documents, as the texts of the Pyramids and they offer us sure proves of the fact that in the Ancient Reign, the possibility of an existence on earth of the members of the Great Ennead was admitted.
The second Ennead seems to include Horus, Isis’s and Osiris’s son, Anhur, Anubis, Khons, Horo of Edfu, Ammone, Thot, Shu and Amon-ra.
To this Ennead of half-gods, a third one followed made by Horo’s four children: Amset, Hapy, Duamutef and Qebesennuf and bu a new Horus, Khent Khiti and his four children.
The Ennead will become later a divine person whose limbs, one by one, will keep a distinct existence, forming nine persons in one.