Enneade of Eliopoli

	ATUM - RA
	SHU <--------> TEFNUT
	GEB <--------> NUT
ISIS<-------->OSIRIS		NEFTI<------->SETH

“Enneade”, 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 Enneade 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 Enneade 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 Enneades 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 Enneade was admitted.
The second Enneade seems to include Horus, Isis’s and Osiris’s son, Anhur, Anubis, Khons, Horo of Edfu, Ammone, Thot, Shu and Amon-ra.
To this Enneade 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 Enneade will become later a divine person whose limbs, one by one, will keep a distinct existence, forming nine persons in one.