The ancient Egyptians would eventually come to believe that before the world was formed there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad (pictured left) these were the four frog Gods and four snake Goddesses of chaos. Paired into a sacred marriage of male and female opposing forces they were Nun and Naunet who represented water, Amun and Amaunet who represented invisibility, Heh and Hauhet who represented infinity and Kek and Kauket who represented darkness. The water stretched off infinitly invisible in the darkness as ever lasting as time itself, through the process of Hieros Gamos these deities were able to birth all others, in later mythologies the first born of their union was the light or sun God, Ra followed by the other lesser Gods. During the rule of Pharaoh Akhenaten (pictured right) the sun God Ra would replace Atum, Meht-Urt and the Ogdoad as the prime being and original creator of all things having self-created himself.
