Thoth: The Cosmogony Of The Feminist

Thoth was best-known and worshipped in Hermopolis, though this city had a cosmogony of its own (David 88). In this cosmogony, Thoth was considered to be a minor creation god as he was the leader of a group of eight gods, called the Ogdoad (Budge 113; David 88). A bronze statue from the Late Period of Thoth with the smaller eight around him has been made as evidence of worship and acknowledgment of this myth even until later times (Silverman 35). This group originated from Khmun, one of the locations of Thoth’s cult centers (Wilkinson 78). The Ogdoad consisted of four male-female pairs: Nun and Naunet, Heh and Hauhet, Kek and Kauket, and Amun and Amaunet (David 88; Wilkinson 78). Each pair stood for a different aspect of primordial creative