The Ennead

The "Nine Gods" of Heliopolis — Atum (Ra), Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephthys — the genealogy that the Egyptian creation text and the hymns Budge translates set out, and that Plutarch retells for its last generation as the five gods born on the five extra days. Herodotus counts Egypt's gods in eights and twelves and never in nines.