entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_EGY_OGDOAD,PER_EGY_MIDDLE_KINGDOM,high,The Ogdoad as a systematized collective of eight primordial pairs is fully attested in the Coffin Texts (Middle Kingdom; c. 2055-1650 BCE); the Coffin Texts develop the Hermopolitan cosmogony where the Ogdoad creates itself in the primordial waters (Nun) and produces the sun on the primordial mound; the Middle Kingdom is the period of the Ogdoad's theological consolidation,SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed
ENT_EGY_OGDOAD,PER_EGY_NEW_KINGDOM,high,The New Kingdom Book of the Dead (spell 175) and the Amduat develop the Ogdoad's role in the cosmological narrative; the Hermopolitan creation myth is integrated into New Kingdom royal theology; the Ogdoad's connection to Thoth's city (Khmun = Hermopolis) remains theologically significant throughout the New Kingdom,SRC_HORNUNG_DUAT,reviewed
ENT_EGY_OGDOAD,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM,medium,"The Ogdoad (eight primordial deities of Hermopolis Magna: Nun/Naunet, Amun/Amaunet, Heh/Hauhet, Kuk/Kauket — representing primordial water, hiddenness, infinity, and darkness) has roots in Old Kingdom theology; the individual members Nun and Amun appear in the Pyramid Texts; the full systematization as an ""eight"" (Hmnyw, the Ogdoad) is attested from this period",SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS,reviewed