Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to take a look at the Ennead, which was a group of nine gods the Heliopolitan creation myth revolved around.

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In the beginning, before creation, before the first breath was drawn, before the inexorable flow of time, there existed only the primordial waters of Nun - dark, watery, and infinite. There was no end to them. In these primordial waters were all of the elements of creation, but in a boundless liquid state, they were almost inert; for nothing could be formed by them, combined as they were. It would take the touch of the divine for anything to happen.

Within the water of Nun, the god Atum created himself from the watery darkness that churned about him. He then impregnated himself by masterbating and ejacualting into his own mouth. Atum's mouth functioned as a womb, and through his will and thought, his seed quickened into the fetuses of his two children. After a period of gestation, the divine twins Shu and Teftnut were expelled from the surrogate womb in which they grew. One was spat out. The other was sneezed out. Shu was the god of dry, life-giving air and sunlight, and tefnut was the goddess of moisture.

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