Hermopolis is "the city of Hermes" in Greek, because it was a major cult centre of the god Thoth (associated with Hermes); but Egyptians knew it as Khmunu ("the City of the Eight"), after the Ogdoad, the world before creation. Ogdoad consist of eight deities; each pair correlated with one of the primary elements of the universe: water, air, light, time. Ogdoad created an egg from which the world was born; another belief is that the universe was created from a lotus flower that rose from the…
