August 11, 2007 06:55AM
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Hé Anthony,
"The name of Shu, a sky deity and a member of the Heliopolitan ennead of gods, was restored by Sethe (W.S. Smith 1949: 133-4) from the fragments of a decorated shrine built by Netjerikhet at Heliopolis. Otherwise, Shu is not attested until the Pyramid Texts of the late Fifth Dynasty"
Toby A.H. Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt, page 295
Almost the same goes for Geb:
(from the same source, page 284)
"The earth god Geb is shown in human form on a relief fragment from a limestone chapel of Netjerikhet from Heliopolis (now in Turin). It has been suggested that the original decoration showed all nine members of the Heliopolitan ennead, since the figure of Seth is also preserved (cf. Baines 1991: 96). However, it is also possible that the shrine was dedicated to the 'corporation' (ht), an earlier groupings of gods, refered to in the names of Semerkhet, Netjerikhet and Sekhemkhet; the corporation may have been superseded by the Heliopolitan ennead when solar theology rose to prominence towards the end of the Third Dynasty (Hornung 1983: 222). Originally, both groupings probably symbolised the gods in their 'indefinite plurality': in Egyptian writing, three represented the plural concept, three times three (making an ennead) a plural of pluralities (Hornung 1983: 222). As one of the Heliopolitan ennead and as an earth god from the time of creation, Geb features predominently in the Pyramid Texts (for example in the 'Cannibal Hymn' Utterences 273-4 [$$393-414]). The king himself is identified with Geb in Utterence 599 ($1645)."
Sorry for the paragraph sign. I don't have it on my keybord and substituted $ in stead.
Jeff
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