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Tatenen (also Ta-tenen, Tatjenen, Tathenen, Tanen, Tenen, Tanenu, and Tanuu) was the deity of the primordial mound in ancient Egyptian religion. His name means "risen land" [1] or "exalted earth", [2] as well as referring to the silt of the Nile. As a primeval chthonic deity, [3] Tatenen was identified with creation.
The names of Nu and Naunet are written with the determiners for sky and water, and it seems clear that they represent the primordial waters.. Ḥeḥ and Ḥeuḥet have no readily identifiable determiners; according to a suggestion due to Brugsch (1885), the names are associated with a term for an undefined or unlimited number, ḥeḥ, suggesting a concept similar to the Greek aion.
The Theban version of the Ennead consists of 15 members unlike the Ennead of Heliopolis. In addition to the gods of Heliopolis, several other deities from the Theban region were included, such as Montu, Horus, Hathor, Sobek, Tjenenyet , and Iunit. Here, too, the number and names of the members are not canonically fixed; rather, there is a ...
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Locum tenens, a Latin phrase meaning "place holder" Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tenen .