The Egyptian pantheon is set up as a number of paired opposites given as god with godess consort to represent platonic ideals of a synthesis which allows them to become whatever it is they are going to be. A number of major deities are addressed as the creator of the cosmos. These include Atum, Ra, Amun and Ptah among others, as well as composite forms of these gods such as Amun-Re. Interacting with the supreme being of the Ogdoad was the elemental existence of the Ennead