
I have let this marinate for a while so im not really up with the plot, but read some recent chapters. And no the author didn't change the ennead, the ennead is always 9 (with seth ofc). The 8 gods that the author is talking about are different gods named "Ogdoad" they were worshiped in hermopilis (the religious center of thoth) and the Ogdoad was formed by 8 ancient gods that represents elements, there are 4 male gods and 4 female godesses, and they are in pairs, each pair form an element, they are amun and amunet that represents winds, kek and kauket that represents darkness, heh and heuhet that represents infinity, and finally nu and naunet that represents water/ocean. Those 8 gods were powerful in the mythology and ancient Egyptians always worshiped them esp amun, that's way a large number of pharaohs' names end with amun, bc he was the strongest out of them all.
When I saw that riddle I thought it was going to be a reference to the Ennead. Like there are 9 gods (roughly) as part of the Ennead although this author might have changed it to 8 lol.
I also kinda of miss Geb, the wife of Nut. I wonder if the other Great Gods will show up outside of maybe Ra, etc.
Does anyone know who the Foreign God is? There must be enough clues to show who he is but I have no idea.