ennead

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A group of nine is called an ennead.

From BBC

The number Nine, or the ennead, being the multiple of three, should be regarded as sacred.

From Project Gutenberg

His arrangement by enneads, or series of nine, is fanciful, and wanting in inner principle.

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Generally there are three; in many places there is an ennead, a nine of gods, but the nine is a round number; there might be one or two less or more.

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Another branch of the sacred books survives in the formal theology of the schools which grouped gods together in trinities or enneads.

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