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Language: hieroglyphics
Province: Egypt
Date: 2500-2400 BC
Purpose: Request the protection of Mer-ne-Re and Nefer-ka-Re and their pyramid
pg. 3
This text calls on Atum-Khepprer, who was on a high hill: he rose up like the ben-bird in the Ben-House in Heliopolis. Atum sneezed out the gods Shu (god of air) and Tefnut (goddess of moisture). Atum put his arms around them like the arms of a soul.
The text shifts to asking that Atum put his arms around King Nefer-ka-Re and his new pyramid, like a soul as well.
Finally, the text makes a request to the Great Ennead in Heliopolis - Atum the Creator, Shu, the god of air, Tefnut, goddess of moisture, Geb, god of earth, Nut, goddess of the sky, Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. It requests that these gods and the Nine Bows work with Atum to protect King Nefer-ka-Re and his pyramid.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE CREATION BY ATUM
Language: [Not mentioned]
Province: Egypt
Date: 1500-1000 BC
Purpose: Give immortality to those who were righteous by connecting them to the divine
From the Book of the Dead chapter 17
pg. 3
Atum was in Nun [the chaos waters]. Nun is the first god who came into being by himself and the father of the gods. Re created the parts of his body and the gods who came after him by naming the parts of his body. Unlike God in Genesis, who is assumed to have always existed from the start, the first Egyptian god, Nun, comes into being (there is a time when he is not). Similar to God, Re brings about the other gods and the world through speech.
Atum was in Nun [the chaos waters]. Nun is the first god who came into being by himself and the father of the gods. Re created the parts of his body and the gods who came after him by naming the parts of his body. Unlike God in Genesis, who is assumed to have always existed from the start, the first Egyptian god, Nun, comes into being (there is a time when he is not). Similar to God, Re brings about the other gods and the world through speech.
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