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| Ptah - The Creator God |
Sekhmet's consort is Ptah. In the Memphis trilogy, He is seen as the
Creator.
This myth was found inscribed on a stone dated from the time of King Shabaka in 710 BCE, though it purports
to be based upon a much earlier source. The Theology says more about the nature of the god Ptah and his role as supreme deity
and creator, than about the act of creation itself, The gods who came into being in Ptah:
Ptah-on-the-great-throne,
Ptah-Nun,
the father who made Atum.
Ptah-Naunet, the mother who bore Atum.
Ptah-the-Great is heart and tongue of the Nine Gods.
There
took shape in the heart and on the tongue the form of Atum. The very great one is Ptah, who gave life to all the gods and
their kas through this heart and through this tongue in which Horus had taken shape as Ptah, in which Thoth had taken shape
as Ptah.
Ptah’s Ennead is before him as teeth and lips. They are the semen and the hands of Atum. For the Ennead
of Atum came into being through his semen and his fingers. But the Ennead is the teeth and lips in this mouth which pronounced
the name of every thing, from which Shu and Tefnut came forth, and which gave birth to the Ennead.
Sight, hearing, breathing—they report to the heart, and it makes every understanding come forth.
As to the tongue, it repeats what the heart has devised. Thus all the gods were born and the Ennead was completed. For every
word of the god came about through what the heart devised and the tongue commanded.
Thus it is said of Ptah: "He who
made all and created the gods." And he is Ta-tanen, who gave birth to the gods, and from whom every thing came forth, foods,
provisions, divine offerings, all good things. Thus it is recognized and understood that he is the mightiest of the gods.
Thus Ptah was satisfied after he had made all things and all divine words.
He gave birth to the gods,
He made the
towns,
He established the nomes,
He placed the gods in their shrines,
He settled their offerings,
He established
their shrines,
He made their bodies according to their wishes.
Thus the gods entered into their bodies,
Of every
wood, every stone, every clay,
Every thing that grows upon him
In which they came to be.
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