What is the ancient egytpian creation story?

Question

What is the ancient egytpian creation story?

Answer 1

Atum self gratifies himself, and we are the resulting seed.

Answer 2

thats a wierd thing to ask

Answer 3

I'll ask an ancient Egyptian.

Answer 4

One morning, Atum Ra awoke and declared for there to be life. From there, he created the other gods, then created the Earth and it all went from there.

Answer 5

Very early Egyptians knew the Earth is round. They believed the Earth was like a ball of dung fashioned by the scarab beetle. Here's more:

< Khephir (also Kheper or Khepera or Khepri) was the Egyptian patron god of the sun, creation, life and resurrection.  This god appeared as a scarab-headed man, a scarab or a man wearing a scarab as a crown. In some funerary papyri, he is shown as a scarab in a boat held aloft by Nun.  In Petosiris Tom at Tuna el-Gebel, the god is shown wearing an atef crown of the god Osiris.

We known of Khephir from at least the 5th Dynasty (2494-2345 BC) from a pyramid text that invokes the sun to appear in the name of Khephir. However, he may have been one of the very earliest gods of Egypt, yet there is no record of him having an actual cult. Crude objects resembling scarabs have been discovered dating from as early as the Neolithic period (7000-5000 BC)

The word kheper (or hprr) means scarab, and as the animal was associated with life and rebirth. Literally the word means "he who is coming into being". Like Atum, Khephir was a self-created god. The scarab lays its eggs in a ball of dung and rolls it to hide in a safe place.

From this unlikely substance the Egyptians observed new life emerging, seemingly from the the earth. Hence he was a god of creation. In Chapter LXXXV of the Papyrus of Ani, the Creator states: "I came into being of myself in the midst of the Primeval Waters (Nu) in this my name of Khopri"

Early in Egyptian history the beetle also came to represent the soul rising from death - resurrected, transcendent, fully formed and ready to make its journey and face its judgment in order to live in the Afterlife. By the New Kingdom (1539-1070 BC), the funerary texts from the papyri portray a scaraboid form as the most powerful symbol of life's victory over death.

Similarly, they believed that Khephri, in the form of a gigantic scarab, rolled the sun like a huge ball through the sky, then rolled it through the underworld to the eastern horizon. Each morning Khephri would renew the sun so that it could give life to all the world. As a deity closely associated with resurrection, Khephir was believed to be swallowed by his mother, Nut each evening and passed through her body to be reborn each morning. Therefore he is also closely associated with Ra and Atum. Later funerary texts combine Khephra (scarab) with Atum (ram) into a ram-headed beetle, a portrayal of the supreme god overseeing the cycle of life and death (and Afterlife).

Egyptologists believe that there was probably  a colossal stone scarab on a plinth at most if not all Egyptian temples.  In this configuration Phephir represented the temple as the Primeval Mound from which the sun-god emerged to begin the process of cosmogony.  The word Khepri was also often used in the titulary of the king.

As an amulet, the scarab representation of Khephir was by far the most important.  It might be viewed as being similar to a cross for a Christian.  There were ornamental scarabs, heart scarabs, winged scarabs, marriage scarabs, lion hunt scarabs and many other such amulets.>

Answer 6

'RedQueen' has given a very good explanation of the various Ancient Egyptian Creation stories, yes there were many, at various stages in the long History of Egypt....

Give 'RedQueen' the Best Answer...

Unless of course, You want the wrath of the Evil Dark Lord 'Set' to be upon You and 'sprinkling' on Your lettuces!!?

lol.

Answer 7

they are black.

Answer 8

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/story...

It's actually an interesting story.  Lots of violence though.

Answer 9

Here you go.

Egyptian Creation Myths

# As is the case with most ancient mythologies, the Egyptians created myths to try to explain their place in the cosmos.

# Their understanding of the cosmic order was from direct observation of nature. Therefore their creation myths concern themselves with gods of nature; the earth, the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the Nile river.

# Since the Nile river, with its annual floods played a critical role in this cosmic order, water was the fundamental element in the Egyptians ideas of creation.

# Regardless of the different creation myths and ranking of gods, Egyptian venerated many deities, that those gods were inherent in nature, and that they enabled the Egyptian to correlate human, natural, and divine life.

Lower Kingdom

# In the beginning there was only water, a chaos of churning, bubbling water, this the Egyptians called Nu or Nun. It was out of Nu that everything began.

# Then the sun god Ra appeared out of primeval chaos, he came out of an egg that appeared on the surface of the water

# He created the air god Shu and his wife Tefnut the goddess of moisture,

# Shu and Tefnut gave birth to the sky- goddess Nut and the earth god Geb, and so the physical universe was created.

# Geb and Nut gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.

# Osiris succeeded Ra as king of the earth, helped by Isis, his sister-wife.

# Seth, however, hated his brother and killed him.

# Isis then embalmed her husband's body with the help of Anubis , who thus became the god of embalming.

# The powerful charms of Isis resurrected Osiris, who became king of the underworld, the land of the dead.

# Horus, who was the son of Osiris and Isis, later defeated Seth in a great battle and became king of the earth.

# The Pharaoh of Egypt was considered the living Horus

Upper Kingdom

# At first there was only Nun, the primal ocean of chaos that contained the beginnings of everything to come.

# From these waters came Ra who, by himself, gave birth to Shu and Tefnut.

# Shu, the god of air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture gave birth to Geb and Nut, the earth god and the sky goddesss. And so the physical universe was created.

# Men were created from Ra's tears. They proved to be ungrateful so Ra, and a council of gods, decided they should be destroyed.

# Ra created Sekhmet to do the job. She was very efficient and slaughtered all but a few humans, when Ra relented and tricked her into stopping. Thus was the present world created.

# Against Ra's orders, Geb and Nut married. Ra was incensed and ordered Shu to separate them, which he did. But Nut was already pregnant, although unable to give birth as Ra had decreed she could not give birth in any month of any year.

# Thoth, the god of learning, decided to help her and gambling with the moon for extra light, was able to add five extra days to the 360-day calendar. On those five days Nut gave birth to Osiris, Horus the Elder, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys successively.

# Osiris became the symbol of good, while Seth became the symbol of evil. And thus the two poles of morality were fixed once and for all.

Elephantine Creation Myth

# Khnum created the universe on his potter's wheel.

# He modeled the other gods, animals and people of the earth.

# A detailed description of how he created humans is found at Esna Temple. It describes how he orders the bloodstream to cover the bones, and makes the skin enclose the body. He then makes the respiratory system and the food digestion.