Infinite Waters (The Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Interlude: Atum Creates the Universe. The stories of how ancient Egypt (and the world) came into existence are beautiful. In this episode, we explore three Creation myths: the tale of Atum and the primeval Ocean; the tale of Ptah and the divine word; and the story of the Ogdoad, the Council of Eight Gods. Each tale gives its own spin on the origins of life, the universe, and everything... Date c.4.5 billion years ago - 10,000 BCE Website: https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com Support the Show at www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Follow the show on social media www.facebook.com/egyptpodcast and www.twitter.com/egyptianpodcast Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. Hello. Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast. This is an interlude, infinite waters,
0:42.2	a look at how life and the universe were created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form a void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
1:05.0	Sorry, wrong book.
1:07.0	Let's try that again.
1:09.0	In the beginning, the universe was an ocean.
1:12.0	The ocean was infinite and it was contradictory.
1:15.6	Turbulent and calm, light and dark. It was all things and it was nothing. The ocean was beyond knowledge, it was infinity itself. The name of this ocean was noon.
1:30.0	Noon, or waters, was how the universe began as far as the Egyptians were concerned.
1:36.3	It came before anything else, before God, before creation, before life.
1:41.2	The known filled the universe, but the universe itself did not exist.
1:46.0	Known was a paradox, a swirling chaotic mass. All matter, all life, all potential was contained within its depths, and yet none of these things existed.
1:58.0	The Egyptians described this period like this.
2:02.0	Quote, It was a time before the sky came into being, before the earth came into being, before men came
2:09.3	into being. Before the gods were born, before death came into being.
2:17.0	End quote.
2:18.0	That quote comes from the pyramid texts, one of Egypt's first recorded bodies of religious hymns, spells and literature.
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