The main Egyptian myths of creation are from four different parts of Egypt. They cannot be easily distinctive because they borrowed from each other and overlapped. These myths are known as the Heliopolitan, Memphite, Hermopolitan, and Theban creations.
* Creation myths that involve Amun
Memphis
According to Memphite priests, Ptah was the god who created the world through his intelligence and spoken word. This is where the Greek doctrine of the divine "logos" comes from. He was the foundation of all wisdom, arts, morals, cities, and people, and was considered by his priests to be the creative force behind the other gods, including Atum and the Ennead of Heliopolis. Many Egyptians found these concepts hard to handle, so in due course, Ptah was joined with Osiris and became an influence on the Afterlife.
Heliopolis
There is only a little information on these myths from the Old Kingdom, probably because they were so well known, scribes thought there was no need to record them. According to the Heliopolitans, the world began with a watery chaos known as Nun. The god Atum, who is closely associated with Amun, bore within himself the sum of all existence. In the beginning, Atum was only a local god of Heliopolis, but when he was identified with Ra, he became more significant. He was personified as the setting sun, and the sun before its rising.
Having appeared on a hill, known as The Mound of Creation, or the Ben-Ben Stone, where a temple would later stand, Atum created the other gods by masterbating. His daughter, Tefnut (goddess of moisture), and her twin brother, Shu (god of air), were born by being vomited or spat out of Atum's mouth. Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Nut (The sky goddess who is often depicted stretched out above the earth), and Geb (the earth god, lying a Shu's feet). Geb and Nut gave birth to Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, and Seth, who tore himself from Nut's womb. These gods became the Ennead of Heliopolis.
*Hermopolis
This myth is similar to the Heliopolitan one, but it focuses on eight original gods known as the Theban Ogdoad. Nun (the primordial frog-headed god), is still represented as the waters of Chaos, with his consort Naunet (the serpant-headed goddess). There were also the couples Huh and Hauhet (endlessness and/or eternity), Kuk and Kuaket (darkness), and Amun and Amaunet (air and/or invisibility). Amun became the most important of these gods. He stirred up the waters of darkness to bring life, insuring the inundation of the Nile and the rising of the sun. The concept of a cosmic egg being laid by an ibis or goose is also associated with this as well.
*Thebes
The Theban creation myth appeared later in the New Kingdom because Amun's priests, who were originally associated with the creation myth of Hermopolis, wanted to raise Amun's status. According to the priests, Thebes was the Primeval Mound (Ben-Ben Stone)-the site where Amun first arose from Nun and created himself. All of the other gods were merely manifestations of himself. He was also Ptah. He was the lotus from which creation grew. He was the Ogdoad, and he became the Primeval Mound of Memphis. Thebes then took over Heliopolis and claimed Osiris was born in the New Kingdom capitol.

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