c. 2700 BCE, Khemetic Sacred Text (Memphite Theology)
Cause
It is the heart which causes every completed concept to come forth, and it is the tongue which announces what the heart thinks. Thus all the gods were formed … Indeed, all the divine order came into being through what the heart thought and the tongue commanded.
in Kemet and the African Worldview , Maulana Karenga and Jacob Carruthers, eds., 1986
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004