THE EGYPTIAN CREATION MYTH

[ambersilvannahmidford]

THE EGYPTIAN CREATION MYTH

Nu was the name of the dark, swirling chaos
before the beginning of time.

out of these waters rose Atum
he created himself using his
thoughts and sheer force of
his will.

he created a hill, for there was
nowhere he could stand.

Atum was alone in the world.
he was neither male nor female, and he
had one all-seeing eye that could
roam the universe.

he joined with his shadow to
produce a son and a daughter.

Atum gave birth to his son by
spitting him out. he named him Shu 
and made him god of the air.

Atum vomitted up his daughter.
he named her Tefnut and made her
the goddess of mist and moisture.

Shu and Tefnut were given the tast of
separating the chaos into
principles of law, order and stability.

the chaos was divided into light and dark
and set into place.

this order was called Maat, which formed the
principles of life for all time. Maat was a
feather; it was light and pure.

Shu and Tefnut produced Geb, the Earth
and Nut the sky.

At first these two were tangled together 
as one.

Shu, god of the air, pushed Nut up into
the heavens.There she would remain arched
out over Geb, her mate.

They longed to be together, but in the name 
of Maat they had to be apart, to fulfil
their functions.

Nut produced rain for Geb, and Geb made things
grow on earth.

As the sky, she gave birth to the sun every
night before dawn, and by day it would 
follow its course over the earth and die
at sunset.

Shu and Tefnut produced the other gods.

Isis, the queen of the gods.
Hathor, the goddess of love and beauty.
Osiris the god of wisdom and justice.
Seth, the god of evil.
Thoth, the god of wisdom, and
Nepththys the protectress of the dead.

But the chaos was still vast and not yet
fully separated into the order of Maat.

Shu and Tefnut once got lost in the 
waters of Nu.

Atum was desperate to find his children.
He sent his all-seeing eye throughout the
heavens and earth to search for them.

in time Shu and Tefnut returned with the eye.

when Atum saw them again he was so delighted
that he wept tears of joy.
As these tears hit the earth, they became
the first men.

As the man populated the earth they had to
uphold the truth and balance of Maat.

They had the task of tending the earth and
worshipping the gods.

Th gods, in turn, protected and loved their
creations.

[HyaenusDominae]

Originally, Set (or Seth) was the god of the desert, storms, and foreigners, and Apep, the giant snake of the underworld, was the god of evil. Set also protected Ra, the sun god. Every night, when Ra's boat passed under the earth and through the underworld, Set would help Ra fight Apep.
When foreigners known as Hyksos conquered Egypt, they chose Set as their patron. Thus, Egyptians came to hate Set, and he replaced Apep as the god of evil.
It's a shame to see a once beloved god become so hated.

[janetcraft]

This video made it easy to understand the story.

[KohanKilletz]

That highlighted area was Libya not Egypt

[leonemaledetto]

Interesting stuff!
Thanks for sharing these quite excellent animations, you can definitely feel the intended sense of awe these stories are supposed to have

[michaelotwell]

Sounds just as believable as any other creation story.

[cabbageclips]

Who else is here because they got it assigned to them as homework

[AccretionOfficial]

For everyone that is asking, where's Ra, Horus, Anubis, Selket, Bast etc... This is the creation according to Kemet, they didn't exist yet and are born from the other gods or even transformed from humans in some cases. BTW this is also the non erm... erotic version of creation meant to not shock the daylights out of people.

[SnowBunnieSqueakyToy]

Even though spirits have no form, an angelic being is always referred to as "he" or "He" if we are talking about the Hebrew God. Because the male role plays as dominance, so the Spirit or "spirits" can have control, or dominance over a person.

[autumndawson]

I'm working on a book about beliefs on how the earth was made around the world. This video gave alot of information I can use!

[femke]

uhmm the the gods Shu and tefnut were created by "making love with his hand"it says in AL the stories this way... did you change it for younger vieuwers ... because I think you shouldn't inform them wrong hystory

[hermesinkanatlari]

hey. i highly appreciate your work!! can i do a translation video of this vid?🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[lanastruczynski]

When he vomitted out his daughter, i froze, literally-

[TheMr]

Ra was the name of atums eye . The sun. Ra had many names and took different forms when atum was mad

[ikilledthewendigo]

I'm definitely checking out the website.

[TheLastOutlaw]

2012 this was around the time a huge wave of people were becoming conscious and entertaining other theologies and cosmologies. As a Christian (at the time) I found the creation story involving Ra to be very interesting and quite frankly, Simply elegant. It was beautiful and a breath of fresh air from the Christian story I was used to.

[hung]

Lol, I thought they would have included the goddess Ma'at.

[dreadeye]

How good of a resource is this for a school project? like is it a great slimmed version of the creation myth? or is it not right in some way?

[walterkrakora]

Ah yes, Libya! Same as Egypt which is literally right next to it.... basically the same right?

[livepce]

I once had an American creationist tell me that THE creation story should be taught in schools "teach the controversy" he said. My response was which creation story? And how do we pick just one to teach. How is your creation story more valid then the thousands of others....this f course is followed up by apologetics in the realm of circular reasoning.