The Master Key to the Mystery System of the Ankh

The Secret of the Ankh is a pathway into the Mystery Systems. The Secret of the Ankh
leads to the what is called called the God Particle or the Higgs Particle as told by the
Ancient People of the Nile. The Secret of the Ankh also is in line with the Infinity Puzzle
of Frank Close this where infinity (Heh) and its opposite nothingness (hehet) and Nwn
(Dark Radition) and its opposite Nwnt (anti-matter) or and the resultant matter is
analyzed in creation . I believe that I have decoded the Symbol of the Ankh. My findings
are that the Ankh can no longer be viewed as just meaning life, but the creation of Life
itself. The Cosmological Origin was first discovered by myself and my friend Sekou
Fortune. I later expanded the base findings into a Blog that can be shared and read.

This is only the first part of what I have discovered. Sometime this year 2012, I will
begin to release the most important part of the Secret of the Ankh. Part II is Bigger than
the Secret, Bigger than the Laws of Attraction. What is hidden is in plain site once you
begin to understand Part I of the Secret of the Ankh. Part II will lead you on a straight
path to Initiation because the Ankh means Life, but it also means Eternal Life.

Up until June of 2011, I have always considered the Ankh an Egyptian or Kemetic
Symbol and had decoded it using the cosmology of the Egyptians. However, Anna-Mari
Pieterse from South Africa who has read my work directed me to look at the work of
Michael Tellinger. His discoveries in South Africa show that the mysteries in Kemet
began deep in Africa.

Before I summarize, I want to open up the air by reading to you probably the most
important inscription on any wall in the World. Though Hidden and overlooked this
inscription deals with the oneness of the Creator and summarizes more than 5,000
years of Egyptian Cosmology Hibis Temple the center of the southern el-Khargeh
Oasis Hymn to the Bas of Amun _t should be memorized. Commissioned by Darius I
after he sacked Kemet from the Nubians he layed bare Egyptian Cosmology to spread
to Asia. The temple writing clearly shows that the Egyptians knew of one creator but
acknowledge they had used several names and several stories but the one arose out of
the primordial ocean. The Secret of the Ankh is in here.

You are Amun, you are Atum, you are Khepri, you are Re. Sole one who made himself
into millions, Tatenen who came about in the beginning. You are the one who built his
body with his own hands, in every form of his desire. You are the great winged-scarab
within Nut, who protected A heaven and earth in their entirety, while rising from Nun
within the primeval mound.

The Ogdoad rises [for him in] jubilation when he appears, they seeing by means of his
[his first] manifestation as Horus-who-illumines, whose entire circuit is in the spit-fi re
and [torch-fi re] of his eyes, having illumined the circuit of heaven with his great double-
plumes.

My theory lives in here

To summarize the concept in Part I

(1)The Ogdoad Primordial Eight are the elements that created the Divine Creator
according to the Egyptians. This is taken from one of the oldest cosmologies -of
Hermopolis or Khmnu.

(2) Aspects of this story are used in the creation of Ptah, Ra, Amen, Aten in the other
creations stories. These all deal with just the creation of the Creator not with what
existed before creation.

(3) The symbol for the Ankh is the symbol with the Circle on top of the cross hairs
followed by the Mdu Ntr sounds of N and KH.

(4) From the breakthroughs of translations we know the symbol was pronounced NKH
or ANKH. The A is disputed and may have been added for convenience of
pronunciation. Even if the Ankh is a triliteral at this point there is no definitive way to
show how it was pronounced.

(5) If we return to the Ogdoad, the eight pairs are Amen Amenet, Nun, Nunuet, Kek,
Kekhet, and Heh, Hehet. My theory is that the symbol took the names of the Ogdoad
into consideration for its pronunciation. One must remember first that the Mdu Ntr is in
fact the Sacred Words of the Ntrs or Deities. So there must be some root words are
sounds that were used in the beginning and will continue to be used for words
describing creation.
(6) The Ankh not only is a symbol of Life but the elements that create life. These
elements are the Ogdoad and the Odgoad is essential for Life. The symbol Ankh is
connected to the Ogdoad and I believe it gets its name from the Odoad. This is the secret
of the Ankh.

Let us continue.

Wherever the Ankh is translated in Ancient Egypt Literature it must be re-translated

with the following insight: The Ankh is the Life Code; The Egyptians so-called
Infinities or Chaos Gods: Amen/Amenet, Nun/Nunet,Kuk,Kukhet, Heh/Hehet the
Ogdoad.; The Meaning of Life is no longer just a flat definition but a multi-dimensional
definition of the scientific and possibly spiritual definition of how life was created itself.

First though it may appear my work is not about phonetics, not about linguistics but
linguistics have some bearing. The Secret of the Ankh can be approached two ways that
lead to the same result.

First I will look at the Ogdoad the Primordial Eight and how these elements resolve
themselves into Life.

Second, I will look the Mdu Ntru symbol for the sound N which is a Wave and the Mdu
Ntr symbol for the sound KH which Gardiner says incorrectly is a placenta but probably
matter are key elements of the symbol ANKH or NKH Wave plus Matter produces
the elements of Life or the God Particle. This is essentially a well proven theory of Dr.
Oyiboe, as part of his GAGUT -Grand Unifying Theorem. I will use Dr. Oyiboes
expression but expand on it.

Part I

Before I begin talking about the Ogdoad, I want to discuss an important finding about
the word ANKH to open up the doors. Mostly, we dont look at sounds having any
mathematical principles unless the definition says to look in that direction. For example
the word Code has a definition of some puzzle. An Astute problem solver would look
into the word code itself to see its origins, its use, etc.

The sound Ankh is a code. Lets begin to see why.

I will do it with the sounds that make up the Ankh and later look at the symbols. First
the sounds. Lets look at the purmutations that make up the sounds ANKH.

A A, An, Ak, Ah

N N, Na, Nh, Nk

H H, Ha, Heh, Hk, Hn

K K, Ka, Kh, Kn, Km

Well Look at this The sounds combinations make are the beginning to many
important words in Ancient Khemet and even important words that all languages stand
on.

From Kemet I mean - An, Annu, N, Nu, Nun, , Kh, Kek, Ha, Heh, Heka including
creating the words Amen, Nun, Keh, Heh and many more. The Diety Ptah has said to
be written in its earlier text Pet ta HeH. From the Catholic Encylopedia we find that
Ptah of Memphis (An) is the ruler of infinity (Heh) and the Lord of Eternity (Tet). Some
of these patterns make up the formula we are discussing. Ankh or Nkh, Some of these
words find themselves in the Cosmological space that I am discussing now.

For example the word combinations that make up the ANKH also make up the
elements of the name of the City of Eight where the Ogdoad precided -Khmn.

In addition we have AN The City of AN Heliopolis where another creation story

comes from.

We have elements of the soul Ka, Ah

Of course we have the powerful sound that discribes a wave or vibration N

From the Ethiopian Book of Life by Sir. E. A. Wallis Budge. Wallis Budge looks at the
Greek Magical Papyri (Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum) There exist
ABRACADABRA Why is this word so magical.

ABRACADABRA, BRACADABRA, RACADABRA, ACADABRA,

CADABRA,ADABRA,DABRA,ABRA,BRA,RA,A

The point is that Greeks, who derived their knowledge from the People of the Nile did
have knowledge of palindrones and words form words.

I can go on but the Doors have been Opened

Part II

So lets look at the Ogdoad itself. First the Egyptians called them the Hehu. They are
represented by 4 pairs of primordial qualities, forces, or Deities.

A = Amen/Amenet

N = Nun/Nunet

K = Kek/Kehhet

H= Heh/Hehet

ANKH

If these are primorial creators or important forces then their names would probably
primoridal sounds. Said or chanted together would be a word sound. This word sound
can now be described as the Ankh
Before I continue, I do want to make note that in many Quantum Physics discussions,
the God Particle or the Higgs Boson Particle is associated with a sound.

Where as Dr. Beatty has guided me that phonetically that I have a problem because of
the difference of the pronouncement of A sound in Ankh and the I/A of Amen/Amenet.
At any rate, I should be able to continue with my Thesis because we have not heard the
Ankh nor Amen/Imen pronounced in 1,000 years by an African native to the Mdu Ntr.
It can very well be pronounced as NKH with the A silent. Additionally, the symbolic
evidence is even more plausible. Also we see in the ANKH that water/nile /wave glyph
that gives the N sound is also part of Nun/Nunet and even part of Amen/Imn. In
addition, I have not found yet a Glyph that represents the A sound in ANKH. I have
always seen it having the Ankh symbol and with the N sound and the KH sound. So
there is at this point no proof that the symbol is pronounced the way we pronounce it.

In addition, earlier I have shown that the root sounds of the Hehu/Ogdoad deities are
used in other important Kemetic words as some root code.

This dilemma is like one that Dr. James Conyers once told me about. Paraphrasing,
We have seen four thousand years of the pictures of the upper and lower crown on the
Nwsts head. We assume that we have found one but there exist none in any museum.
Here we assume that the Ankh is pronounced with a long A sound when we know the
people of the Kmt either made them silent or did not pronounce them at all. This is what
we call Paradigm Blindness.

The Secret of the Ankh is a bold, fresh view to Egyptology and expands the field. The
definition of the Ankh has not been challenged or expanded since its appearance in the
Western World. The Ankh exist prior to creation, during creation, during life, during the
time of transition, and in the afterlife. The failure to see the Ankh with this expanded
definition is paradigm blindness.

Important also is that the religion, history, spirituality, philosophy stands on its
Cosmology. The Ogdoad/Eight/Hehu/Infinities/Chaos Gods are in aspects of all of the
Kemetic cosmologies. In the cosmological studies, the Ankh does not appear until after
the creation begins and the success is the life of the Creation God as Ptah, or as Amen.
When the creator deity is born in Nun or the combination of the Ogdoad in Nun then
the symbol appears. The symbol of the Ankh is the Egyptian representation of the God
Particle or the Higgs Particle.

I have a short post on cosmologies, plead read. Over the years, I have talked to many
Kemetic Scholars, Priest/Priestess, people of the Kemetic Faith, or people who are
involved in Kemetic organizations and I find that the majority do not know the
cosmological systems of Egypt or have chosen one over the other without knowing that
they interlock. I was lucky enough to know and read the Maat Kheru Dr. Jacob
Carruthers work early on and I can say that this lead me to this analysis.

The Secret of the Ankh is a Paradigm Shift and from the definition that author Joel
Barker gives: A paradigm is a system of rules and regulations that does two things: First,
some of the rules set limits or establishes boundaries-just like a pattern sets the edges.
Then, the rest of the rules offer you guidance on how to be successful by solving
problems that exist inside these boundaries-in a sense, they offer you a model for
problem solving. So a paradigm is a problem-solving system. And a paradigm shift is
when you change from one set of rules to another. Paradigm Blindness is when you cant
see change or what is really happening because the rules that you are using are
preventing you from seeing reality or the future.
WATCH THE VIDEO

The ANKH is a Paradigm because it solves a set off problems in the field of the study of
Nile Valley Civilization, African Culture.

If the Ancient People of Kemet did not want the common people to understand the laws
of order, Maat they simply would not have written it down on everything they
could. There are few who claim that they belong to some Mystery System and then act as
if this is some special preserve. The people of Kemet said otherwise, they said things
such as, If you are a leader and command many, strive for excellence in all that you do
so no fault can be found in your character. For Maat is Great; its value is lasting and it
has remained unequal and unchanged since the time of the Creator

Part I

The Ankh represents the first key to the Mysteries The Creation of Everything. The
Ankh means more than Life it is the most ancient symbol of a code of sounds and
primordial deities. The Ankh is actually the Names of the so called chaos Deities of the
Khemnu or Ogdoad: Amen/Amenet, Nun/Nunet,Ku/Kukhet,Heh/Hehet. This
resolves itself to ANKH. The Ankh itself has four distinct sides and one of them is the
Loop Nun/Nunet. These four pairs in were thought to be the Children of Tehuti and
Maat. Both Tehuti (Vibration), Maat (Order) and the four pairs themselves have their
own forces. Amen/Amenet is the hidden spark of life and its opposite , Nun/Nunet is
the primordial unformed mass and its opposite, Ku/Kukhet is the qualities of Light and
its opposite, and Heh/Het is the qualities of infinity and its opposite. At some point the
Eight fuse themselves together bounded by Maat and Tehuti and a Deity Ptah is formed
out of this chaos (the God Particle), he steps on a mound, Aton is formed and lands on
his shoulder then The Ennead is created or the 9 deities. This is called the First Time
or Sp Tepii, Zep Tepi, Sep Tepii, Sep Tepi.

Ancient Kemet is both Scientific and Spiritual. The Mysteries System of Egypt is also
both Scientific and Spiritual. To begin self mastery one must understand how everything
began. A child in Ancient Egypt would be told the creation stories, I described and grow
up understanding Science and Spirituality. An African Child in the Diaspora would be
taught one of the Major Western Religions and grow up with religion and later learn
science and have to juggle between the two. Here is the beginning key to re-orientating
African Thought, Practice, Spirituality, Redemption and Self Mastery.

From the Video

The oldest creation story Hermopolis Khmunu creation story. This creation story has
both Maat and Jehuty living in Khemnu which translates to the city of Eight. In the City
of Eight (Khemnu) with Maat and Jehuty were four pairs of dieties, both male and
female. This is called the Ogdoad by the Greeks.Maat is said to be the mother of the
Eight!!!! Tehuti her Husband or Consort.The names of the eight were Nu/Nunut, Heh
and Hehet, Amn, Amnt and Ku, Kukhet.

They were associated with qualities such as primordial mass, infinity and its opposite,
hidden forces and its opposite and darkness and its opposite. From the left image, you
see the Goddess Maat and Tehuti on the far right image is the Ogdoad.
From the Nile Valley Text: You [the Eight] have made from your seed a germ, and you
have instilled this seed in the lotus, by pouring the seminal fluid; you have deposited in
the Nun, condensed into a single form, and your inheritor takes his radiant birth under
the aspect of a child (Edfu VI, 11-12, and Esna V).[xxix]
Coffin Text spell 76 names the four pairs, and connects the Ogdoadwith some of the
Ennead: O you eight chaos gods, keepers of the chambers of the sky, whom Shu made
from the efflux of his limbs, who bound together
the ladder of AtumI am Shu, whom Atum created, from whom Ra came to be.I was not
fashioned in the womb, I was not bound together in the egg.I was not conceived, but my
father Atum spat me outtogether with my sister Tefnut The bnbn of Ra was that
from which Atum came to be as Heh (chaos), Nun, (the watery abyss), Kek
(darkness),Tenem (gloom substituted for Amun in this verse).
Here is how the Ogdoad is traditionally presented

Here is the Ogdoad decoded:

Here is how the males look in the mdu ntr (Hieroglypics) From Essays in Ancient
Egyptian Literature, p 58 and 59
This is an ancient code Take the first letters of each of the Ogdoad names and you get
NHKI/ NHKA Look again it resolves itself to INKH/ANKH. So, it seems
coincidentally we get ANKH. Here the Ankh is written in the long form.

Here we see the most common usage of the Ankh Here is the Symbol, the N water
ripple and the KH Placenta?. The N can be pronounced, and the KH is pronounced.
The sound of its symbol begins with the A similar the extend arm glyph. This I have to
check. At any rate, the ripple water identifies it with possibly water, or wave. The
Placenta has obvious meanings of birth. I am currently attempting to find out why the
KH symbol is the placenta. It does not look like a Placenta at all. I have found that the
KH sound is used in the Mdu Ntr of the placenta so that is why the symbol is referred to
as a placenta. Obviously, the Ancient Egyptians knew about the placenta and knew how
to draw it it is found in the Narmer Pallete and the Wepwawet Standard in the Step
pyramid. The symbol that is known as the sieve or placenta obviously has a meaning
that contributes to the placenta, but may not necessarily be the placenta.

Sekou Fortune who helped me discover the Secret of the Ankh and our new researcher
Alfred Djehuti Thompson II Bro. Al, made an amazing contribution while we were at
the ASCAC conference in Washington in August. They discarded Gardiners and Budge
naming of the KH sound as Placenta. They said that it could not be a Placenta for the
following reasons: 1) the symbol is in equal parts 2) The people of Kemet knew how to
draw a placenta 3) Cosmologically the placenta would have no place in the creation of
everything women and man were not created. 4) They challenged that symbols in
relationship to the Ankh have cosmological references and the KH symbol may very well
be Matter itself.
 The KH sound also appears
in other cosmological or important words and names in Ancient Kemet. These words
include Khufu and TKN. Interesting enough Khufu full name is Khnum-Khufu which
means loosely Khnum protects me. This is exciting because Khnum created man on the
potters wheel. Khnum means to create. So there is a correlation with what he uses to
create with. We believe this stuff is matter and a component of Life or the ANKH. In
addition the KH sound again is used in Khepherra Khepherra is the Dung Beattle that
often symbolizes live as its young mysteriously appears from out of the dung in a flurry
of Life. Bro. Al also commented brilliantly that the divisions of the KH symbol show
equal parts that of course add up to a whole. Thus he references the Ogdoad as equal
parts pairs of four. I challenged him that the parts dont always add up to Eight He
said that the point is that they add up to a Whole and that you can find the KH with four
pairs but when you dont they still add up to a whole. We are further investigating
because our friends who are in the academy challenge us to look at every occurrence and
every categorize and compare. We are not in the academy and only which to expand the
field. We will talk more on this later.

Though we have been talking about Kemet/Egypt Summeria has a God called Enki
who has some similarities with the qualities of the Ankh. The Summer God Enki is also
created in the Primordial Ocean. Further the People Annunaki also seems to derive itself
from the work Ankh. It has some of the same root words Nun and Kh. Wikipedia has the
name described as written a-nuna, a-nuna-ke -ne, or a-nun-na, meaning
d d
4
d

something to the effect of those who from heaven came to earth. The A-nuna appear in
the Enma Eli (Akkadian Cuneiform) is the Babylonian creation myth (named after
its opening words).

The opening tablet has a very similar opening to many of the creation stories of Ancient
Egypt. Here is the Enuma Elis creation opening.

e-nu-ma e-li la na-bu- -ma-mu When the sky above was not named,

ap-li am-ma-tum u-ma la zak-rat And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,

ZU.AB-ma re-tu- za-ru-u-un And the primeval Aps, who begat them,

mu-um-mu ti-amat mu-al-li-da-at gim-ri--

And chaos, Tiamat, the mother of them both,
un

A.ME--nu i-te-ni i-i-qu--ma Their waters were mingled together,

gi-pa-ra la ki-is-su-ru su-sa-a la she-u- And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;

e-nu-ma dingir dingir la u-pu-u ma-na-ma When of the gods none had been called into being.

At some point I will continue with the Enki but at this time it is not necessary. The
Enuma Elis dates to 7th century Bc. At this time more than 5,000 years of known
Ancient Egyptian Culture has already passed.

I want now to pose that the Ankh symbol in Mdu Ntr is a Formula for Creation in itself.
 What I am saying is that after the Eight Joined or the Ogdoad Joined or the
Khemenu joined there was some wave of energy or some sound wave (N) that went as
fast as Heh/Hehet or Infinite Distance and Infinite Speed then separated Kek/kekhet
or created light from darkness for the First Time or Sep Tepi.

This expression is no different then the Big Bang Theory and the resulting God Particle
or Higgs Boson Particle Theory. Further the wave or sound is also an important
component of the God Particle search. What I am saying again is what occurred in
Khemenu is closely related to modern Quantum Physics.

Boldly, I am saying that the Ankh in Mdu Ntry Hieroglyphics may be a representative of
some formula like this Ankh = E=mc(2).

I purchased Laird Scrantons work recently, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon The Key
to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs and was stunned to see that
he did not cover the Ankh in his work or the Ogdoad. This of course is because his focus
was much more on the Dogon and that much of what he said can continuously be taken
from that living culture. Also the Ankh is not obviously a common symbol between the
two cultures from the evidence at hand. However, Lairds work opens up the problem
solving door Its the stem cell. He does cover however the N sign and the KH sound.

Though his work is of Great Importance. This search reminded me of the Great Search
of breaking the code of the Hieroglyphics. From Wikipedia Champollion deciphered
the hieroglyphs with the help of groundwork laid by his predecessors: Athanasius
Kircher, Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Akerblad, Thomas Young himself, and William
John Bankes. Champollion translated parts of the Rosetta Stone in 1822, showing that
the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs.
In breaking the code was a great competition in the European culture where careers
were made and lost where the early predecessors basically went into obscurity. This is
not the case in this discovery. Laird Scrantons work make the problem solving faster.

Stunning, both myself and Laird Scranton are Computer Scientists. I received my degree
in Comp. Sci from the City University of New York in 1988 taking courses from the
famous Daniel D. McCracken, Dr. Micheal Anshel and others. However, my path lead to
me to studying Egypt/Kemet under Dr. Leonard Jeffries, and was exposed to the many
scholars in the the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization, and First
World Alliance Including: Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannon, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Jacob
Carruther, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Bro James Small, and Sister Rkhty Amen Jones and
others.

If I am indeed right and what Laird Scranton says in his book is right, then I have indeed
broken the code of the Ankh- It is the Ogdoad and it is the only symbol that speaks to
pre-creation, creation, and the transmission of energy in the after life. I would owe
everything to the scholars that I studied under and particularly Dr. Rkhty Amen Jones
because she first taught us in New York the Mdu Ntr.

When Ancient Egypt began actually using the Ankh is unknown but we know that it was
used before the so called dynastic times. During the reign of the first dynasty Horus
Kings Narmer, Aha, Djet, Den and Merineith, we see startling evidence of the use of
the Ankh in this Pick comb from Hr-Djet. This artifact is also startling because it is an
indication of Ethnic Features and because it is made from Ivory that would be found
in the South. However, for these purposes, the Ankh is clearly what it is.
Both the Goddess Maat and the Tehuti/Thoth will often be seen with the Ankh. With
the Goddess Maat, you will often see the Ankh resting on her knees while she is sitting.
In this dramatic photo the Goddess Maat is in the hand of the Nwst. When the
Goddess Maat is shown or used she is represented for the qualities or attributes.
Those qualities are Order, Justice, Righteousness, Truth. So here the Nwst or King has
in his hand the Goddess Maat and what she represents. Maat is holding the Ankh in her
hand. A flat analysis of the Ankh meaning life wont do. The Nwst who is Gods
representation on earth is holding Maat, the symbol of order and in this context social
justice in her hand. She in turn is holding the Ankh. Taking a multidimensional analysis
of the Ankh we see that she is holding the Ankh because it represents pre-creation,
creation, and afterlife and that the Chaos Deities Amen/Amenet,Nun/Nunet.Heh/Hehet
and Kuh, Kuhket have dominion.
In this photo, we see Tehuti pointing the Ankh at Nwst Seti I. Often times the Ankh is
pointed at the mouth during a ritual called Opening of the Mouth. Again, in this very
symbolic and ritualistic picture Tehuti is using the power of the Ankh to usher the
Nwst Seti I into the after life. A flat look at Tehuti, who himself is Vibration itself
bounded by Maat who by using the Ankh is giving life will not do. The Eight Chaos
Gods embodied as the Ankh have primordial and eternal power. They are the both the
primordial elements that ushered in life itself and the primordial elements that facilitate
transition when energy is exchanged from one state to another.

The point that I have tried to make is that the 4 pairs of primordial forces or deities
resolve themselves into the work Ankh. These primordial deities have a direct
relationship to the Attributes of the Goddess Maat and the attributes of the Primordial
Diety Tehuti.

The primordial deities were important to the creation story of everything. The general
definition or the way that it is used is in the context of life. That the Ankh was in use
early in the history of Egypt or Kemet. Finally, that it is conceivable if not immediately
plausible that the Ogdoad or the Eight with Maat and Tehuti are the origin of life and
the Ankh means life so that there is a direct connection.

This cosmology with the Ogdoad, the Eight becomes startling when you look at the
living Dogon Creation Story, Here we find the Eight again during precreation and again
we find four pairs of deities.

Part II

Dr. Mario Beatty in his response, alerted me to the fact that the imn and Ankh have two
different pronunciations and that this is problematic in my mapping of the Ogdoad to
the Ankh at least phonetically. His point is well taken and I will take this in
consideration -see his comments. However, I am attempting to decode the meaning of
life and I see the relationship between the Ogdoad and the Ankh harder to separate then
it is to connect. The mapping still applies in the context of Cosmology and the mdu ntr
as ideographic symbology.

I will simply at this point concede to this linguistic approach, but I will continue on a
cosmology approach or an ideo. However, if we dont pronounce the Amen/Amenet
(who is hidden anyway) and pronounce the NKH I will proceed.

Qualities of the Ogdoad or Hehu or Infinities or Chaos Gods as they relate to Life

Lets look at the Ankh again -

The Ankh with the understanding about the Ogdoad can be looked at the
following ways.
The N and KH symbols resolving itself to the Ogdoad = ANKH

The N and KH symbols meaning wave and matter symbols = ANKH which is Life

The Ankh representing the Ogdoad and the N and KH symbol = Ogdoad with wave and
matter create Atum or Hydrogen.

The Cosmology of Ancient links members of Eight in whole or in part to creation and
life. They are necessary to life. In the Cosmological Stories the Prime Creator is born in
Nwn, Nwnt. This includes Atun, Ra, Ptah, Aten, Amun. The Eight in whole or combined
in Nwn and Nwnt can not be separated from the Ankh, because the formula is as the
prime creator is created in Nwn /Nwnt then and only then does the Ankh appear.

In addition, to begin looking at the qualities of the Eight in whole or part to begin to
understand the deeper meanings lets look again at the Eight as they are drawn.

Let us
return to Imn (Amun,Amen,Amon). In Laird Scrantons book, The Cosmological
Origins of Myth and Symbol he looks at Imn from a symbolic view. On page 85. he says
that Imn is that which weaves waves into particles from a place hidden from
interference.

Partial Inscription from Shabaka Stone Translation by Dr. Theophile Obenga, African
Philosophy.

The Gods who came into existence in Ptah. Ptah who is on the great throne. Ptha-Nun,
the father who made Atum. Ptah-Nunet, the mother who gave birth to Atum. Ptah, the
Great Elder, the heart of the Ennead who gave birth to the gods, the tongue of the
Ennead, who gave birth to the gods.
Partial Inscription form the Myth of Destruction of Humanity p. 165 African Philosophy
by Theophile Obenga.

Together with the the fathers and mothers who were with me when I was still in Nwn, as
well as the deity Nwn himselfWhen it is over. I shal return into Nwn, where I came
into exisence.

Partial translation of Hymn to Amon-Ra, God of Thebes, African Philospohy by

Theophile Obenga, p. 540.

He who inaugarated existence, Amon, who coame into being in the beginning, none
being aware of his emergence! There was no god who came into being before him. There
was not other god with him to draw out his forms. There was no mother to give him a
name. There was not father to engender him, claiming: It is I! (he is) one who formed
his egg himself. Mighty one of Mysterious birth, who created his own beauty, divine god
who came into being on his own. All the gods came into being when he gave himself a
beginning. Amon, he who emerged from Nwn, guide to humanity. Another of his
forms is the Ogdoad, Primordial gorup which gives birth to promoridal gods who give
birth to Ra.

TutAnkhAmun (The Living Image of Amun), called the boy king was born TuTAnkhAtn
(The Living Image of Atn). Later, I will challenge the traditional meaning of these
names.

TutAnkhAmun
The Left Glyph is TutAnkAmun with the South Sign, Heliopolis An, and the Rulership
symbol and the right is Neb Khepera Ra (Load of the Creation of Ra).

TutAnkhAmun was put on the throne after the demise of Akenaten most likely his
father. During the reign of the Nwst Akenaten, he both disbanded the priesthood and
replaced the deities Ptah and others with Aten. This period is called the Armana
Revolution. I will attempt to cover the Armana revolution in another post but it was
faced paced replacement of the cosmology of Kemet/Egypt.

Among the Artifacts buried with TutAnkhAmun, two of them are startling to my
assertion. The first is the Ankh Mirror box.

Inside the Ankh is TutAnkAmuns name Neb Khepera Ra. It is a stylized Mdu Ntr. Here
we see the Isle of Fire, the Kephera Beatle, the Feathers of time, the Netjer Ankhs
(Cobras), the Shen signs (infinity connected directly to Heh), and finally the three Suns
Orions Belt symbolizing Sep Tepi (The First Time).

Why would the Egyptians/Kemetic people put this creation story inside the Ankh? Here
the Cosmology Creation is not separable from the Ankh. In addition, the loop of the
Ankh is actually serving as a Shenu/cartouche for the Nwst/Kings name. If the loop of
the Ankh is Nun/Nunet as it is represented here and the Kings name is inside of it
then this is evidence that that the Shenu is possibly Nun/Nunet. There is no doubt that
the Shenu is connected to the Ogdoad Heh/Hehet. At any rate, the Ankh and the Shenu
have similiar properties. They both have loops and they both have ropes and in at least
one case the NebKhepreRa Kings name was in the Ankh. In addition, the famous Ankh
Mirror of Amen Tut Ankh is significant because though the mirror has never been
found, the mirror portion would represent Nun/Nunet or the primordial waters.

Before I leave the Ankh Tut Amun, I want to also show his wife Amun Ankh Ese
known to most of us as AnkhesAmun. Here are both their Glyphs together.

Here we see the Nwst AmunAnkhTut and his Wife AmunAnkhese both Husband and
Wife were connected to the Ankh and connected to Amun representing an aspect of the
Ogdoad. So this is primary evidence of the Ancients making a point of the Ankh and
Amun in a Marriage.

Here is Further Stunning Evidence. Here is the Tyet Symbol.

You will see the name Neb Kephera Ra inside of the Loop of the Ankh, You will see the
Ankh serving as Shenu to hold the Kings name. Again Neb Khephera Ra is lord of the
Creation of Ra and this happens within Nun/Nunet This symbol is also incredible
because it has the Ankh in the figure of a Human and will be later associated with Aset.
This symbol like the Ankh has predynastic Egypt origins.

Also stunning.
This one again has Neb Kephera Ra, but it also has Eight circles, and then nine fishes. Of
the Eight Circles have an inner circle and they repeat circle (inner circle), normal circle
as if frog and snake for the 4 pairs. In addition there are nine objects which I believe
represents the Ennead. Interesting that the four which are fishes, I can map to Tefnut,
Nut, Neb Het, and Ast. and the five eggs I could map to Set, Asr, Geb, Shu, Atum. In
addition, there is the Ankh, Shen and the Ntjer Ankh. The shen of course is closely
associated with the ogdoad Heh.

Also is the Ennead. Notice Five of them are Males and Four of them are female. Now
return to the TutAnkhamun amulet there are four fishes and five eggs.
With the following in mind: 1) Amen/Amenet,Nun/Nunuet,Khu/Khukhet,Heh/Hehet
ANKH or NKH 2) The stylized creation story Neb Khephera Ra in the Ankh 3) The
amulet with Neb Khephera Ra and the eight circles and the nine objects underneath
we turn again to the Nwst Tut Ankh Amun clearly his name itself has a direct
connection to one of the Ogdoad Amun. Further, we are not actually pronouncing the
Kings Name correctly at all. Many Egyptologist confirm that the name would really be
Amen Tut Ankh because precedence was given to the Diety name First which would
make sense. Now saying that we may have his name as Amun the living image of Ankh.
This is a game changer.

Here with this Nwst/King Tut Ankh Amun is is difficult to separate the ogdoad/eight
from him. Further with all of this in mind and challenging the definition of the Ankh, we
may see the Nwst now as not just the Living Image of Amun or the Amun the living face
of Ankh- We may see him as Amun of the Combining of the Eight or Amun of the
Ogdoad, Amun of the Eight Primordial Neters, Amun the Creator or as Professor James
Small has put it so eloquently, God having a Human Experience. We can even use the
Elijah Muhammad concept as God in the person. At any rate, we have a richer and more
profound definition of this Glyph. The Glyph of Tut Ankh Amun is now combined with
the cosmology and philosophy of Ancient Egypt.

We see this interesting combination again with another restorer of Amun. The Nwst
Pianky.

Here we see again as with Tut Ankh Amun part of his name Pi Ankh ii referencing the
ankh and the other part referencing the creation story with Khepera mn khephera ra

The Ancient Egyptians/People of Kemet/Ta Merii expressed their thoughts in writing

and language in the Mdu Ntr which is both secular and spiritual and also in symbolic
drawings and Jewelry.
Where the language rules may at first make my case less plausible if only for the Amn
sound in attempting to code the Ogdoad directly into the sound of the Ankh, the Ogdoad
in relationship to Egyptian cosmology is inseperable in the sacred text, art and jewelry.

At the center of Egyptian Character is Good Speech. Speech itself is an attribute of

Tehuti. Good Speech is an attribute of Maat and Tehuti. When the Egyptians speak they
are speaking multiple concepts at the same time and often in multiple layers. The
Egyptian Speech is carried to their culture, their science, their politics, their values,
interest and principles.

The Egyptian Speech in all of its vehicles is so complex that it is plausible that you can
code complex ideas and even a secret language in their writing.

So with the amulet- You cannot separate the Ogdoad from this piece of jewelry and
given the fact that this was the restorer King, TutAnkhAmun born TutAnkhAten- we add
what was he restoring. He was restoring the cosmologies of old that Aten attempted to
dismantle and replace. What were those cosmologies. Which of them were the oldest?
What was the history of the cosmologies. What cosmologies were simplified, expanded,
merged. By the time we get to the 18th Dynasty Egypt was at least three thousand years
old. And did Egypt start its civilization or did the plan of Egypt come from a place south
to it. A place like Nabta Playa.

Why did the Priest put this stylized creation story in the loop of the Ankh?
In the Memphite Cosmology Ptah rises from Nun/Nunet. He has the Ogdoad in his
mouth and creates the Ennead. Ptah is almost inseparable from the Ankh or is he
inseperable from the Ogdoad.

The power of ideographics is that you dont have to speak, you just have to analyze.
Symbols are a complex language in itself and these are not the only symbols that make
the nkh/Ogdoad connect not only conceivable, not only plausible but the truth.

Are we taking about the Big Bang in the Ankh, the first time Sp Tpii , are we talking
about the evolution of life on earth We know one thing both these concepts are
happening within the Ankh and we know that it is happening in the Loop and we know
that the creation story that they are talking about happened in the waters of Nun.
From South Africa

New Findings from Southern Africa: The following is from the Book Temples of the
African Gods by Michael Tellinger and Johane Heine

This is what they say about this diagram: An

Egyptian Ankh carved into a glacier slab at Dreikopseiland, South Africa. This
petroglyph is worth a thousand words since the Ankh is inside a radiating
circle; suggesting that the Lord of Light has the key to eternal life. It also suggests that
the secret lies in the frequency of light or is linked to some kind of vibrational energy
that combines sound and light. This knowledge would be consistent with the circular
ruins of southern Africa that were used to generate energy by using sound and possibly
also light. This understanding of the flow of energy in sound and light was rediscovered
by Keely, Tesla and Rife in the late 20th century

Normally symbols are very difficult to decipher especially when not in context but this
symbol Ankh is within some matter/anti-matter storm and the Egyptian Definition or
descriptions of the Ogdoad describe elements that would be in this type of storm and
out of the result and because of the result is Life or Ankh.

The Ankh has ultimately survived Kemet/Egypt. I will summarize this by saying that the
Ankh will appear in Old Nubia Dongola
Then the Ankh will appear in Christian Ethiopia in several forms. The first form you will
see instead of the Ren/Name in the Loop of the Ankh, Faces. Most notably, Christ and
His Mother. Then you will see the Coptic Cross

Then the Apostles faces will be in Nun

The Ethiopian Coptics will remake the Ankh

Here I want to include a very important recent finding after I have reread The Ethiopian
Book of Life The Bandlet of Rightousness. by Sir. E.A. Wallis Budge.

From x11 in the footnote In Codex A, p.54 is given a drawing of the Seal of Solomon.
In the centre is what seems to be a gem emitting eight rays of light, and between double
concentric circles are written the names HLYPT SLYT SPILT TR(?)YKT PP MRYT HLPT
A(?)YLPT. Outside the cirles are the names DPP$ BRWLHT HKIKT TRKLT PPT
PRISHT ALILT PPASHNT SHRIT PLISHT. The text continues These names shall be
supporters, and protectors and deliverers and protectors against all diseases and
sicknesses now; also before Kings and Governors, etc.

On p. xiii Drawings of the Seal of Solomon are found in many Ethiopic amulets, and
they are claimed to be copies of the device which was engraved on the bezel of
Solomons ring. A prominent feature in all these drawings is a modified form of the
Coptic Cross, whcih of course, proclaimes their non-Hebrew origin. Worked into the
designs are two, four, or eight eyes, which indicate that the Seal was specially intended
to protect the wearers of the amulets from the Evil Eye and from the attacks of fiends
and the Devil.
Here is the powers of the primordial eight pairs surviving and being recoded into the
Coptics.

I will put the secret of secrets here because only you are probably to weary to read and
make the corrolation

http://www.donaldcorrell.com/road/goetia/goetia.html

coptic cross ankh

The Qabbalist will use the Ankh

The Knight Templars will use the Ankh

And latter the Rosicrucians will take as their symbol the Rose Cross

Rosci

As we speak, Scientist have just trapped Matter and Anti Matter or captured Nun and
Nunet. Until 2010, Matter and Anti-Matter could not exist when the two come
together there is a violent explosion. See
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/switzerland.cern.antimatter/index.
html?hpt=C2 Scientist Capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough. From the
Article -

CNN) Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough
that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.
Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to
confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.

This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in
turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter. Understanding antimatter is
one of the biggest challenges facing science most theoretical physicists and
cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and
antimatter were produced in equal amounts. However, as our world is made up of
matter, antimatter seems to have disappeared.

Understanding antimatter could shed light on why almost everything in the known
universe consists of matter. Antimatter has been very difficult to handle because matter
and antimatter dont get on, destroying each other instantly on contact in a violent flash
of energy.

I want to give Credit to Bro. Sekou Fortune and Bro. Anthony Jordan, who helped
decode the Ankh as well as my Mentors Dr. Leonard Jeffries, and Bro. James Small and
the organizations and institutions that provided me an environment to understand
Africa. These include: The First World Alliance, ASCAC, Department of Africana Studies
at City College, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

To be continued.

Before I leave, I want to double back on a few things that I had said in summary but I
want to draw a major important part out. In Kemet there were several cosmologies and
some of them were older than others. The Khemnu Cosmology where I draw my theory
about the Secret Origins of Life or the Symbol Ankh is mentioned in several other
cosmological text.
I had mentioned both an Amon Text and the Shabaka Text. The Amon Text is actually
the Hym toAmon-Ra it is found in the Leyden Museum, translated by andre Barucq
and Francois Daumas as told by Theophile Obenga in his great work African Philosophy,
The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330 B.C. The other text found on what is called the
Shabaka Stone which is an old kingdom text restored by Nwst Shabaka in 710 B.C. in the
25th dynasty found in the British Museum

Both of these text while they describe the birth of the creator by other names such as
Amon and Ptah they include the early cosmology of the Khemnu in Part. This is an
essential point about the cosmology of Khemnu is that its profound teachings on the
pre-state of life ushering in life amazed even the People of the Nile so that the story of
creation had to be embedded in other stories for validity.

I have found that most of our scholars have missed this important point and have left
their work flat and not pregnant as with the story of life springing forward as it does
from the Khepera Beetle.

So I believe my work ushers in a new era of relooking at the Secrets of Ancient Kemet or
Egypt.

I just recently found this article by Renata Tatomir which is extremely helpful to your
understanding: http://www.it4s.ro/Renata%20Tatomir_Article_II
%20CongressForYoungEgyptologists_Lisbon2006_orig.pdf

This is also an important reading

http://books.google.com/books?
id=l4kQFwWZesMC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=ogdoad+nn&source=bl&ots=NpS9ldhE
Fa&sig=2rnn4VJNNZ7WM-3LokEExbt7cTk&hl=en&ei=Q5jbTtKYGuWU0QH-
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Egyptian Cosmology in Short
Posted on August 25, 2010 by admin

Most people who study Ancient Egypt or those involved in the Kemetic Faith or
Spirituality, actually do not know the cosmologies. The cosmologies are probably the
most important aspect of understanding Ancient Egypt/Kemet.

Kemetic Cosmology comes from an older and more ancient place. We have recently
found that Nabta Playa in Nubia is much older than Egypt (6,000 bc) and
the Megaliths there are a precursor to the Giza Plateau. Recently, we have seen that the
Megaliths in Southern Africa are up to 100,000 years old and important to these
Megaliths that act as a calender are ancient Horus carvings. See Micheal Tellingers
Book Temples of the African Gods.

Often overlooked in Egypt/Khemet is the God Khnemu. Khnemu is actually the earliest
God of Kemet Pharoah Khufu named himself after him he was actually Khufu
Khemenu. After him his Sons replaced their names with Ra.

Here is a section from The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind

Then the Aged One himself (i.e., Ra) embraced (?) the god Nu, and spake unto the gods
who came forth in the east of the sky, Ascribe ye praise to the god, the Aged One, from
whom I have come into being. I am he who made the heavens, and I (set in order [the
earth, and created the gods, and] I was with them for an exceedingly long period;
then was born the year and . but my soul is older than it (i.e., time). It is the Soul
of Shu, it is the Soul of Khnemu (?), it is the Soul of Heh, it is the Soul of Kek and Kerh
(i.e., Night and Darkness), it is the Soul of Nu and of Ra, it is the Soul of Osiris, the lord
of Tettu, it is the Soul of the Sebak Crocodile-gods and of the Crocodiles, it is the Soul of
every god [who dwelleth] in the divine Snakes, it is the Soul of Apep in Mount Bakhau
(i.e., the Mount of Sunrise), and it is the Soul of Ra which pervadeth the whole world.

Khnemu appears earlier in the Famine Text in the Third Dynasty when Kemet is
Plagued by Famine and Imhotep guides Djoser to pay attention to Khnemu. See
Famine Text.
At some point Khnemu is replaced with Ra However, the cosmology is basically the
same.

I wanted to include the following blurb from a blog because it interesting and requires
further research:

Of the Egyptian triad of primal creative deities (PtahTanen, Khnum and Herchef) the
god Khnum comes closest to the Hebrew picture of the primal deity as creative artist.
Khnum is a ram-headed god whose cult originated in Elephantine. He was like YHWH, a
potter in creation who shaped men like a potter shapes with clay upon a wheel (the
Hebrew picture of YHWH loyim as primal potter is shown in Jeremiah 18:2-4). In
Memphite theology Ptah, in his association with Khnum, is a dwarf spirit chief of the
nine creative cosmic spirits collectively referred to as Khnum (the potters). The nine
Khnum spirits are represented in statuettes with muscular bodies, bowed legs, long
arms and big heads.

According to Memphite theology Ptah, assisted by the Khnum spirits, shaped the world
and men like a potter shapes clay on wheel, thus, the dwarfs are often represented as
earthenware elves. In the association of Khnum spirit with clay or earth, as medium of
their creative expression, they are; often represented as dwelling underground, like
artisans in subterranean workshops bring things to life from earthenware material; in
the womb of the earth. The idea of subterranean workshop of creative dwarf spirits
taken to be primal potters is widespread. The Chinese worshiped Pan Ku, Phoenician
sailors revered dwarf statuettes. Creative dwarf spirits were associated with Tvashtar the
Modeller, in the Rig-Veda hymns. Black dwarfs are identified as creative spirits in
Teutonic mythology.
The highest conception of Ptah the Primal Modeller in Egyptian theology was rather
abstract. He was (as already mentioned) the embodiment of the Cosmic Ego and
omnipresent demiurgic spirit, creator of all things. All things took shape or emerged
from his creative mind.
The writer JohnThomas Didymus is the author of Confessions of God: The Gospel
According to St. JohnThomas Didymus.( http://www.resurrectionconspiracy.com/ ). If
you have found this article interesting please read the article:CREATOR GOD AS
SMITH-ARTIFICER: PROMETHEUS AS MESSIAH-SAVIOR FIGURE on his blog:
http://johnthomasdidymus.blogspot.com/2010/11/creator-god-as-smith-artificer.html
 Not surprising you find here Khnum
modelling men with the assistance of his wife Anquet holding an Ankh.

It is apparent that Khnum and his eight never leave Egyptian Cosmology and Khnum
never leaves Nubia. Key to this is creation and what assist in creation. Khnum has eight
helpers called the Khnumu. Latter in the Shabaka Stone Ptah will have eight helpers
again. Here is Kemetic Cosmology references in short:

The cosmology of Khmun or Hermopolis is one of the oldest cosmologies. At this point
though Khnum and Khmun look closely similiar one reflects the creative nubian deity
and the other reflects a place The City of Eight. However The Hieroglyphic for the
Khnum is a Jar to hold water or Nun and the City of Eight also contains this Jar.

There are several cosmology themes but existing with variations of weather one, several
or different combinations of the the following primordial dieties Amen/Amenet,
Nun/Nunet, Kuk/Kukhet, Heh/Hehet. Tuhuti was called their father is some text and
Maat their mother in another text. In this cosmology some event explosion took place
that caused the combining of the eight
References are the lake of two knives, island of flames.

The cosmology of Khmun then combines with the cosmology of Yonew, Helipolis or On.
In this cosmology precreation is not explicityl stated but Atum is created in some event
with Nun and steps on the primieval hill and begins creation.

The next cosmology is that of Menefer/memphite/Hikuptah Cosmology. Here Ptah

takes the role of Atun and embodies in his mouth the Eight and creates the Ennead.
From the Shabaka Stone which is a later rewriting of the Memphite Coslomogy Ptah
(c. 700 BC) he is altogether identified as eightprimitive forms of God; the first is Ptah
who is upon the great (i.e. primeval) place, meaning the original spirit. Then Ptah-Niu
the waters who was the father of Atum, next is Ptah-Naunet the Primeval Mother
who gave birth to Atum. Then Ptah the very great one who is the heart and tongue of
the Divine Compay. Unfortunately several of the names have been lost to us, except
Nefertum, the lotus. source:http://www.philae.nu/akhet/NetjeruP.html

From the Middle Kingdom Amen Hotep III begins the worship of Amun Re His Son
Amen Hotep IV begins the worship of Aten Re combining older dieties into Aten. He
takes this one step further by defacing the names of the other dieties.

Amen Tut Ankh (Tut Ankh Amun) restores the old religion Horemhab begins the
persecution of the Aten priesthood

Amun Ra becomes the popular Dietity of the working people in Waset/Thebes. Amun is
that beloved God who hearkens to humble entreaties, who stretches forth his hand to
the humble, who saves the weak, who hears prayer, conies at the voice of the
distressed humble one, who gives breath to him that is wretched, and Re-Harakhte is
called august, beloved, merciful God who hears him that prays, who hears the humble
entreaties of him that calls upon him, who comes at the voice of him that utters his
name.

Amun Ra has 777 ears and milions of Eyes. He becomes the hidden one that we pray and
hears our prayers and appears when we need him.

The Shabaka stone contains aspects of all of the Cosmologies. I asked Kemetic
Professor Mfundishi Jhutyms about the problems of the different strains of cosmology
and he has an excellent metaphor that described helps. Basically, if a car runs in back of
a bus and there are three witnesses. Each witness will tell his story from his vantage
point. But the fact is that the car hit the bus. So there is at least one agreement. Here life
comes out of Nun/Nunet. I have earlier talked about Ptah and the Eight.

From other sources on cosmology

J. Hills website- http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/ogdoad.html

There are four central creation myths. The first held that the world was born from a
cosmic egg created by the gods of the Ogdoad. It was invisible as the sun had not yet
been born. When it opened, it revealed the bird of light, an aspect of the sun god Re
(occasionally the egg was said to contain air, associated with Amun and Amaunet).
Alternatively, the egg was laid by a celestial goose called the Gengen Wer (the primeval
goose who was associated with Amun who took this form as a creator god). When Re
hatched from the egg, he created the world and everything in it. The second version says
that the egg was laid by an ibis, (a bird sacred to Thoth). However, the cult of Thoth
developed after the original myth of the Ogdoad, so it is probable that this story was an
attempt to incorporate Thoth into the pre-existing Ogdoad (who were sometimes known
as the souls of Thoth).

The third myth states that a lotus flower emerged from the waters of the Sea of the Two
Knives (a lake near to the temple in Hermopolis). The petals opened to reveal Re who
then created the world. The fourth myth is similar, except it held that a scarab beetle
(Khepri the symbol of the rising sun) was revealed when the petals opened. The scarab
transformed into a young boy whose tears formed the first human beings. The boy is
generally considered to be Nefertum (young Atum) but once Re and Horus had been
merged as Re-Horakhty the boy was sometimes considered to be the infant Horus.

The Hermopolitans claimed that their theory of creation was older than any other in
Egypt and that it was the Ogdoad who gave birth to both the sun and Atum . It is also
interesting to note the similarity between the Ogdoad and the description of the creation
of the world found in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament).

copyright J Hill 2010

From http://www.egyptian-gods.info/2010/11/egyptian-gods-ruling-forms-and.html

The Egyptian Gods and the Natural Elements

According to the Hermopolitan view the eight primordial deities existed in four pairs of
male and female, each associated with a specific aspect or element of the pre-creation:
Nun (or Nu) and Naunet (water); Heh and Hauhet, Infinity; Kek and Kauket; Darkness;
Amun and Amaunet, Hiddenness. These original elements were believed to be inert yet
to contain the potential for creation. James Hoffmeier has shown that interesting
similarities exist between these elements and the conditions list immediately prior to
the creation account in the biblical book of Genesis. In Egypt, however, the members of
the Ogdoad were regarded as distinct divine entities and their names were
grammatically masculine and feminine to reflect the equatin creation with sexual union
and birth. They were called the fathers and mothers of the sun god, since this deity
was the focal point of ongoing creation in the Hermopolitan world view as he was
elsewhere.

Just as the beginning of the annual season of growth has marked in Egypt by the Niles
receding imundation and emergence of high points of land from the falling river, so the
Egyptians viewed the original creation event as occurring when the primordial mound of
earth (see Tatenen) rose from the waters of the First Time. It was said that a lotus
blossom (see Nefertem) then rose from the waters or from the same primeval mound;
and it was from this flower that the young sun god emerged bringing light into the
cosmos, and with it the beginning time and all further creation.

The Power of the Sun God; The Heliopolitan View of the Egyptian Gods

Heliopolis, the chief center of solar

worship, produced a somewhat different mythic system built around the so-called
ennead or group of nine deities which consisted of the sun god and eight of his
descendants. The Heliopolitan theologians naturally stressed the role of the sun god in
their creation stories which focus, as a result, not so much on the intert aspects of
preexistence but on the dynamic aspects of the resultant creation itself. The form of the
sun god usually associated with this creation was Atum, who was sometimes said to
have existed within the primeval waters in his egg as a way of explaining the origin of
the god. At the moment of creation Atum was said to have been born out of the
primordial flood as he who came into being himself, thus becoming the source of all
further creation. The god next produced two children, Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture),
from himself. Several versions of the story exist, but in all of them Atums children are
produced through the exhalation of the gods body fluids or mucus either through the
metaphor of masturbation, spitting or sneezing.

In return, this first pair produced their own children, Geb (earth) and Nut (Sky), who
took their respective places below and above their parents, giving the creation its full
spatial extent. Geb and Nut then produced the deities Osiris and Isis, Seth and Nephthys
who viewed from one perspective represented the fertile land of Egypt and the
surrounding desert, so that the key elements of the Egyptian universe were completed at
this time. Frequently the god Horus, son and heir of Osiris and the deity most closely
associated with kingship, was added to this group, thus supplying the link between the
physical creation and societal structures. All these aspects, however, were viewed as
simply extensions of the original coming into being of the sun god who lay at the heart of
this world view and who was thus the father of all and ruler of the gods.

While the scholars of Heliopolis focused mainly on the emergence and development of
the sun god, Atum, the priests of nearby Memphis looked at creation from the
perspective of their own god Ptah. As the god of metalworkers, craftsmen and architects
it was natural that Ptah was viewed as the great craftsman who made all things. But
there was also another, much deeper, link between Ptah the creation of the world which
set the Memphite view of creation apart. The so-called Memphite Theology which is
preserved on the Shabaka Stonein the Egyptian collection of the British Musem reveals
this important aspect of the Memphite theological system. While the inscription dates to
the 25th dynasty it was copied from a much earlier source, apparently of the early 19th
dynasty, though its principles may have dated to even earlier times. The text alludes to
the Heliopolitan creation account centred on the god Atum, but goes on to claim that the
Memphite god Ptah preceded the sun god and that it was Ptah who created Atum and
ultimately the other Egyptian gods and all else through his heart and through his
tongue. The expression alludes to the conscious planning of creation and its execution
through rational thought and speech, and this story of creation ex nihilo as attributed to
Ptah by the priests of Memphis is the earliest known example of the so-called logos
doctrine in which the world is formed through a gods creative speech. As such it was
one of the most intellectual creation myth to arise in Egypt and in the ancient world as a
whole.

Like Atum, however, Ptah was also viewed as combining male and female elements
within himself. This is seen in early texts, and in the latest period of Egyptian history the
name of the god was written acrophonically as pet-ta-heh or p(et)+t(a)+h(eh) as though
he were supporting the sky (pet) above the earth (ta) in the manner of the Heh deities,
but also bridging and combining the female element of the sky and the male element of
the earth in the anarogynous manner of the primordial male-female duality Ptah-
Naunet.

Egyptian Gods in Mythic Variants

As much as these three systems of comsogony and theogony differ in their details and in
the stress placed upon differing deities by their own cults, it is clear that they all share a
similar approach to creation. Although the differing approaches were apparently never
combined into one unified myth, stories existed for many of the individual myths which
fitted into the same overall ramework. In the stories stressing the solar origin of
creation, for example, we find variants which proclaimed that the sun god came into
being as a hawk or falcon, or as a sphoenix, in the form of a child, a scarab bettle, or
some other creatures, but these all originated from the primeval waters or from the
mound which rose from them. There are also variants of the manner in which the
monad (the prime, indivisible entity) is said to have produced the rest of creation a
Middle Kingdom text found on coffins at el-Bersheh states of the All-lord: I brought
into being the gods from my sweat, and men are the tears of my eye; but these do not
differ radically from those of Heliopolis considered above. To some extent all these
stories appear as kaleidoscopic variations of core mythic elements, and may indicate an
effort on the part of the Egyptian theologians to incorporate deities which had arisen in
different parts of Egypt, or at different times, into existing mythic frameworks. It is
often the nature of the creator deities and the basis of their power which is at issue in
the varying stories of the origin and rule of the Egyptian gods.