The Egyptians firstly coined the term "nun" for the primordial, first created or developed of which life first came out of. Ironically enough this title resembles of what we would use as the word "none" in the English language for referring to the same conceptual essence. Secondly they referred to the primeval hillock which would be known as us today a small hill or mound as of something coming out of the waters. Peaks of mud would be their the first sight of new promised life. The pyramids themselves were a representation of the idea of a rising hill being a promise to the deceased Egyptian that the will should emerge again into a new being. Hmm, this would be the first representation and justification to the philosophy pertaining to renewed life in a sense of reincarnation. Egypt also emphasized the initial self emergence of a creator-god where as the creator god of Genesis existed alongside the beginning of chaos.
The sun god was given the name Atum. Atum's name is thought to be derived from the word tem which means to complete or finish. His name also means everything and nothing. His essence was the all inclusiveness and emptiness at the beginning rather than the end. He is the inchoation of all. Like the that pregnant stillness which precedes a hurricane. In the Old Kingdom the Egyptians believed that Atum lifted the dead king's soul from his pyramid to the starry heavens. He was also a solar deity, associated with the primary sun god Ra. Atum was linked specifically with the evening sun, while Ra or the closely linked god Khepri were connected with the sun at morning and midday. Mankind was recognized as being as created in his image. The same overstanding philosophy found in Christianity and many other spiritual systems. Funny his name also resembles the name of the ever so familiar first man character out of Genesis we all know as Adam. Hmm, anybody catching unto the irony yet.
Next came the Memphite theology. Memphis was the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt. Out of here came the thought which came into the heart of a god and the commanding utterance which brought that unto into reality. Thought and speech are ancient attributes of power in Egypt personified as deities in our earliest literature. The sun god Hu was the "authoritative utterance" which is effective that it creates. Hu is the power of the spoken word.
That of which resembles the word "who" in English? Think of it. Ask out loud who? Hmm you have just created thought. Thought of the question of another being. Beautiful indeed. The god Sia was the perception or the cognitive reception of a situation, an object or an idea. Sia was the personification of Divine Knowledge and omniscience Pronounce it out loud. See ya! Hmm we have told the partnering being you have seen the essence and of course it would be our god Sia whose name pronounced interpreted its own thought just like Hu. Hu and Sia were the partnering attributes that carried governing authority. Out of them it was understood the heart is the organ which conceives thought and the tongue is the organ which creates the conceived thought as a phenomenal activity.
Ptah was known as the great one. He is the heart and tongue of the deities of the Egyptian gods. Great and mighty is Ptah who has transmitted all power and life to all the gods as well as their spirits through his own heart and tongue. Ptah as a similar utterance of the "ah-ha." He was the key to them all. He is throughout every heart and mouth of all gods, all men and lives. Wherever there is thought and command there Ptah still creates. His power is greater than of other gods for he rested after he made divine order. The divine order implies that the gods have a system into which all the created elements should fit as soon as created. Ptah was the chief god of the ancient city of Memphis. He was a creator god who brought all things to being by thinking of them. Ptah was also the patron god of skilled craftsmen and architects. As a craftsman, Ptah was said to have carved the divine bodies of the royalty.
So I will conclude here with part one to the ancient theology of Egypt and there is many more to come for this philosophy and theology of perspective thought is the Godfather to them all. I want to keep it simple and short so I can follow my own thought and other readers can as well. People this is great stuff it is the roots of the roots. It takes the same approach of breaking down perspective thought similar as of Eastern thought in Buddhism. Ironic I think not. And it still holds the root influence to the allegory found in western religious doctrine in the allegorical thought of sense. Think, speak and concur. The concept will retain itself for sure.
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