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My name is Patricia Fagundes and this is Mythology As You've Never Seen!

And today's episode is:

More Egyptian creation myths

On the serie's last episode, we saw the creation myth of the city of Heliopolis.

Today I'll tell you some other stories like that.

Notice that each city had its own myth

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The first of the eighty seven million and forty fifths creation myths

that I want to bring to you today, is the one from Hermopolis

Egyptian city with a Greek name

that reveals high cultural appropriation of the Greeks

who associate the god Thoth to Hermes.

The city's original name is Khemenu, or "City of the Eight"

Alluding to the myth of the OGDOAD

The word is so weird that Microsoft Word won't even recognize it

The red thingy keeps appearing underneath it, you know?!

The story goes as follows:

Thoth, or Djehuty

That kinda appeared out of nowhere, born from himself

On the delightful primordial waters

There are other versions for Thoth's birth, but trust me...

THIS ONE

is the LEAST bizarre.

Because of reasons that only he knows, he decided to create four couples of gods

Men with frog heads

And women with snake heads

What a beautiful thing.

These animals were present on the primordial sludge

that this wet universe was

Thoth created these folks just by saying their names

Nun and Naunet

The depth of the primordial waters.

Heh and Hauhet

The infinite and the strength of the waters

Ket and Kauket

The darkness.

Amun and Amunet

The incarnation of the invisible forces

And by your powers combined

I am capt...

Just kidding

Now you find a way to put an egg and give birth to one more god to bring some light into this mess

It's too dark in here

And it's almost time for the seven o'clock soap opera and I can't not lose this chapter, right?

Well, somehow, Amun

In this best F.A.W. (Find A Way) style

Turned into a goose and put a cosmic egg

From which the sun god Atum was born.

IT'S NOT THE FISH! (In Portuguese, tuna is "atum")

The joke is already over

It's not... it's not funny anymore, this joke

I've already repeated it fifty seven million times on the other video, so...

IT'S NOT THE FISH!

And from Atum all the rest of the Egyptian pantheon was originated. egípcio

In Memphis, or Men Nefer

There's another creation myth in which Ptah

Other god that was born from himself

Patron of the artisans and of the city

Creates the gods by uttering their names

the world from the magic mud of the primordial waters

and the human beings from precious metals and stones

(I'm Fabulous)

A third creation myth

This time from the island of Elephantine

Involves another self-kidded god, called Khnum

Folks really liked to self-kid, I'll tell ya that...

Khnum was a ram headed god, of fertility and virility

who used a potter's wheel

to create people with clay or mud from the depth of the Nile

And blew the vital force

The Ka

that he also made with the same shape of the body

into the dolls

How cute...

By the way, he would also have created the world and the gods

With this magic handy-dandy mud

Do you remember that god I've mentioned on the third video of this channel?

The god of abundance and Nile floods

Hapy

Well, he's associated to Khnum

See, the island of Elephantine is located right next to that old border

between Egypt and Nubia

Close to the Nile's first cataract

Considered by the ancients to be the SOURCE of the river

They believed that Hapy was in a cave

And Khnum was responsible for opening its doors

And free him so that he brought the annual floods

Notice that in both of the last creation myths

The gods created men in their image and likeness.

Ok, I know we don't really have a ram head, but well...

To be honest, they didn't have those animal heads

The real appearance of the gods, nobody knows what is like

It's on that invisible plan that we can't access

So all we can do is use the creativity

and try to associate symbols or archetypes that recall each god's atributes

For example: Ra

He has a falcon's head

Because he symbolizes the sun

and the sun is in the sky

and the falcon flies

Anubis has the head of a dog or a jackal

because these last ones were seen in graveyards

probably searching for food

Scavengers

and the Egyptians associated them to the protectors of the dead

now the dogs were faithful, just like the god's temper

Seth has the head of an animal that nobody knows what it is

The theory is that it was an animal created to represent chaos

since all animals are cute and pure and Seth isn't

But if you stop to think about it, this doesn't make a lot of sense

since Apep, who also represents chaos

is far worse than Seth and it's literally a snake

The question remains...

Moving on.

To wrap it up I'll just mention one more demiurge, very important to the Egyptian pantheon

Worshiped on the city of Thebes, or Waset in Egyptian

Called Amun

This god, also mentioned on the Hermopolitan myth, from the beginning of the video

Would also be self-kidded, meaning he appeared out of nowhere.

He was associated to many other gods

and won fame on Egypt through syncretism

C'mon, you've already heard about Amun-Ra, haven't ya?

Well, this was just one of Amun's associations

With Ra

One of the biggest gods of Egypt

He was also associated with Min, a fertility god

with a not-at-all subtle Johnson

and with Ptah

The demiurge of the city of Memphis, whom I also mentioned here on this video

with Ptah

with Ptah, sounds like "apitar" ("to beep" in Portuguese), the verb "apitar", you know?! "Apitar".

Amun was an omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent god

so much so that he would associate with anyone

because of that he ended up becoming the god of gods

The invisible

The hidden

He would have created the four elements that allowed the cosmic operation

The earth

The sky

The heat and the moisture

You were expecting me to say fire and water

Isn't that so, little grasshopper?!?!

HUMRAM MRAM MRAM MRAM MRAM MRAM

So that's it, folks, the video is coming to an end

and I'd like to reaffirm that I'm not an egyptologist

I'm not a mythologist

I'm not a historian

So there was probably some mistakes

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A question just to finish...

Which of these creation stories I told here you found to be the coolest?!

And always remember

Be creative!