Ancient Egyptian creation myths
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Ancient Egyptian creation myths refers to the Ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. These stories were central to Egyptian mythology. In all of them, the world was said to have emerged from an infinite, lifeless sea when the sun rose for the first time. However, there were different versions of this event, associated with certain cities in Egypt. These attributed the creation to different gods: the set of eight primordial deities called the Ogdoad, the self-engendered god Atum and his offspring, the contemplative deity Ptah, and the mysterious, transcendent god Amun. While these differing cosmogonies competed to some extent, in other ways they were complementary, as different aspects of the Egyptian understanding of creation.
