Ptah - The Creator
Patron of: creation, craftsmen,
artisans.
Appearance: A man with a punt
beard, wrapped up like a mummy, but with his hands free which grip a great
staff made up of the symbols for life, stability, and power. Sometimes he wears
a skullcap crown and stands on the hieroglyph for Maat.
Description: In the Memphite
theology, Ptah is the primal
creator, the first of all the gods, creator of the world and all that is in it.
He is not created, but simply is. In some stories he is the personification of
the primal matter, Ta-Tenen, which rose out of Nun,
the fundamental seas. His wife is said to be Bast (or Sekhmet) and their children are Nefertem, Mahes, and Imhotep.
Ptah's importance may be
discerned when one learns that "
Worship: Worshipped throughout
all of
Variants:
Ptah-Seker-Osiris
A composite funerary god worshipped during the Middle Kingdom period. In this form he represents the three aspects of the universe: creation, stability, and death.
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MARIA! – Egyptian
Book of the Dead
Osiris | Thoth | Atum-Ra
| Netjer | Ptah |
Kali
| Sekhmet | ISIS
| Hathor | Ma’at |Nut|
Virgin
Mary | Kali-Joya