Creation and the God Osiris: Selections from “Legends of the Gods” of Egypt, Part 1 of 2

Ancient Egyptian religion has existed since the 4th millennium BC and has influenced many cultures and Venerated Enlightened Masters such as Pythagoras (vegetarian) and Plato (vegetarian) with the concepts of reincarnation, the immortality of the soul, eternal life after we leave this earthly realm, and the Divine. The heart of Ancient Egyptian Religion is the principle of ma’at which consisted of Truth, Balance, Order, Harmony, Reciprocity, Propriety, and Justice. This includes equity for all humans, animal-people, and the planet that sustains all life. Harmony with Mother Nature, the Divine, and all Earth’s co-inhabitants, and “doing what is right, according to the truth that all living beings are spiritual beings and deserve to exist.”

Today, we are pleased to present selections from “The History of Creation” and “Hymn to Osiris and a Legend of the Origin of Horus,” from the book “Legends of the Gods” translated from Egyptian Texts by E. A. Wallis Budge. THE HISTORY OF CREATION “THE BOOK OF KNOWING THE EVOLUTIONS OF RA, AND OF OVERTHROWING APEP. [These are] the words of the God Neb-er-tcher [Lord of the Uttermost Limit],

who said: ‘I am the creator of what has come into being, and I myself came into being under the form of the God Khepera, and I came into being in primeval time. I came into being in the form of Khepera, and I am the creator of what did come into being, that is to say, I formed myself out of the primeval matter, and I made and formed myself out of the substance which existed in primeval time. […]

I have done my will in everything in this Earth. I have spread myself abroad therein, and I have made strong my hand. I was ONE by myself, for they (that is the gods) had not been brought forth, and I had emitted from myself neither Shu nor Tefnut. I brought my own name into my mouth as a word of power, and I forthwith came into being under the form of things which are and under the form of Khepera. I came into being from out of primeval matter, and from the beginning I appeared under the form of the multitudinous things which exist; nothing whatsoever existed at that time in this Earth, and it was I who made whatsoever was made. […]’”