World mythology & recorded folktales500 entries / 10 collections
Reading journeys / 4 stops

More than one beginning

A route through Egyptian creation accounts without forcing agreement.

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Egyptian

Creation in more than one voice

Switch between textual witnesses; watch the agents and kinds of action change.

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Egyptian

Atum: completeness before unfolding

Examine the creator’s relation to the first divine generations.

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Egyptian

Ptah: making through thought and speech

Follow creation through conception and speech.

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Egyptian

Memphis: a city, a temple, and a claim about creation

Return the theology to a place and a surviving inscribed object.

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After the last stop

Which detail changed when you returned to the source? Keep that question with you as you choose another route.

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