From the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 305 – 30 B.C.
“The Book of knowing the creations of Re and of felling Apep. Recite: Thus spake the Lord of All:
When I came into being, ‘Being’ came into being. I came into being in the form of Khopri who came into being on the First Occasion; I came into being in the form of Khopri when I came into being, and that is how ‘Being’ came into being, because I was more primaeval (?) than the primaeval ones whom I had made; I was the most primaeval (?) of the primaeval ones, and my name was more primaeval (?) than theirs (?), (for I made primaeval time and the primaeval ones.
I did all that I desired in this land, and I was all-pervading (?) in it. I knit mine hand, being alone, ere they had been born, ere I had spat out Shu or expectorated Tefenet. I used (?) mine own mouth, and ‘Heka’ was my name. It was I who came into being in <my> form, having come into being in the form of Khopri.”
Translation: R. O. Faulkner, The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus: IV, in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 24,1 (1938), 41-53.
Papyrus: British Museum, EA10188,13 © The Trustees of the British Museum, (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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