pBerlin 3048, New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1.295 – 1.186 B.C.
Worshipping Ptah, father of the gods, Ta-tenen, eldest of the originals, at daybreak. Recitation:
Greetings, Ptah, father of the gods, Ta-tenen, eldest of the originals, who begot himself by himself, without any developing having developed; who crafted the world in the design of his heart, when his developments developed. Model who gave birth to all that is, begetter who created what exists.
Greetings before your originals, whom you made after you developed in the god’s body.
Who built his body by himself, without the earth having developed, without the sky having developed, without the waters having been introduced.
You tied together the world, you totaled your flesh, you took account of your parts and found yourself alone, place-maker, god who smelted the Two Lands (…)
Everyone trembles when his Ba comes into being, Heka has control over the gods (…)
Partially taken from Allen, Genesis (1988), pp. 39-40, and Wolf, Der Berliner Ptah-Hymnus (1929), 40-41.
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