The Heart and Tongue – How God Created the Cosmos

The Heart and Tongue – How God Created the Cosmos.

The power of the spoken word is significant in the creation of the world in many mythologies.

In Kemetic beliefs its is Atum the Hidden god who is created with creation.

Atum himself is a product of the Vibration created by the Primordial beings of the Ogdoad cosmology. He becomes self-aware and speaks himself into existence.

 

With the help of the Ogdoad he would create all other things.

 

The intellectual powers that enable the creator to bring him or herself into existence and to create all other beings with sometimes conceptualize as deities.

 

The most important of these gods were Sia, Hu and Heka.

 Sia was the power of perception or insight which allowed the creator to visualize other forms.

Hu was the power of authoritative speech which enabled the creator to bring things into being by naming them.

 In coffin text spell 335 Hu and Sia are said to be with their father Atum every day. In illustrated underworld books of the new Kingdom these two deities were often shown accompanying the creator sun God.

 

The power by which thoughts and commands of the creator become reality was Hekka or magic. In coffin tech spells 261 the God Heka claims to have been with the creator even in the primeval era.

 

 In the cosmology of Neith this goddess creates the whole world with seven magic words.

When Auset came to be worshipped as a creator deity during the same. She was called mistress of the word in the beginning.

 

 From at least as early as the new Kingdom the God Ptah could represent the creative mind then Sia and Hu were identified as the heart and tongue of Ptah. This concept is expounded in the Memphite theology and in the various hymns of Ptah. The ancient Egyptians believe that the heart was the organ of thought and feeling.

 

  Ptah was said to have made the world after planting it in his heart. It was through what the heart plans and the tongue commands that everything was made.

 

Bible account “In the begin was the word, and the word was God and God was the word.”

 

According to Bambara  legend, in the beginning there was nothing but the emptiness of the void. The universe began from a single point of sound—the sound Yo. Everything—including human consciousness—came from this root sound. Yo—the primeval creative spirit—created the structure of the heavens, the Earth, and all living and nonliving things