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
