African Cosmology Series Pt. 3: The Memphite Theology
This creation myth introduces a new player in the Cosmic "beginnings"
Throughout the different ages, as we have explored, cosmological stories were explained in different ways.
A common theme throughout was water being the source. Not only is this common to ancient Kemetic peoples, the Nile being a life source and its annual flooding being apart of their lives, but also the waters from which we came into this physical body: our mother's womb.
These Primordial Waters was the “beginning before the beginning”. Existence before existence existed. All that there ever was, is, and will ever be was unorganized, at first.
This “creation” from then to now has different variations, one of which we will explore today where Ptah plays the major rule.
Memphite Theology and the Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is where the ancient Memphite Theology was written.
It is said that this text is just a copy, a preservation move, if you will, of the original text that existed in the First Dynasty.
This is why when you look it up, it often considered the oldest books in the world.
The theology, what we are interested in for this series, is described in lines 48-64, with a summary after. Showing right there the organizational mind, the self preservation (intellectual “property”) rituals, the information lineage that was already inculcated into the culture.
What most people do not realize is Kemet’s ability to be an information hub, with people suited to the arid environment, was actually due to the environment itself.
The dry climate, with little to no humidity, made it an excellent preservation ground for scrolls, ancient texts and cultural knowledge to exist to this day. Of course, after the tomb raiders took black people’s property and in the name of “science”, preserved it in a museum. With no connection to it whatsoever. Anywho…
Plagiarized into European Texts (No Surprise)
Ptah is the one who is “self-created, self-existent, and living for eternity”. He represents that initial mover.
He is considered, in this context to be the unmoved mover. Out of him, came Atum (atom) which then gave birth to the Enead, also known as the Divine Company consisting of:
Atum
Shu
Tefnut
Nut
Geb
Ausar
Auset
Nephthys
Once again, we refer to the first Hermetic Law:
“The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental”
Out of Ptah's mind, he “summoned Atum out of the Primordial Waters of Nun”. (Igwebuike, pg. 77)
This emergence is what is referred to as Ptah's hill. On this hill is where Adam/Atum/Atom started naming all of the beings.
Now you can start to see where the Old Testament God, the Demiurgic Yahweh/Jehovah, starts to come in. The priest-perverted cosmology turns this into a monotheistic religion of control.
The creation of Heaven and Earth is attributed to one God, leading to Adam and then it all falls off. But then again, as with the innumerable amount of contradictions in the Bible, they refer to the council. Christians just gloss over this because they, nor the original priests who plagiarized our texts, could even fathom or put 2 and 2 together when it came to basic cosmology.
They knew that we were a polytheistic people, naturally, because we saw the harmony in nature; the consistency of principles on different planes of existence. Out of the One came Many but we did not seek to myopically control. Why do you think such mythologies and creation myths existed in the same place?
In reference to the multiple deities, the Bible still mentions:
Genesis 1:26 (KJV): Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.
Obviously, this spoke of many “lesser” deities, all of which, like we discussed in the Heliopolitan version, held the creative essence in them.
Plagiarism, by default, makes one forget the essence. With an ulterior motive, it lacks substance while trying to input its own. All of which could be expressed by reading the original text and integrating it into yourself.
Ptah, the Maker of Gods
Thus it is said of Ptah: "He who made all and created the gods." And he is Ta-tenen, who gave birth to the gods, and from whom everything came forth, foods, provisions, divine offerings, all good things. Thus is recognized and understood that he is the mightiest of the gods. Thus Ptah was satisfied after he had made all things and all divine words.
Sounds just like the God in Genesis, being satisfied with the results, his creations.
As we know, through basic comparative theology, we can see where Genesis derived its creations coming from the mouth of God by its repetitive use of “And God said…”.
However, what is interesting is how we get introduced into the anatomy that the ancient peoples of Kemet held as important.
There took shape in the heart, there took shape on the tongue the form of Atum. For the very great one is Ptah, who gave [life] to all the gods and their kas through this heart and through this tongue, in which Horus had taken shape as Ptah, in which Thoth had taken shape as Ptah.
This shows that the heart and tongue were very important. The heart was left in the bodies during mummification to preserve for the weighing ceremony with Ma'at.
If your heart was lighter than a feather, having released all earthly attachments, having no regrets nor soul contracts or “unfinished business”, you could proceed into the afterlife. This is what you would deem escaping the reincarnation cycle.
If your heart was heavier than a feather, your heart would be consumed by Ammut, the devourer of souls. This could be understood as coming right back here to release the “sins” of the soul, to release yourself from Earth, to peek more into the soul’s true nature and attach not to all this down here.
Golden tongues were used to enable the soul to speak in the afterlife.
But this is just showing the afterlife. Let's get back to “creation” and Ptah.
Thus heart and tongue rule over all the limbs in accordance with the teaching that it (the heart, or: he, Ptah) is in every body and it (the tongue, or: he Ptah) is in every mouth of all gods, all men, all cattle, all creeping things, whatever lives, thinking whatever it (or:he) wishes and commanding whatever it (or:he) wishes.
This shows the man being made in the likeness of God, or the gods. Also, this displays the communication aspect being the actual act and medium through which creation takes place.
The Throat Chakra, connected to the tongue, and also right above the Heart Chakra, shows that is the true beginning of spirituality, if you will.
Once one rises above his lower nature, and operated out of the Heart Chakra, that's when the soul is allowed to share of itself freely and express its individuality.
I am telling you all, we were a very advanced people because we knew the simplicities in life.
Needing credentials, going to college, using a whole lot of words, having references is all a complex myriad of bullshit that only works for those truly want to become white.
Real life, real things that matter, true spirituality involves the simple things in life.
Exploring the simple, and it's correspondences truly opens one to the abundance of knowledge in the Universe.
Overtaking, overexplaining, and closed-mindedness and nicheing down completely shuts down exploration.
This is why Europeans and Western society run around like little kids. They are immature spiritually, which is why their main focus is on material gain. Anywho…
Out of man's heart does one's true intentions develop. From your heart, do you express yourself.
This is why our sculptures involved us stepping with the left foot forward, that side associated with the heart. That is the true brain.
Atum’s Place in Memphite Theology
In our previous episode we spoke of Atum's penile projection, his act of masturbation inseminating the Primordial Waters making the gods after him.
In the Shabaka Stone, it's not talking down on the Heliopolitan version. It's piggybacking off of it. Extending it “backwards” by connecting it to the other head, the higher head.
Also let's bring in history real quick. Most people think black people are just spitting off at the mouth when referring to Europeans, white people, as thieves and having plagiarized our texts, creating nothing original.
“…the name of God Atom (sometimes spelt Atum) belongs to the cosmology of Memphite Theology, whose date goes back to 4000 B.C. when the Greeks were not even known.” - pg. 202, James’ Stolen Legacy
This text, has its original text dating back to the First Dynasty, which includes Atum in its text and summary.
4,000 B.C. That’s about 6,000 years ago.
And we already know that Kemet is just the mouthpiece of Africa. Meaning that we knew this knowledge for a long, long, time before Europeans were able to walk upright.
Also, Atum is considered the “all and the not yet Being”. (pg. 168 Frankfort’s Kingship of the Gods).
This is why Atum is considered that “beginning” of duality. “Being” and “not being” begins the Polarity spectrum. This Enead, including Ptah, lineates the Universe to its non-beginning beginning.
So you tell me, reader, how does Christianity hold up? Better yet, add Greek philosophy in there, which is also plagiarized Memphite Theology.
I could care less about Homer, Herodotus, Aristotle, etc. ALL of them must pay homage to black people. Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James is an excellent source that has you CLEARLY seeing that our knowledge was whitewashed. Nothing new. It's just in their nature.
I know that is a hurtful historical fact for most but it shows up consistently. Especially since propaganda and media portray post-slavery black people as having nothing to contribute to the world stage.
Well we shall continue to bring the scholarship, as Bobby used to say 🙏🏿 Go look it up for yourself since Western society deems nothing legit unless you can “cite your sources” 🤣
Until next time y'all!
Sources
Kingship and the Gods - Henri Frankfort
Stolen Legacy - George G.M. James
Igwubuike: Unifying Ancient Cosmologies In Order To Understand Light Frequencies and Evolution of Consciousness - Hilary Ugwu
👀 Keep an eye out for another upcoming series, one that involves exploring the original texts the Bible was sourced from. Just busting a hole wide open in the whole religious perpetuation of complete, utter bullshit 👀