There are many creation myths that have developed in various places in Egypt. Myths are all central to their story a primordial mound know as "the Island of Creation." It was the purpose of religion to recreate that time that caused the Egyptians to be very traditional in their beliefs. Each of the great myths of creation said the local temple of their god / s was the physical location of the island. Three great stories that have developed during the Old Kingdom were the Heliopolitan myth, the myth of Memphis, and the myth Hermopolitan.
Each was named after the city where the myth developed respectively. The Heliopolitan myth developed in Heliopolis and centered around Re-Atum as the figurehead of god. According to myth, Re-Atum willed into existence. The myth of the origin of Memphis in Memphis. According to this myth, it was Ptah who was the supreme creator god. The myth was developed Hermopolitan Hermopolis. Here, the god Thoth, god of wisdom, was the main actor.
According to Egyptian mythology, Khnum created the living beings on his potter's wheel. He modeled animals, plants and peoples of the earth. A detailed description of how he created human beings is at Esna Temple. He describes how he directs blood flow to cover the bones, and makes the skin surround the body. He then makes the respiratory system and digesting food. The main creator god in ancient Egyptian religion was the sun god in the Egyptian language, the word sun is Ra, and it was a name for the sun-god, but he was also regularly called Atum, the word md complete ".
Name Atum seems meant to evoke any matter as concentrated in the creator before creation emerged. Creation is a process that unfolds to, with all the undivided gradually fission separable entities. In agreement with the ancient Egyptians polytheistic beliefs Shu and Tefnut gave birth to the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb, and so the physical universe was created. Ra appears to rest while his son and daughters complete the task of creation.
In an Egyptian creation myth, the sun god Ra in the form of Khepri, the scarab god who was generally credited as the great creative force of the universe. Khepri tells us that at first he is nothing. It was the abyss known as Nu, where he gets later, the materials needed to create everything. By the use of magic Khepri creates land with its foundation in Maat (law, order and stability). At that time alone is Khepri. Khepri wept profusely, and her tears sprang men and women.