The ancient Egyptian believed the earth emerged from the sea of chaos and was like an egg guarded at night by the moon which were described as being "a great white bird.like a goose brooding over her egg." The concept of the Earth and eggs rising out of the sea is thought to have developed from the observation of fertile silted mounds emerging from the Nile when the flood waters receded. Later the Egyptians believed their sun God carried the sun in his chariot, a chore also performed by the Greek god Apollo. The sun was pushed above the horizon by a hawk and then pushed across the sky by a scarab beetle the same way it rolls its dung. The sky was supported on four poles or mountain ranges.
According to Egyptian mythology, the Nile divided the world in two. Īs recorded in colorful paintings in the tombs of the pharaohs, the Egyptians believed that the cosmos consisted of a dome of heaven supported by the god of Air.
Ra then transformed himself into man, thus becoming the first pharaoh. After filling the world with beautiful things Ra said the words "man" and "women" and thus people were created. And when he the shouted "Hapi" the sacred river Nile began flowing through Egypt. When he cried "Nut" the goddess of the sky took her place between the horizons. "I am Khepera at the dawn, and Ra at noon and Tum in the evening," he declared and the first day was created. He was so powerful that all he had to do was say the name of something and it came into being. Raising of the Sun According to ancient Egyptian creation myth, before the world emerged from the waters of chaos the Sun god Ra appeared. EGYPTIAN CREATION MYTH, THE SUN AND THEIR CONCEPT OF THE UNIVERSE