/lit/ - Literature

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The Nine Great Gods were drawn from your person,
and in each you shadowed your features;
But it was you shone first
when you fashioned the world long ago,
O unseen God
who hides Himself from all others.
Ancient of ancients,
elder even than they,
earth god who fashioned Himself into Ptah,
The very parts of whose body are primeval gods;
who rose as the Sun amid chaos
To betoken rebirth
and the rhythms of resurrection;
Sowed the seed of the cosmos as Atum, the Old One,
from whose godhead were moisture and air,
Shu and Tefnut, the primordial couple.
He ascended in splendor His throne
as His heart had determined,
by His power, alone, overruled all existence,
United Himself and kingship forever
to remain, to the end of days, sole Lord.
But in the Beginning, Light!
Light was His first incarnation;
and the incipient world lay hushed
waiting in awe of Him;
And He cried the glad cry of the Great Cackler
over the nomes of His new creation
while He was still alone.
He loosened speech:
words flowed in the chambers of silence;
He opened each eye
that it might behold and be gladdened.
Sounds of the voiceless world began with Him:
the victory shout of unparalleled God
shattered silence and circled the world.
He nurtured to birth all things
that He might offer them life,
and he taught men to know the Way,
the path they each must go.
Hearts come alive when they see Him,
for He is our Procreator, the Power
who peopled the dark with His children.