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Ptah (/ t ɑː / TAH; [1] Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, reconstructed; Ancient Greek: Φθά, romanized: Phthá; Coptic: ⲡⲧⲁϩ, romanized: Ptah; Phoenician: 𐤐𐤕𐤇, romanized: ptḥ) [2] [3] [note 1] is an ancient Egyptian deity, a creator god [4] and patron deity of craftsmen and architects.
By speaking these names, Ptah produced the gods and all other things. [25] The Memphite creation myth coexisted with that of Heliopolis, as Ptah's creative thought and speech were believed to have caused the formation of Atum and the Ennead. [26] Ptah was also associated with Tatjenen, the god who personified the pyramidal mound. [25]
Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them [24] Nefertem – A god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time Son of Ptah and Sekhmet [25] Osiris – A god of death and resurrection who rules Duat and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [26]
Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and his left the Moon; Khepri, god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life; Ptah, god of craftsmanship, the arts, and fertility, sometimes said to represent the Sun at night; Ra, god of the Sun; Sekhmet, goddess of war and of the Sun, sometimes also plagues and creator ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Nun, the embodiment of the primordial waters, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra into the sky at the moment of creation. Part of a series on Ancient Egyptian religion Beliefs Afterlife Creation myths Isfet Maat Maa Kheru Mythology Numerology Osiris myth Philosophy Soul Practices Canopic ...
Depiction of Ptah-Tatenen-Osiris [5] Both Tatenen and Ptah were Memphite deities. Tatenen was the more ancient, combined in the Old Kingdom with Ptah as Ptah-Tatenen, in their capacity as creator deities. [2] By the Nineteenth Dynasty Ptah-Tatenen is his sole form, and he is worshiped as royal creator god.
The djed came to be associated with Seker, the falcon god of the Memphite Necropolis, then with Ptah, the Memphite patron god of craftsmen. [7] Ptah was often referred to as "the noble djed", and carried a scepter that was a combination of the djed symbol and the ankh, the symbol of life. [3] Ptah gradually came to be assimilated into Osiris.
He was seen as the son of the Creator god Ptah, as well as the feline goddess (Bast in Lower Egypt or Sekhmet in Upper Egypt) whose nature he shared. Maahes was a deity associated with war, protection, and weather, as well as that of knives, lotuses, and devouring captives.