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Spell 17 — The Creation

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1895

In the beginning there was Nun, the primordial waters, and in those waters there was no form and no light and no sound. Then from those waters rose Atum, self-created, and he created Shu and Tefnut, and from Shu and Tefnut came Geb the Earth and Nut the Sky, and from Geb and Nut came Osiris and Isis and Set and Nephthys. All things came from the first word spoken upon the first water.