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Ptah

noun

A major Egyptian god; shaper of the world; father of gods and men; worshipped especially at Memphis.

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"Ptah" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a scribe of the great temple of Ptah, and I was brought up to his trade in the school of the temple, where I copied many rolls and also wrote out Books of the Dead which I adorned with paintings. Indeed, in this business I became so clever that, after my father went blind some years before his death, I earned enough ...

— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard

... annals and Egyptian lore. She told her more of Baal, whose temple was in Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at Ascalon. She told her of the women who wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason of their tears. She told her of the union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, and of Neith, mother of the sun; of the holy incest of Isis and Osiris; and of Luz, called by the patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the foothold of a straight stairway ...

— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus

Words linked to "Ptah" : Egyptian deity