I have done my will in everything in this earth. I have spread myself abroad therein, and I have made strong my hand. I was One by myself, for they (i.e., the gods) had not been brought forth, and I had emitted from myself neither Shu nor Tefnut. I brought my own name[1] into my mouth as a word of power, and I forthwith came into being under the form of things which are and under the form of Kheperȧ. I came into being from out of primeval matter, and from the beginning I appeared under the form of the multitudinous things which exist; nothing whatsoever existed at that time in this earth, and it was I who made whatsoever was made. I was One by myself, and there was no other being who worked with me in that place. I made all the things under the forms of which I appeared then by means of the Soul-God which I raised into firmness at that time from out of Nu, from a state of inactivity. I found no place whatsoever there whereon I could stand, I worked by the power of a spell by means of my heart, I laid a foundation [for things] before me, and whatsoever was made, I made. I was One by myself, and I laid the foundation of things [by means of] my heart, and I made the other things which came into being, and the things of Kheperȧ which were made were manifold, and their offspring came into existence from the things to which they gave birth. I it was who
- ↑ I.e., I uttered my own name from my own mouth as a word of power.
