God Petah

God Petah .... Ptah (Pteh, Peteh) was the predynastic Mennefer (Hikuptah, Memphis) god of craftsmen, pottery and creation. The Egyptians believed that he was a god who created everything from artifacts to the world egg to the other deities themselves. The Opening of the Mouth ceremony was believed to have been devised by him. He was a god of creation and rebirth. Ptah was usually depicted as a bearded mummiform man, wearing a close fitting skull cap. Only his hands come out of his shroud, and he was usually shown holding a staff that incorporated the djed pillar, the ankh symbol and the was scepter. The origin of Ptah's name is unclear, though some believe it to mean 'opener' or 'sculptor'. As a god of craftsmen, the later is probably correct. He was a patron of the arts, protector of stonecutters, sculptors, blacksmiths, architects, boat builders, artists and craftsmen. His high priest was given the title wr khrp hmw, 'Great Leader of Craftsmen', and his priests were probably linked to the different crafts. It was believed that Ptah invented masonry and that it was he who crafted the boats that the dead used to travel to the Duat. The Book of the Dead describes him as: ...a master architect, and framer of everything in the universe... -- Egypt - Myths and Legends, Lewis Spence It was believed that Ptah created the heavens and the earth while Khnum fashioned the animals and people on his pottery wheel. Ptah created the giant metal plate that was believed to be the floor of heaven and the roof of the sky, he also created the struts that upheld it. He created the universe by speaking words through his Tongue (linked to the god Thoth and the goddess Tefnut) and by thoughts coming from his Heart (linked to Horus the Elder). There came into being as the heart and there came into being as the tongue ... in the form of Atem. The mighty Great One is Ptah, who transmitted [life to all gods], as well as (to) their kas... (Thus) it happened that the heart and tongue gained control over [every] (other) member of the body, by teaching that he [i.e., Ptah] is in every body and in every mouth of all gods, all men, [all] cattle, all creeping things, and (every thing) that lives, by thinking and commanding everything that he wishes... Thus all the gods were formed and his Ennead was completed. Ptah tient un sceptre composite rassemblant le sceptre ouas, la croix ânkh et le signe djed (symbole de stabilité). Dieu : barbe droite (exception)

the statue of the god Ptah, each presented in reproduction exposure was carried out under the supervision of a committee scientific. Original gilt wood inlaid with glass and earthenware, copper accessories. H. 60.2 cm. Ptah - Exposition trésors de Toutânkhamon 2012 – Paris statue of Ptah,

Gilded wood statue of Ptah, with bronze Was scepter, inlaid with gold at the Cairo Museum

Top and bottom (center part restored) of a faience votice Was-scepter, excavated at Faras in Nubia, Late period, at the Metropolitan Museum

Ptah Ptah was head of three gods and goddesses who were worshipped at Memphis (near modern-day Cairo); the other two were his wife, Sekhmet, a lion-headed goddess who brought destruction upon the enemies of the god Re; and their son, the lotus god, Nefertem. Ptah was depicted as a mummified man standing inside a shrine, and held a measuring rod to signify that he was patron-god of craftsmen. He was a creatorgod who, according to the Memphite Theology recorded on the so-called Shabaka Stone (now in the British Museum), brought the world into being through thought and speech. He became identified with Sokar, the god of the necropolis, at Memphis, and as Ptah-Sokar became a god of the dead. The Greeks equated him with Hephaestus, god of metalworking.

. ،‫ فتكلمها فكانت‬،‫ بعدما رأى الخليقة في قلبه أثناء منامه‬،‫نادي پتاح على الدنيا إلى الوجود‬ ‫ التي كان يؤديها الكهنة في‬،‫ ولذا فإن طقوس فتح الفم‬.(‫لذا فاسمه يعني الفاتح )كفاتح فاه‬ ‫ أول من بدأها كان خلقه پتاح ليحكم الخليقة بينما هو‬،‫الجنازات ليطلقوا الروح من الجسد‬ ‫جالس فوق الربوة المقدسة‬. Ptah conceives the world by the thought of his heart and gives life through the magic of his Word. That which Ptah commanded was created, with which the constituents of nature, fauna, and flora, are contained. He also plays a role in the preservation of the world and the permanence of the royal function.

Statuette of Amun, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, ca. 945–715 B.C. Egyptian Gold; H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.1412)

"Statuette of Amun [Egyptian]" (26.7.1412) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York