Ptah
c. 2900 BCE – 400 CEattested
Memphis
- Egyptian
Creator god of Memphis and patron of craftsmen, who made the world by conceiving it in his heart and speaking it with his tongue. That is creation by thought and word, written down a thousand years before Genesis.
Known for
- creation by heart and tongue
- patron of craftsmen
- the word that makes things
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.