Hymn to Ptah

Hymn to Ptah
"Hail to thee, thou who art great and old, Ta-tenen, father of the gods, the great god from the first primordial time who fashioned mankind and made the gods, who began evolution in primordial times, first one after whom everything that appeared developed, he who made the sky as something that his heart has created, who raised it by the fact that Shu supported it, who founded the earth through that which he himself had made, who surrounded it with Nun and the sea, who made the nether world and gratified the dead, who causes Re to travel thither in order to resuscitate them as lord of eternity and lord of boundlessness, lord of life, he who lets the throat breathe and gives air to every nose, who with his food keeps all mankind alive, to whom lifetime, limitation of time and evolution are subordinate, through whose utterance one lives, he who creates the offerings for all the gods in his guise the great Nun, lord of eternity, to whom boundlessness is subordinate, breath of life for everyone who conducts the king to his great seat in his name, 'King of the Two Lands'."