God Atum |
A 20th Dynasty (1196-1070 B.C.E.) papyrus that was replicated in the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 B.C.E.) nations that Atum developed alone, placing of the chaos of Nun. He engendered the gods Shu and Tefnut. They created Geb and Nut, who begat Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. These gods processed the Ennead of Heliopolis, joined by Horus or Ra. For this reason Atum was named "the plural of the plural".
In the Old Kingdom period (2575-2134 B.C.E.), Atum was related with the cult of Ra, idolized as Atum-R. He was drawn as a man hard the double crown of Egypt and having a royal scepter and the Ankh. Atum was a work of the deity Ra as the setting sun, and he also come out as a mongoose. The creator of all of the Nile deities, Atum was later connected with cults of Ptah and then Osiris.