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God Atum

Details about God Atum

  • 05 16, 2023

Details about God Atum

The god Atom, one of the ancient Egyptian gods, had blue hairs of lazuli, clad in his head when he created himself on top of the Ezli Hill. According to ancient Egyptian mythology, Atom, and the meaning of his full or complete name, created the world.

Afterwards, the blue appeared the hair color of many gods, such as the goddess Amnent, the protector of the dead, the goddess Isis, who guides the dead during the other life, the God of Tawah, the Lord of Industries and the Arts, the God of the Earth, and then the blue color of heaven and water, because in the cosmic sense of life and fertility, blue is naturally the symbol of the Nile and its associated crops.

Because of his divinity, the ancient Egyptians believed that this color would pay them hard luck and protect against the evil of envy, It brings reassurance and peace of mind, and so blue became associated in ancient Egypt with divinity, He bears a character of holiness that has only grown stronger over the ages for other reasons. So the ancient Egyptians tried to move color from a mere colour in nature to a dye material used in their daily lives.

The name "Atom" refers to perfection, meaning "complete/complete", where the ancient Egyptians believed that he had created himself from himself on top of the Eternal Hill, and was thus the creator of the world, and had merged with God Ra and was known as "Atom Ra".

In the first part of the encyclopedia "Ancient Egypt", entitled "In the prehistoric era to the end of the humane era", it was "Atom" or "Done", which is represented in the form of an animal similar to the current "Pharaoh Fugitive"; Because, as the myths said, he was swallowing the snake that wanted to swoop on Atom and swallow it at sunset.

The fact that this animal appears only at sunset and robs the snakes; He also represented Atom as a crowned man with King's badges; That's because they thought he was the king of the gods. When they represented "Ra", the sun god, they saw the red disk of the sun swimming in the sky in his ship.

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God Atum is an important deity in ancient Egyptian mythology, often referred to as the creator god and seen as the first and original god of the universe.

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