
The Eight were Your first manifestation until You completed these, You being Single
Secret was Your body among the elders,
and You kept Yourself hidden as Amun, at the head of the gods.
You made Your manifestations in Tatenen,
to accompany the primeval ones in Your first primeval time.
Your beauty arose as the Bull of His Mother.
You withdrew as the one in the sky, enduring as Re.
You returned in fathers, maker of their sons, to make an excellent heritage for Your children.
You began manifestation with nothing,
without the world being empty of You on the first occasion
All gods came into existence after You
The Ennead combined is Your body.
Every god joined in Your body, is Your image.
You emerged first, You inaugurated from the start.
Amun, whose name is hidden from the gods.
Oldest elder, more distinguished than these,
Tatenen, who formed Himself by Himself as Ptah
The toes of His body are the Eight.
He appeared as Re, from Nun, so that He might rejuvenate.
He sneezed as Atum, from His mouth HE gave birth to Shu and Tefnut, combined in manifestation.
He appears on His throne as His heart prompts.
Who, through His power, rules for Himself all that is.
Who binds together for Himself the kingship for ever,
down to eternity, established as Sole Lord
Light was His coming into existence on the first occasion,
with all that exists in stillness for awe of Him.
He honked by voice, as the Great Honker,
coming into a land that He created for Himself, while He was Alone.
He began speaking in the midst of silence,
opening every eye and causing them to look.
He began crying out while the world was in stillness,
His yell circulated while He had no second,
so that He might give birth to what is and cause them to live,
and cause every man to know the way to walk.
Their hearts live when they see Him.
His are the effective forms of the Ennead
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