A manuscript found in this god's temple provides the source material for the tablet that describes Geb's division of Egypt between two younger gods; that tablet is the Shabaka stone.
A manuscript found in this god's temple provides the source material for the tablet that describes Geb's division of Egypt between two younger gods; that tablet is the Shabaka stone. Steles for this god often featured carved ears to better allow him to hear prayers. Sometimes depicted as a mutated dwarf, he fathered a beautiful god who wears a blue lotus headdress. Other offspring of this god include the retributive Mahes and the man who designed Zoser's pyramid at Saqqara, the architect Imhotep. In one story, this god fashioned Ramses II's body out of electrum. After this deity was syncretized with Seker and Osiris, he carried the "was" staff, the ankh, and the djed. Married to the lion-headed Sekhmet, he had periodic incarnations as the Apis bull. This green-faced god of craftsmen was the head of the Ennead of Memphis. For 10 points, who is this Egyptian human-form deity who created the world with his thought?
A manuscript found in this god's temple provides the source material for the tablet that describes Geb's division of Egypt between two younger gods; that tablet is the Shabaka stone.
Ptah [or Pteh; or Peteh]