A product of the energy and matter contained in this chaos, he created his children—the first deities, out of loneliness. Dive into this timeless narrative! Ancient egyptian myth tells the story of an atum that will end the world, returning it to the endless primordial waters that existed before the world began
Atum was part of the great ennead, a group of nine deities worshipped at heliopolis. Explore the myth of atum, the first god in ancient egyptian mythology, and discover his role in creation and the universe Atum, in ancient egyptian religion, one of the manifestations of the sun and creator god, perhaps originally a local deity of heliopolis