Sep Tepi.

Much of philosophy as well as religion focuses on theories of creation. Egyptians described the world's origin with the phrase, sep tepi ("the first time"). This phrase suggests that creation was not a single isolated event. Instead they saw it as an event that was endlessly repeated, though it had had one original enactment. The Egyptologist Erik Hornung suggested that this vision of creation allowed the Egyptians to conceive the world as repeatedly new and that this was a source of their personal creativity.

Accounts.

In the early periods of their history, the Egyptians did not write one connected account that described creation. At the end of their history, in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (332 B.C.E.–395 C.E.), some accounts were carved on the walls of temples. In the Pharaonic period (3000–332 B.C.E...