Atum

Self-created Heliopolitan demiurge and head of the Ennead.

Parentage

• parent: Nun

Children

• Shu
• Tefnut

Domains

• creation
• completeness
• setting sun

Powers

• Bringing himself into being from the primeval waters
• Generating Shu and Tefnut without a consort
• Descend as the evening sun returning to the primeval waters

Epithets

• nb tꜣwy jwnw egyptian · neb tawy Iunu · cultLord of the Two Lands and of Heliopolis; the Heliopolitan demiurgePyramid Texts (the Heliopolitan Ennead); Coffin Texts (primary)
• ḫpr-ḏs.f egyptian · kheper-djesef · cultHe who came into being of himself; the self-created oneCoffin Texts spell 714; Pyramid Texts utterance 600 (primary)
• nb r-ḏr egyptian · neb er-djer · hymnicLord to the limit / lord of all; the totality of creationcf. Allen, Genesis in Egypt; Heliopolitan creation texts (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: KhnumFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: NeithFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: RaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nun) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 600 (primary)