important categories of creation myths include the divine parent stories, the divine word stories, and myths that focus on origins in some sort of cosmic egg.
In the Egyptian myth that tells the story of Ra, the Sun God and basic creator god of that tradition, Ra is not actually the first aspect of existence. His father Nun, the waters, preceded him, but it is Ra who is considered to be the creator.
All of the stories have this in common. They do not emerge from nothingness, but from something. For the most part, they emerge from the waters, of various kinds, and continue on to create various aspects of the world and the vario
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