Ptah

[ ptah, ptahkh ]

noun

1. an ancient Egyptian deity, believed to be a universal creator and sometimes identified with other gods: worshiped especially at Memphis when it was the royal residence.

Ptah

/ tɑː; ptɑː /

noun

1. (in ancient Egypt) a major god worshipped as the creative power, esp at Memphis

Example Sentences

Like Ptah, Ea also developed from an artisan god into a sublime Creator in the highest sense, not merely as a producer of crops.

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But this gold I bring is more than all the store of it upon Ptah before I came.

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Represented with the head and legs of a man the scarab was an emblem of Ptah.

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Fortunately for us, while to his son Ptah Hotep was very probably an old man, he was not what most of us would call old.

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It was also the emblem of Ptah Tore, of Memphis, another symbolic form of the creative power.

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