Ptah
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A god of creativity and craftsmen, sometimes also identified with the gods of death and the birth of the sun. Egyptian
Synonyms
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More examples"Indeed, by now, although the god of the Shepherds was Baal, to whom they gave the name of Set because already it was well known upon the Nile, the Shepherd kings re-built the temples of Ra and Amun and Ptah, of Isis and of Hathor, that their forefathers had destroyed when first they invaded Egypt, and themselves made offerings in them, acknowledging these divinities."
Etymology
From Egyptian ptḥ.
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