Benben
Sign in to saveIn the creation myth of the Heliopolitan form of ancient Egyptian religion, Benben was the mound that arose from the primordial waters (Nu), and upon which the creator deity Atum settled. The Benben stone is associated with the top stone of a pyramid, which is called a pyramid's pyramidion (or benbenet). It is also related to the obelisk.
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- Pyramid.name
- Benben
- Pyramid.image
- Pyramidion-satellite-khéops.jpg
- Pyramid.caption
- Reconstructed apex of one of the pyramids (G1-d) of the Giza Plateau, symbolizing Benben.
- Pyramid.type
- Mound
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In the creation myth of the Heliopolitan form of ancient Egyptian religion, Benben was the mound that arose from the primordial waters (Nu), and upon which the creator deity Atum settled. The Benben stone is associated with the top stone of a pyramid, which is called a pyramid's pyramidion (or benbenet). It is also related to the obelisk.
==Primeval mound== thumb|280px|Pyramidion of Amenemhat III from the Black Pyramid, Twelfth Dynasty. [[Egyptian Museum, Cairo.]] In the Pyramid Texts, e.g. Utterances 587 and 600, Atum himself is at times referred to as "mound". It was said to have turned into a small pyramid, located in Heliopolis (Egyptian: Annu or Iunu), within which Atum was said to dwell. Other cities developed their own myths of the primeval mound. At Memphis, the god Tatenen, an earth god and the origin of "all things in the shape of food and viands, divine offers, all good things", was the personification of the primeval mound.