Ptah
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.
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Like Ptah, Ea also developed from an artisan god into a sublime Creator in the highest sense, not merely as a producer of crops.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieBut this gold I bring is more than all the store of it upon Ptah before I came.
Pharaoh's Broker | Ellsworth DouglassRepresented with the head and legs of a man the scarab was an emblem of Ptah.
Scarabs | Isaac MyerFortunately for us, while to his son Ptah Hotep was very probably an old man, he was not what most of us would call old.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshIt was also the emblem of Ptah Tore, of Memphis, another symbolic form of the creative power.
Scarabs | Isaac Myer
British Dictionary definitions for Ptah
/ (ptɑː, tɑː) /
(in ancient Egypt) a major god worshipped as the creative power, esp at Memphis
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