Atum
Americannoun
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The Smashing Pumpkins will drop the third album later this month in their Atum trilogy, a three-act rock opera so expansive that Corgan’s friends told him he should ease up his workload.
From Washington Times • Apr. 7, 2023
Atum is the sun god and the center of Heliopolitan theology and its creation myths.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022
Ancient Egyptian creation myth. The first god to emerge from chaos is named Atum.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2014
Ra or Phra was the mid-day sun; Osiris the declining sun; Tum or Atum the setting sun; and Amun the sun after it had sunk below the horizon.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
The obelisk was consequently dedicated to Horus, the god of the rising sun, while the pyramid, the house of the dead, was dedicated to Tum, or Atum, the god of the setting sun.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
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