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 I have done my will in everything in this earth. I have spread myself abroad therein, and I have made strong my hand. I was by myself, for they (i.e., the gods) had not been brought forth, and I had emitted from myself neither Shu nor Tefnut. I brought my own name into my mouth as a word of power, and I forthwith came into being under the form of things which are and under the form of Kheperȧ. I came into being from out of primeval matter, and from the beginning I appeared under the form of the multitudinous things which exist; nothing whatsoever existed at that time in this earth, and it was I who made whatsoever was made. I was by myself, and there was no other being who worked with me in that place. I made all the things under the forms of which I appeared then by means of the Soul-God which I raised into firmness at that time from out of Nu, from a state of inactivity. I found no place whatsoever there whereon I could stand, I worked by the power of a spell by means of my heart, I laid a foundation [for things] before me, and whatsoever was made, I made. I was by myself, and I laid the foundation of things [by means of] my heart, and I made the other things which came into being, and the things of Kheperȧ which were made were mani­fold, and their offspring came into existence from the things to which they gave birth. I it was who