The Mighty Word

Egyptian creation texts repeatedly stress the belief of creation by the Word. When nothing existed except the One, He created the universe with his commanding voice. In effect, He contained the potential existence of all things, and when He spoke, He and all things with Him came into objective existence. The Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth by Day (wrongly and commonly translated as The Book of the Dead), the oldest written text in the world, we read:
I am the Eternal ... I am that which created the Word ... I am the Word ...
In ancient Egypt, the words, revealed through Tehuti (equivalent to Hermes, or Mercury), became the things and creatures of this world.