Ben-Ben the first Manifestation

the state of non-being is the state before creation started, creation first begins as a stirring or an awakening. The creator-god becomes aware of itself (Sia) and speaks (Hu) to the waters around it. Thus the creator-god becomes the active principal that had formerly been laying dormant in the passive. When the waters answer the two forces divide because of their awareness of the other, and creation can begin. The breathing of Ma’at represents the act of order coming with life out of chaos.

From the ancient sea, Ra, also referred to as Tem or Atum, emerged on the first mound of earth that rose from the ocean’s depths. This mound was called the Ben-Ben, “the dwelling place of the Sun God”. This moment of emergence is of extreme importance in Egyptian Religion because this was Tep Zepi, “the first time”. it is a mythological era of the first creation, the era of the adventures of the gods. The events that created a pattern of and a stand for later times. Tep Zepi is the frozen time, not situated in the domain of linear time, but in a nontemporal domain, like the "once upon a time" in our own myths an fairy tales.

The Egyptian creation myths envisioned the first place in the world as a mound of earth emerging from the waters of a universal ocean. temples sometimes incorporated a mound of earth as a symbol of the original site of all life. The earliest such mounds may have been a small hill of earth or sand, but the icon eventually took the form of a small pyramid carved from a single block of stone, known as a bnbn (benben). This name comes from the root, bn, which means to "sell up" or "swell forth". The benben also, because of the sun's part in creation, came to be an icon of both the primeval mound as well as the sun which rose from it.

The Egyptian word for the rising sun is wbn, which comes from the same root as benben. the benben was more than just an image. Like the primeval mound itself, the Egyptians thought that it somehow incorporated the very power of life itself and even the force that made it possible for new life to emerge after a period of dormancy.

This was the first sunrise, with the Ben-Ben being the first manifestation out of the sea of chaos, Ma’at - order - was established. From here all of creation, all that is manifest in the universe, began.