He was Nu at the beginning. 

The world 

a great water of waste.

A great waste of water.

A dark star in space

A serpent who appears as 

both mother and father.

Poised upon her toes to where she rests upon the Western Horizon upon her finger tips. NUT forms the vault of the sky. Ra is borne throughout the darkness and men followed him until he appears again and sheds light upon the earth.

The Shimmering Egg from which the God Of Brightness first appeared is Ra the diviner, father and ruler of gods.

That which he named had being, his gaze into space appears before him as all-human-kind born from his eye. He bade the heavens and earth to rise out of Nu.

From the Divine Waters the Celestial Mother lifted Ra upon her back. Ra, upon the nature of his being utters the words that come to being.

"Lo ! I am Kheper at dawn, Ra at noon-tide and Tum at eventide."

Each day Ra walked forth, and the gods who were of his train followed him, and he sat upon his throne.

Those who he first created according to his desire were Shu and his consort Tefnut. Seb and Nut became the parents of Osiris, Isis, Set and Nepthys.

To Osiris will be given power over the dead and Horus will be exalted on the throne which is set upon the island of firery flames.

Ra spake again and called forth the god Thoth who came into being by his word.

"For thee, O Thoth I shall make a resplendent abode in the great deep and the underworld which is Duat. Thou shalt record the sin and splendor of men."

So came into being by his power the Ibis, the Crane, and the Dog Ape, the messengers of Thoth.

"Thy beauty shall be shed through the darkness; thou shalt join night with day."

So came into being Ah, the the moon of Thoth. When all the land is black, the sun-bark of Ra passes through the tweleve-divisions of night in Duat. At eventide, when Tum is old and frail, five-and-seventy invocations are chanted to give him power to overcome the demons of darkness. He enters the Western gate, through which dead men's souls pass to be judged. Before him goes Anubis, for he is the Opener of the Ways. When the sun bark enters the river of the underworld the companions of Ra are with him.

The darkness of the first-division is scattered by the brighness of Ra. Besides sek-met gather the pale shades of the newly dead.

At the end of the first-division is a high and strong wall, and a gate is opened by incantations so the bark of Ra may pass through. So from division to division, all throught the perlious night, the sun god proceeds, and the number of demons that must be overcome by magic.

Apophis, the great White serpent, ever seeks to overcome Ra.

Fith hour-division is the domain of dreaded Sokar, the underworld god, with three human heads. His abode is in a dark and secret place which is guarded by fierce sphinxes. Night to him is the drowning Pool, watched over by five gods with bodies like to men and animals' heads. Strange and mysterious forms hover nigh, and in the pool are genii their heads aflame with everlasting fire.

In the seventh hour-division sits Osiris, divine judge of the dead. Firery serpents, which are many-headed, obey his will.

Whom Osiris, divine judge, deems to be worthy, he favors; such shall live in the Nether World: whom he finds full of sin, he rejects and these do the serpents fall upon dragging him away. 

In this division of peril the darksome Night seppent Apophis attacks the sun bark (sek-met), curling its great body round the compartment of Ra with ferocious intent to devour him. But the allies of the god contend against the serpent; they stab it with Knives until it is overcome

Isis utters mighty incantations which cause the sun bark to sail onward unscathed or stayed.

In the eighth division are serpents which spit forth fire to illumine the darkness, and in the tenth are fierce water reptiles and ravenous fishes. The god Horus burns great beacons in the eleventh hour; ruby flames and flames of gold blaze aloft in beauty: the enemies of Ra are consumed in the fires of Horus.

The sun god is reborn in the twelfth hour-division. He enters the tail of the mighty serpent, which is named Divine Life, and issues from its mouth in the form of Khepera, the beetle. Those who are with the god are reborn also

The last door of all is guarded by Isis, wife and sister of Osiris, and Nepthys, wife and sister of Set, in the form of serpents. They enter the sun bark with Ra.

Now Urnes the river of Duat, flows into the primeval ocean in which Nu must abode. And as Ra was lifted out of the deep at the beging, so he is lifted by Nu at dawn. he is then received bu Nut, goddess of the heavens; he is born of Nut and grows in majesty, ascending to high noon.

The souls of the dead utter a loud lamentation when then the sun god departs out of the darkness of Duat.