101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

yth #5:
A firmament arose out of the primeval waters.
The Myth: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were
above the firmament: and it was so. (Gen. 1:6–7)
The Reality: This firmament arising out of the waters is the primeval mountain
of Egyptian myth.
After calling forth the first light and dividing the light from the darkness, Genesis
tells us that God caused a firmament to rise in the midst of the waters, and this firmament
divided the waters from the waters. As the verses quoted above clearly show, the
dividing of “the waters from the waters” refers to the separation of water above the firmament
from the water below the firmament.
In all the Egyptian Creation myths, following the appearance of the first light
(usually identified with the god Atum) the Creator god caused a mountain to emerge
out of the primeval waters. This mountain, by its nature, was a solid physical entity, a
firmament, and according to the Egyptian view, it separated the primeval waters into
waters above and waters below. The Egyptians viewed the sky as a waterway through
which the sun god Re sailed the solar barque.The primeval mountain became the space
in between the waters above and below and provided the force that held them apart.
The rising firmament in Genesis is indistinguishable from the primeval mountain
that emerged out of the Nun, the primeval waters, and in both the biblical and Egyptian
stories, the rising occurs in the same sequential order in the Creation process, after
the summoning forth of the first light by the spoken word.
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