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Masturbation And Creation

Christians believed that God spoke the world into existence; Genesis tells us that God said, “Let there be light,” before a succession of other statements which literally spoke everything into existence through the use of mere words.

The formless chaos became formed and predictable, and life came into existence. But the ancient Egyptians were not prudent; they were a lot kinkier and a lot more bizarre. In one ancient Egyptian creation myth, the world and all of creation came into existence through nothing other than an act of masturbation.

(And here we thought masturbation was a useless endeavor.) Somewhat similar to the Christian telling of creation, in the Egyptian version, the universe began as absolute nothingness, like the formless abyss of the Christian tale, but there was one living god, Atum , who masturbated, and through that act, he gave birth to a pair of twin gods. Thus, the first act of creation was performed.[1] This myth laid the groundwork for what would be a uniquely strange culture in the way of sex, and it would actually be present in other sex rituals that people would perform.

Pharaoh Masturbation

From this myth came sexual practices and ceremonies that involved masturbation, which the ancient Egyptians saw as a life-giving process of creation. The ancient world, especially ancient Egypt, was obsessed with growth, birth, creation, and that which gave life, with many myths and legends springing up in and around the concept of fertility. So, in a way, it shouldn't come as a surprise, regardless of how bizarre it is to us today, that the pharaohs of ancient Egypt are said to have ceremoniously masturbated into the Nile river, which was also revered for its life- giving properties.[

2]The symbolism here is quite powerful when we consider the fact that the ancients viewed time in a circular format, rather than a linear succession of moments. In fact, the ancient Egyptian word for “semen,” “progeny,” and describing the floods of the Nile were all the same word, mtwt. The ancient Egyptians knew the life-giving, fertilizing ways of the predictable floods of the Nile—and they saw the same properties in semen.