Ptah

Ptah is the god of creation and technology.

Background
In the ancient past, Ptah sent a swarm of rats to drive back an army intent on invading his sacred city of Memphis.

The Throne of Fire
Sadie and Walt first saw his statue in a burial site under a water tower which the Sadie managed to destroy due to a spell. Hosted by a date farmer, he helped Sadie and Walt escape from Mad Claude and the mummies that attacked them when Sadie refused to surrender the ceremonial knife given to her by Anubis.

Personality
He likes answering the prayers of those who call them like, for example, Sadie and Walt and his city, Memphis.

Appearance
Ptah possesses a striking similarity to Osiris with his blue-toned skin but with milk-white eyes.

Powers and Abilities
Ptah can create things by speaking their names (such as once he made up the word 'platypus' for fun, and thus the platypus was born.) and he also has the ability to open portals at will.

Relationships
Ra: Ptah commented that he always liked Ra and got along with him. Presumable, he supported the return of Ra.

In Mythology
In Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ptah (Egyptian ptḥ, probably vocalized as Pitaḥ in ancient Egyptian) was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen (also spelled Tathenen, Tatjenen, etc.), meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land, though Tatenen was a god in his own right, before being assimilated with Ptah. Ptah also is referred to as the noble Djed.

It was said (in the Shabaka Stone) that it was Ptah who called the world into being, having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener, in the sense of opener of the mouth. Indeed the opening of the mouth ceremony, performed by priests at funerals to release souls from their corpses, was said to have been created by Ptah. Atum was said to have been created by Ptah to rule over the creation, sitting upon the primordial mound.

In art, he is portrayed as a bearded mummified man, often wearing a skull cap, with his hands holding an ankh, was, and djed, the symbols of life, power and stability, respectively. It was also considered that Ptah manifested himself in the Apis bull. He may have originally been a fertility god because of this. Stucco relief of Ptah with staff and ankh and djed. Late Period or Ptolemaic Dynasty, 4th to 3rd century BC.Since Ptah was the primordial mound, and had called creation into being, he was considered the god of craftsmen, and in particular stone-based crafts. Eventually, due to the connection of these things to tombs, and that at Thebes, the craftsmen regarded him so highly as to say that he controlled their destiny. Consequently, first amongst the craftsmen, then the population as a whole, Ptah also became a god of regeneration. Since Seker was also god of craftsmen, and of regeneration of the sun during the night, Seker was later assimilated with Ptah becoming Ptah-Seker.

Consequently, Ptah-Seker became considered an underworld deity, and eventually, by the Middle Kingdom, become assimilated by Osiris, the lord of the underworld, occasionally being known as Ptah-Seker-Osiris.

Trivia

 * The English name  Egypt  derives from an ancient Egyptian name for Memphis, Hikuptah, which means "Home of the Soul of Ptah". This entered Ancient Greek as Αιγυπτος (Aiguptos), which entered Latin as Ægyptus, which developed into English as Egypt.