This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Ancient Egyptian Religion Hymns gathers three of the atlas's hymns surviving from ancient Egypt, each addressed to a different god and each reaching the atlas through a different kind of physical witness.
The Great Hymn to Osiris is carved on a private funerary stela and stands as the fullest connected Egyptian account of the Osiris story to survive from Egypt itself, though even here the god's murder and dismemberment are alluded to rather than narrated; it praises Osiris as lord of the dead and principle of vegetation and celebrates Isis for recovering his body and conceiving Horus. The continuous narrative most readers know instead comes from Plutarch, writing in Greek some fifteen hundred years later, which is why this stela matters as a native Egyptian source.
The Great Hymn to the Aten is the fullest surviving statement of the Amarna religion, addressed to the sun disc as sole creator and describing the world waking under its light, the animals, the ships, the chick in the egg and the foreign peoples given their own languages; cut in a private tomb at Amarna, it survived the erasure of Akhenaten because that tomb was abandoned unfinished. Its resemblance to Psalm 104 has been argued since the 1890s, and the parallels are real while the direction of any influence remains genuinely contested.
The Leiden Hymns to Amun survive as hymns numbered by chapters on a damaged Ramesside papyrus, praising Amun as the hidden one whose name is unknown even to the other gods and who made himself into millions; they contain some of the most abstract theological statements to survive from Egypt, including the formula that Amun, Ra and Ptah are three in respect of their names but one in being, a modern trinitarian comparison external to what the Egyptian text itself is doing.