"Since I am one of the sons of the great,

why did the living fire change?"

When Ptahil-Uthra spoke so,

Ruha felt herself strengthened.

Ruha felt herself strengthened,

and her soul took on pride.

She said: "His splendour has changed,

lack and fault have arisen in his splendour."

She arose, destroyed her possessions

and clothed herself in a wide garment;

she changed her spirit into pride

and presented herself as she was not.

She spoke to the warrior,

the foolish one, without sense or understanding.

She spoke to him:

"Arise, see how the splendour of the strange man has diminished,

how lack and fault have formed in his splendour.

Arise, sleep with your mother,

that you may be freed from the fetter with which you are bound,

which is stronger than all the world."

When the wicked one heard this,

he shook himself with his bones,

and by their evil union Ruha conceived seven shapes.

After seven days she was in travail

and bore the despicable ones,

she bore the planets,

from whom the seven shapes proceeded.

When she saw them,

her heart fell from its support.

She said:

"I spoke, but it was not told me;

what I wanted has not come to be,

no one is like another."

When Ruha spoke so,

her children rebelled.

They rebelled and denied their father.

Ptahil washed his hands in the turbid water

and said:

"Let there be an earth,

as it was in the house of the mighty."

When he dipped his hands,

a compacting formed.

A compacting formed,

which lay cast down and moved to and fro (?), as if it were

no compacting.

Since no earth thus came into being and compacted,

his heart was torn in two.

When his heart was torn in two,

Ruha felt herself strengthened once more.

She said:

"I shall arise, destroy my possessions

and go to the king of the world."

She arose anew,

destroyed her possessions and clothed herself in her garment.

She arose, destroyed her possessions,

went to the fiend and said to him:

"Arise, great fiend, arise,

see, the whole world is yours.

I have heard that the house has been abandoned

and all knots are loosed."

When the wicked one heard this,

his heart felt strengthened twofold.

When his heart was strengthened,

she said to him: "I am your sister.

If you lie with me,

your strength will be doubled."

By their evil union she conceived twelve fiends.

She conceived twelve fiends,

not one of whom was good for anything.

After twelve days

Ruha had her labour pains.

She travailed and bore twelve shapes,

none of which resembled another.

They did not resemble one another;

each rode upon the lap of another.

When she saw them,

her heart fell from its support.

Her heart fell from its support,

and she howled and wept over herself.

She said:

"I told myself that I would bear and give birth,

and that they would be like the lord of the world.

I have run, my lord, but not arrived;

I have loaded torment upon myself."

When Namrus spoke so,

all twelve became angry.

All became angry

and denied their father.

Ptahil stood in thought.

In thought stood Ptahil and said:

"I shall leave the world."

When Ruha heard this,

her heart rose up again upon its support.

She said:

"The stranger is no adversary to me;

the stranger has no power over the world."

She arose, destroyed her possessions

and put on her garment.

She arose, destroyed her possessions

and went to her homeland in the place of darkness.

She spoke to the lowly warrior

who is without hands and feet:

"Arise, my father, see,

I am your daughter.

Embrace me

and be with me.

Be with me

and fill your eyes with the world.

Fill your eyes with the world

and see that the whole world is yours.

The stranger who came into your world

has hastily left it again and ascended to his place.

If you are with me,

your eyes will remain as they are."

When the wicked one heard this,

by their evil union she conceived of him.

She conceived of him five furious ones,

who deny one another.

They deny one another

and give themselves up to an unworthy, unseemly course.