I am Shu, whom Atum created the day that he himself appeared.
He did not form me in a womb nor shape me in an egg,
I was not conceived by any manner of conception,
But my father Atum spat me forth with the spittle of his mouth,
me and my sister Tefnut.
She emerged behind me when I was enveloped in the breath of life that came from the throat of the phoenix,
on the day that Atum appeared in the infinity, the nothing, the darkness and shapelessness.
I am Shu, Father of the Gods – which was when Atum sent out his single eye to seek me and my sister Tefnut.