The Egyptians called their own land Kemet and their own sacred writing medu netjer — "the words of the god(s)." What follows is drawn from that source alone: the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, the Book of the Dead, and the temple theologies of Heliopolis, Memphis, and Thebes. No later tradition's lens is applied here. Kemet speaks first, in its own voice.
A Note on Pronunciation
Ancient Egyptian writing did not record vowels. Every pronunciation below is a scholarly reconstruction, built from Coptic (Egyptian's last spoken descendant) and comparative linguistics — a best approximation, not a certainty.