Sacred Writing
Egypt and India - Life Eternal
Egypt: Hymn of Praise from The Book of the Dead
"Thou art the lord of heaven, thou art the lord of earth, thou art the creator of those who dwell in the heights and of those who dwell in the depths. Thou art the One who came into being in the beginning of time. Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion man, thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form the Nile, and thou art the maker of streams and of the mountains, thou hast made mankind and the beasts of the field, thou has created the heavens and the earth."
...."O thou mighty youth, thou everlasting son, self-begotten, who didst give thyself birth, O thou mighty One, of myriad forms and aspects...Lord of Eternity and ruler of the everlasting....Thou art unknown and canst not be searched out; thou art the Only One....Millions of years have gone over the world; I cannot tell the number of them, through which thou hast passed.....Thou dost pass over and travellest through untold spaces of millions and hundreds of thousands of years; thou settest out in peace; thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss to the place which thou lovest; this thou doest in one little moment of time, and thou dost sink down and makest and end of the hours." translation by E. A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, New York: Dover Publications reprint, 1967, pp. 250-251.
India: Creation narrative from Taitiriya Upanishad
"In the beginning, truly, all this did not exist. From
non-Being Being was produced. That Being changed itself into a
Self, an Atman. Truly, in the beginning this self was
alone -- there was no other winking thing. He first said ' I
am...' 
'Aum.'
He thought: 'Let me now create the worlds.'
"He desired: ' Would that I were many! Let me procreate myself! ' He warmed himself. Having warmed himself, he created this world, whatever there is here. Having created it, he entered it. Having entered it, he became both the perceptible and what is beyond, both the defined and the undefined, both the based and nonbased, both knowledge and unknowing, both the true and the false. As the real, he became whatever there is here." Taittiriya Upanishad 2.7.1