"The Benben, or pyramidion, from the largely ruined pyramid of the Twelfth Dynasty Pharaoh Ammenenhat III (1894-1797 BC), which stands at Dashur. The Benben is cut from highly polished black granite. An inscribed winged sun-disk stretches over two Eyes of Horus above the hieroglyph neferu ('perfection') repeated three times."

"The mythical Benben stone was frequently depicted in hieroglyphs by the form of a stepped pyramid and also as a true pyramidion."

"... in the ancient Egyptian language the root word bn and its duplication bnbn are 'connected with various outflows, including those of a sexual nature ...'

In a passage on the creation of the Benben we read that Atum is the god 'who begat [bnn] a place [bw] in the primeval ocean, when seed [bnn.t] flowed out [bnbn] under him ..."

(Hancock 3)