The Genesis creation narrative (Genesis 1) is the quintessential "logos" creation myth. Like the "agon" model it begins with darkness and the uncreated primordial ocean:[18] God separates and restrains the waters, but he does not create them from nothing.[19] God initiates each creative act with a spoken word ("God said, Let there be..."), and finalises it with the giving of a name.[20] Creation by speech is not unique to the Old Testament: it is prominent in some Egyptian traditions.[21] There is, however, a difference between the Egyptian and Hebrew logos mythologies: in Genesis 1 the divine word of the Elohim is an act of "making into"; the word of Egyptian creator-god, by contrast, is an almost magical activation of something inherent in pre-creation: as such, it goes beyond the concept of fiat (divine act) to something more like the Logos of the Gospel of John.[21]