In Egyptian religion, the creator god and maker of things, the patron of crafts and craftsmen, and represented as a mummy. His chief cult center was at Memphis, capital of Egypt from the 1st Dynasty, worshipped from earliest times and throughout Dynastic Period. The Greeks identified Ptah with Hephaestus (Vulcan), the divine blacksmith. With his companion Sekhmet and Nefertem, he was one of the Memphite Triad of deities. As a mortuary god, Ptah was often fused with Seker (or Soker) and Osiris to form Ptah-Seker-Osiris.