Never-Ending Battles Between God Ra And Indestructible Apophis In Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Unlike mythologies from other ancient cultures, Egyptian mythology does not have many terrible creatures. The most frightening monster creature in this mythology was Apophis (known in Greek as Apophis and in Egypt as Apep), a gigantic serpent associated with evil and chaos.

The snake represented chaos and darkness, and, as such, he was frequently portrayed as the enemy of Ra on tomb walls and in funerary papyri.

As the one who was always in battle with the god Ra, Apophis is also mentioned in ancient tales, particularly widespread during the New Kingdom (c. 1550 BC – c. 1077 BC).

Ancient storytellers recounted that the snake lurked beneath the horizon each day, waiting for Ra at different locations. One of them was a western mountain called Bakhu.

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