Talk:Apophis/@comment-26116207-20150314044924

Hold up! I just realized something! In ancient Egyptian mythology apophis was basically chaos incarnate. Egyptian mythology, you see, isn't good versus evil as much as order vs chaos. According to the stories (I didn't get this name for nothing!) apophis would lie in wait for Ra, the god of the sun, to drive by in his sun boat (he drove this boat across the sky/afterlife/some other plane of existence, it's conflicting depending on who tells it), wherein the serpent would ambush and try to defeat the god. Every day, Ra (often with the help of several gods, most importantly seth) would defeat the serpent, and a good thing too, because if apophis won he would swallow the sun and DESTROY THE UNIVERSE! This myth was supposedly used to explain the sun's movement through the sky, and eclipses (the whole swallowing the sun thing). But note that here she's after the Pharaoh, not Ra. Now you may be thinking "of course not, there isn't a Ra in MGE." WRONG! There is: khepri. Ra, you see, had several different forms, the most prominent of them being based around different positions of the sun in the sky. Khepri was the dawn manifestation of Ra, and is represented by the dung beetle, the ball of dung that the scarab rolls across the floor being turned into the sun in khepri's case, and the black shell being made gold. So that being known: why does the apophis go after the pharaoh? Why not khepri? Hell, in ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were said to be DESCENDED from Ra, Osiris, Horus, Seth, or any number of other gods, so why not both?