MYTHS & LEGENDS

THE BIRTH OF RA

• Born from egg
• Created gods
• Hidden name hold his power

THE BIRTH OF RA - 2

• Shu, wind God
• Tefnut, rain God
• Geb, earth God
• Nut, sky Goddess
• Hapi, Nile God

THE PHARAOAH, RA

• Took human form
• Pharaoh for thousands of years
• Ra grew old
• Citizens no longer obeyed him

THE PHARAOH, RA - 2

• Ra became angry
• Called gods together
• Discussed how he should punish humans

SEKHMET

• Nun suggested summoning her
• Sekhmet was summoned
• She slayed mankind and drank blood
• Ra felt bad so he planned a trap

SEKHMET - 2

• Sent messangers to collect red wine
• Soaked fields with the wine
• Sekhmet arrived and drank the wine
• She became Horus, goddess of love

RA'S REIGN ENDS

• Osiris, Isis, Nephtys and Seth born
• Ra continued to age
• Isis created the first cobra to bite Ra
• The snake bites Ra and he falls

RA'S REIGN ENDS - 2

• Gods came to help
• Isis and Ra bargained
• Ra watches over earth as the sun
• Lets younger gods take his place

BABYLONIAN COMPARISON

• Gods already existed in the Babylonian epic
• All babylonian gods were humanoids
• More violence is involved in the Babylonian story
• Both stories had gods come rule on Earth
• Both stories had humans created by gods

STO:LO COMPARISON

• The Sto:lo passed their stories by storytellers
• Both stories have gods resembling animals
• Both stories are centered around the river

THE END OF THE STORY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• www.egyptianmyths/re.html
• From The Time Memorial - Dilene Silvey
• http://www.cresourcei.org/enumaelish.html
• commons.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org
• pixabay.com