The book of Egyptian mythology remains the wealthiest and most rich, containing an explanation for all the ancient Egyptians observed from the features of the movement of nature in their own way.



One of the things that the Egyptians were interested in the journey of the sun at night and day, appeared myths about the journey of the sun at night, the most important that the sun is born of the goddess "Not" God of the sky, which is born every morning and die every night in her arms.

But the other myth that had the greatest influence and accepted by the Egyptians is that the sun was roaming the heavens in a boat sailing in the heavenly river.

This boat is called a boat of millions of years and in the morning it is called a boat called the moon boat. In the evening it is called a boat that is caught (ie the evening boat). At night the boat enters the kingdom of night, which is also called the other world. And separated from the other territory gate guarded by a guard. And these regions correlate to about twelve o'clock midnight.



There are also many goddesses who protect the sun god from all the dangers of the night and in every section of God knows the password and without the password does not allow the boat to pass even the presence of God Ra.

There are two incidents during this journey: the first is the continuous attempt by the serpent Abu Vis (Aabeeb) to prevent the passage of the sun, but every time defeated by the guardian gods, and throughout this journey in the Kingdom of the night the sun is dead.

The second incident is the encounter of the dead sun of the experiential God in the form of making (the god that the Egyptians portrayed as a beetle and the beetle with hieroglyphics means news, so the vulture means the beetle, it also means the object and the story means the entity, And my fear, like the snail, thrusts the ball of the sun into the other world in the evening and waits there to revive the sun when its spirit is united with the spirit of the god Ra and then drives the sunball over the horizon of the earth.

The spirit of Ra is joined by the god Khubra in the form of making, which leads to the return of the spirit of Ra to life, moving forward to live to the sun and repeat this journey every day

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