Gods Thoth and Khepri
Gods Thoth and Khepri
Gods Thoth and Khepri
THOTH AND
KHEPRI
The ancient
Egyptian gods
of creation and
knowledge
vanquish the
‘Lord of Chaos’.
Thoth and Khepri, on board sun deity, seeking to devour A papyrus leaf from the Book of
a barque, defeat the serpent him as he descended below the the Dead of Imenemsauf.
Apep in this detail from horizon – where Apep lived –
the Book of the Dead of into the underworld. Night
Imenemsauf, written during would fall, but Apep, never
the 21st and 22nd dynasties managing to swallow Ra
(1069-716 bc) and now whole, would spit him out and
in the Louvre. the sun would rise again.
Just seen at the bottom Khepri, the scarab-headed
of this image, Apep, also god second from the right,
known as Apophis, was the is the morning manifestation
embodiment of chaos. of Ra, associated in particular
He battled daily with Ra, the with creation: the eggs of the