The legend of the destruction of mankind
The story of mankind’s destruction is considered a mythical thing that ancient Egyptian thought imagined and assumed. It imposes the possibility of humans revolting against the Creator God and trying to undermine him and have fun with him in simplicity and even sarcasm. With the heinous act of rebellion against him,
The story of the mythical destruction of human beings is one of the stories widely spread in the ancient Egyptian belief throughout its eras. It was one of the classic texts on the walls of many royal tombs, especially in the era of the New Kingdom in the tombs of the kings of the 18th and 19th dynasties, such as the tomb (Tutankhamun) and the tombs of (City I, Ramses II, Ramses III, Ramses VI).
The legend begins concerning the old age of God (Ra), the great sun god, the master and creator of the gods, and how old age and old age have affected him, and when humans saw what their god had reached, they began to mock and ridicule him. He was grieved by the heinous deeds of mankind, and became angry with great anger, and resolved to punish mankind and bring about their extinction.
So he summoned the gods and gathered them to consult on the destruction of these vaunted humans. This meeting was a secret, but the humans knew about the meeting and realized its purpose, so they fled to the desert, believing that this was the best solution to escape from the punishment of God (Ra).
And the god (Ra) consulted with the gods about what was issued by humans and how to respond in a manner befitting his position as the master of the gods and creator of the universe so that he could restore his status and dignity among his creatures. He sends them his daughter and his eye (Hathor) to punish them for their actions, and the advice is met by the same god (Ra). He approved the idea, so he ordered to summon his daughter (Hathor) and presented to her what was in the order of the meeting of the council of gods and told her of her mission, so (Hathor) was very happy with the matter for the confidence of (Ra). And how she will rehabilitate her father, the master of the gods.
And (Hathor) proceeded to carry out the order of her father (Ra), so she turned to the goddess (Sekhmet) and left all the beautiful qualities that she was characterized by to carry out her mission (such as beauty, motherhood, and love).
There is a clear indication of choosing (Hathor) in particular over the gods to inflict that punishment as (the sun) and considering that humans have fled to the desert where the sun does not always set.
And (Hathor) carried out the punishment with the utmost cruelty and severity, bearing in mind the dignity of the king of the gods and insulting her father, who created humans, so revenge was terrible. The destruction began to harvest large numbers of people. At that point, the god (Ra) began to retreat from his opinion and desire for revenge. He realized that Humans are on their way to perishing, and that they have received the necessary punishment, and that they are at the beginning and the end of his creation, who created them.
So he sent the god (Shu), the god of the air, to his daughter (Hathor) represented by the goddess (Sekhmet) to tell her that her father (Ra) had retracted his position towards humans and ordered her to return, but (Hathor) refused to return and told him that she was determined to continue carrying out her punishment with humans. Until the end, things worsened in the council of the gods, and the god (Ra) thought of a ploy to force her to return and leave revenge on humans. The gods advised him to bring a red substance from the current (Elephantine) Aswan, a narcotic substance, mix it with beer, and put it in the place where it recurs ( Hathor). Immediately the god (Ra) ordered to implement this, and thousands of jars filled with that substance were brought and mixed with large quantities of beer and placed in the place where Hathor would go, and indeed (Hathor) found this mixture and drinks from it, believing that it is human blood. She gets drunk and loses consciousness, and the god (Shu) carries her and takes her to the place of the god (Ra). After she wakes up (Hathor), she gets angry very angry and goes to the country of Nubia and stays there. The god (Ra) sends the god (Shu) to bring her, but she refuses to return. Still, the god ( Ra) returns the ball. He sends to it the god (Thoth), the god of arithmetic, writing, and knowledge, who succeeds in Persuading her to return, provided that temples are set up for her and that her place is on the forehead of Ra, depicted in a living image that protects him.
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