| Apep | ||||
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Personification of Darkness and Disorder | ||||
.svg) A depiction of Apep based on the depiction in the tomb of Ramesses I. | ||||
| Name in hieroglyphs |
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| Abode | Duat | |||
| Symbol | Snake | |||
| Texts | Spells of Coming Forth by Day | |||
| Genealogy | ||||
| Parents | None, Neith (in some myths) | |||
| Siblings | Ra[dubious – discuss] | |||
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Apep (Ancient Egyptian: ꜥꜣpp), also known as Aphoph (/ə.ˈfɒf/, Coptic: Ⲁⲫⲱⲫ, romanized: Aphōph)[1] or Apophis (/ə.ˈpɒ.fɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄποφις, romanized: Ápophis), is the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied darkness and disorder, and was thus the opponent of light and Maat (order/truth). Ra was the bringer of light and hence the biggest opposer of Apep.
- ^ a b Erman, Adolf, and Hermann Grapow, eds. 1926–1953. Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache im Auftrage der deutschen Akademien. 6 vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlungen. (Reprinted Berlin: Akademie-Verlag GmbH, 1971).
- ^ Hieroglyph as per Budge Gods of the Ancient Egyptians (1969), Vol. I, 180.