Egyptian mythology

Egyptian Creation Myth

At the beginning there was Nun, the being of endless water. He married Heket, the frog goddess. Out of Nun came Ra (Amon-Ra). He spat out Tefnut, the goddess of rain and blew out Shu, God of wind. Together they had Geb, the earth and Nut, the sky. A prophecy said that the first child of Nut would become the next pharaoh and rule Egypt. Ra could not let that hapen. He told Shu to hold Geb and Nut apart so that the prophecy could not come true. He also said that Nut would not be able to give birth in any day of the year. Geb, in a failed attempt to reach Nut created the mountains. Nut wanted to have children so she beged Thoth to help her. So Thoth went to Khonsu, the moon god, and played senet (an egyptian board game) with him. Khonsu was so entertained with the game that he kept on shining for too long, creating 5 new days in wich Nut tickled Shu and had kids with Geb. The first child was Osiris, then Isis, Horus the Elder, also called Harmachis, Set & Nephtys.
But Ra kept on being the pharaoh. So Isis one day sneaked into his palace, collected some of the gods saliva and fashioned a cobra that bit Ra. All of the gods tried to cure Ra  but nobody knew how to. Then smart Isis pretending to cry told him that she could cure him only if she knew his secret name (his name of power). Ra was in so much pain that he agreed to tell Isis his secret name. Isis had now control over Ra and forced him to retreat into the heavens. Creating way for Osiris, the one she loved, to become pharaoh.

The Death of Osiris

When Set, god of fire, storms & desserts heard that his brother was now pharaoh he became jealouse of Osiris. He was always the forgoten kid. His father had given Osiris the fertile & rich land while he had the desserts, everybody prefered Osiris's beautiful black hair while they mocked his red hair. So he devised a plan. He  crafted a beautiful jewel encrusted sarcophagus & went to the palace. He told everyone that anybody who fited perfectly inside could keep it. Everybody tried but none could fit. Then mysteriously when it was Osiris's turn he fitted perfectly inside. Set quickly slammed the lid on top and threw the sarcophagus to the Nile. Then he turned to Isis, Osiris's wife and was about to do the same with her when Nephtys tackled her husband (who by the way, was Set). Isis quickly run away by turning into a kite hidding in the reeds of the Nile.

The new life of Osiris

Isis had a son who she called Horus. Set one day found young Horus sleeping and turning into a scorpion he stung him. Horus was in pain and unable to move he lay still on the ground. Isis begged to Thoth as her mother had begged to Thoth before to heal her son. Thot used a syringe and puting it down the youth's throat absorbed the venom. Isis left her son in the care of the cobra goddess Buto and went to the land of Byblos. There she heard a story that said that the chest that held the body of Osiris had drifted in the sea. A flood had cast it upon the land of Byblos and there a tree had grown around it. The king had seen the magestic tree & he ordered it cut down and placed as a pillar in his palace. Isis became the little prince's nurse and every night she would lock the doors and put the baby in the fireplace with a pit of scorpions. The queen one day wondering what she did to make her son so strong & healthy skeaked into the room. She screamed & took the baby out of the fireplace. Isis revealed her true identity & explained that if the baby had stayed one more night in the fireplace he would heve turned immortal. The queen begged for forgivness and said she would give her anything she wanted. Isis asked for the column.
Isis returned and hid the coffing in the reeds of the Nile. But Set who was out hunting found it and cut the body of Osiris into 15 pieces. Isis & her divorced sister Nephtys spent years looking for him. They found all of the pieces except 1 who had been swallowed by a fish (I supose you already know the name of that piece) and with the help of Anubis (the son of Nephtys & Set) revived him. Sadly they couldn't fully revive him so he had to become the king of the Duat (the underworld). When Horus grew up he realised that it was time that somebody avenged his father. That somebody was him.

The War Between Set & Horus

Horus grew up strong & healthy. He marched up to the palace to challenge Set. The war started instantly. The followers of Horus & Set clashed & the Nile went red with blood. The  mortals fled in terror as the armies clashed. Villages were destroyed & cities were reduced to ruble. The rest of the gods saw how Egypt little by little was annihilated. So they called a truce. The gods decided to have a trial to see who was the most fitting. Set would only agree if Isis didn't participate. They agreed. But Isis new that without her Horus had no chance of winning the trial, Horus was a leader & a fighter, not a speaker. So she went to her sister Nephtys & she agreed to help her. Isis with her magic transformed into Nephtys & went to the judjement (that, was on an island). The ferryman had strict orders not to let Isis pass and when he saw "Nephtys" he let her pass. There Isis went directly to Set. Isis wore a beautiful long blue dress & went Set saw her, thinking she was really Nephtys, fell again inlove, for even though he was divorced he still had hidden feelings for her. "Nephtys" gave Set drinks & alchohol till he was completly drunk. Then she told him:
"Oh darling, I love you but I also love my son. So I aks you to swear to me that you will not harm my him & you will let him become Pharaoh". Set swore. Then Isis laughing turned again into her self & all of the gods laughed to see how Isis had tricked him. Horus became pharaoh but his troubles didn't end there. When his oath didn't bare Set any longer he recruited and army and marched towards the palace to fight Horus. Horus went to the uncle who shared his name, also called Harmachis for support. And there was war in Egypt again. In that terrible battle Set poked Horus's eye out but Thoth replaced it with one made of moonlight. In the end Horus cut Set's head off and banished him out of the palace for ever. Set from then on journeyed throught the sky & the Duat in Ra's sun boat. It was his job to kill every night the evil serpent of chaos: Apophis.

The Prey of Sekhmet (everyone)

Even though Seth had been disposed of Apophis, the supreme serpent of evil, chaos was working evil. He entered the thoughts of the followers that before belonged to Set and they turned against the gods. The gods were afraid for the mortals were many in number & they had Apophis on their side. So they begged Ra to come back, He organised a meeting and there he told them:
"What should I do? Should I destroy them with a glance of my All Seeing Eye or should I sent against them Sekhmet? Send Sekhmet they answerd, for if you sent your All Seeing Eye your glance will also burn the earth and it will turn into a desert with no end. So Sekhmet the lion-goddess was sent after them but when she tasted the blood of the mortals she killed she disn't stop, she killed the wicked & the kind during the day & in the night she would drink their blood.The gods again turned to Ra again for help and he mixed beer with red ochre and left it outside her cave. When she came out to hunt that day she found the red beer & thinking it was blood drank it till the very last drop. When she was finished she was so drunk that they could easily bring her back & turn her into a more civilized goddess: Hathor, lady of Love.