The work has been compared with the Mesopotamian Atrahasis and the biblical tale of Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. The Book of the Heavenly Cow is an ancient Egyptian text dealing with the rebellion of humanity against the sun god Ra, his destruction of the rebels through the goddess Hathor, the reversal of this decision and Ra’s mercy, and his ascent into the higher heavens, leaving earth in a fallen state. The tale begins after Ra had created the world and was king of the gods and humanity. The funerary bed is fashioned in the shape of the Celestial Cow as depicted in The Book of the Heavenly Cow, a text which adorned Tutankhamun’s tomb’s walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1327 BCE) taken in 1922 CE or early 1923 CE.
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