Assignment #9 - My myth

At this ancient point in time, the world was divided into the followers of Horus, and the followers of Seth. This was the division between good and evil, and, naturally, both sides hated each other. In the 363rd year of Ra's reign, the people of Nubia are tricked into killing each other and their leader, Seth. Much blood is shed, it is brother against brother and the worst characteristics of humanity are brought to the forefront. The gods were angry because the humans were not maintaining Ma'at or balance. So they send down Hathor, in Sekhmet form, to kill the humans to stop their fighting. I suppose they thought that fighting violence with violence was a good idea. Sekhmet comes down and slaughters every single human that she comes across. The world runs red with blood and Ra orders her to stop the killing. However, Sekhmet is in a blood lust and will not listen. So the gods dye beer to look like blood and she drinks it, becomes drunk, and humanity is saved. After witnessing the horrors of this, Ra decides that he no longer wishes to remain on earth because the world had been changed. The goddess Nun of the primeval waters orders me and my father, Shu, to take Ra up into the heavens where he can reside in relative peace. I can not exactly say no because Nun is extremely powerful. Ra transforms into his blinding sun form, and I transform into my awe-inspiring cow form to carry him on my horns. I gallop - well, I was a cow so I attempted to gallop- into the sky. As Ra, the sun, leaves, obviously the world gets darker and everyone knows that humans have a natural fear of the dark. As the world darkens, most of the humans beg for Ra to come back. Of course, Ra is a god and he rarely bothers to listen to those lesser than him, so I continue to carry him up. In a last ditch attempt to regain his favor, the humans kill all of his enemies on earth.(This is essentially the reason why he left, so I think that it was kind of stupid for the humans to do that) And this is how death came into being. From that point on, living and then dying became necessary to maintain Ma'at. So I carry Ra high up into the heavens and once we get high enough, he transforms into many heavenly bodies which really increases the amount of weight on me. I transform back into a woman, and my entire body starts to shake from the effort of holding Ra up. Finally, eight other gods are created to help support me. Unfortunately, now I am stuck up there because if I return to earth, Ra will fall. My body now shelters the world from the chaos beyond. And Ra travels through me each night. I give birth to him every day, he travels along my stomach and I swallow him at night to continue the cycle. If this cycle ceased to exist, it could mean the end of the world.