Apep
c. 2100 BCE – 400 CEattested
Egypt
- Egyptian
The serpent of chaos who attacks Ra's barque every night in the underworld. He is never permanently defeated; every sunrise is the latest in an unending series of narrow victories.
Known for
- serpent of chaos
- nightly attack on the sun
- never permanently killed
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.