Miscellaneous Myths: The Journey Of Ra

Hey, kids! You like snakes? Then have I got a mythos for YOU!
THE LAST TIME WE SAW RA: • Miscellaneous Myths: S...
The sad thing about learning Middle Egyptian is the number of people who can actually read it is so small that I can't sneak in that many proper bilingual jokes. I can always trust that someone will be able to recognize the jokes or references I write in Japanese, but hieroglyphs are just esoteric enough that I can't assume the same here. (Also I'm not really willing to demean my knowledge of the language by writing english words in transliterated hieroglyphs, so here we are.)
That said, can you spot the Neverending Story reference encoded in alphabetic hieroglyphs? It's in there, I promise!
For bonus points, spot the obligatory Yugioh reference!
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[@nochillwill4667]

I feel sorry for that one ancient egyptian who had a fear of snakes all his life only for him to meet an afterlife where 50% of it is snake themed, snake made, or just snake.

[@alyseleem2692]

Egyptian father:Don't worry,boi. Down there,you got twelve mamas,and Isis,the big mama. All of 'em gonna keep those snakes away.... They'll have to make some,though,so get over it!

[@OjamaIndigo]

@@alyseleem2692 I used the snakes to destroy the snakes

[@alyseleem2692]

@@OjamaIndigoNice work!

[@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel]

They will probably go on a journey of learning to no longer fear snakes and it will be terribly wholesome and have several mediocre anime adaptations.

[@jamieadams2589]

@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel which direction would you guess this journey goes?

[@joaovitorfarinabraga690]

THE JOURNEY OF RA: He was sleeping while the other guys did all the work, also there were lots of snakes

[@danieloceansmith3156]

GLAUBIM 2 ra sounds like a good politician

[@MelonLord8]

They also entered a snake one way and came out the other

[@tabathajordan-richards4903]

Boooo

[@tabathajordan-richards4903]

Booo

[@darn9717]

Tabatha Jordan-Richards •_•

[@randomperson9941]

Egyptian: where does the sun go at night? Egyptian priest, probably on ancient snake drugs: I’ll tell you, but you’ll wish I didn’t.

[@averongodoffire8098]

Random Person *Snakes...* Is...is that it? Look man you can fill the gaps but it’s just a fucking shit ton of snakes

[@the_exodusrex3385]

What song plays at the end

[@pratyusha.97]

@@the_exodusrex3385 Death Cab for Cutie - I Follow You Into the Dark

[@theseagull4805]

After every line in the story, he takes a hit of the ancient snake drugs.

[@aprilshowers3246]

sorry for mashing the like button repeatedly i was the 1100th like : )

[@thearchitect2112]

Guys, I might be incorrect, but I’m kind of sensing a snake theme here.

[@geekacelol8982]

No, I noticed it too

[@connorp3764]

Now that you mention it...

[@casuallycloseted6379]

Yeah I noticed a bit of a theme too

[@Bookdragon11]

I think you might be on to something …

[@mrcakeday1439]

Nah, it’s but our wishful thinking that snakes are cool.

[@kelsouthdeaton5093]

“Anyone who has had to be awake at 5 am can confirm” amen

[@ughyouagain]

Ahhhhhh... so so sooo true

[@Mordeiv]

Too true

[@lionsmith3944]

*Cries in consistently having to wake up at 4:30

[@branastasia8013]

It really isn’t that bad for me, I wake up at 4:00 daily and I’m a okay with it

[@tonya8279]

In awake at 5.... But wut?

[@wildcardjoey4776]

Hour six seems like it's mostly unknown because it's a realm of lost knowledge. The gods so old their names are forgotten and the shrines so old they are lost to the sands.

[@garthst.claire3459]

So what's with the giant lion?

[@Suika_Ibuki_The_Drunk_Oni]

eh, they though a giant lion statue would liven up the place. It didn't.

[@devisankhla4788]

Oohh...the retirement home

[@leventemucsi9547]

@@devisankhla4788 Kane Chronicles?

[@devisankhla4788]

@@leventemucsi9547 exactly

[@jasonlow9593]

Ra:WAKE ME UP INSIDE beetle: CANT WAKE UP Snake: SAVE MEHHHHH

[@jasonlow9593]

Omg thank u for the likes

[@CommunistSubRex]

Which snake there where 36

[@marte-asbjrn8521]

@@CommunistSubRex yeah cmon @Jason Low, please elaborate for us

[@oraclesfragment6242]

I thought the snake would've said it like ssssssssssave meee

[@NathanTAK]

*snek

[@captainbirch9835]

The sixth hour is really intriguing for me. The fact that the banks are lined with unknown god's is kinda terrifying in an HP Lovecraft way.

[@seankock7649]

Yeah like maybe they are the true gods orchastrating everything

[@flamingpi2245]

Ok but hidden is probably the coolest one Just the name is chilling

[@fangsabre]

@@seankock7649 so gods in Egypt are pretty mortal, it's possible that they aren't true gods in that they're truer, but older. Ra is the eldest of the gods, generally speaking (Geb's dad may be the same generation but idk), so it's possible that the Egyptians believed there were older gods of previous civilizations (conquered ones maybe?) And those gods died and await Ra and his rebirth along the banks of the river of night. Ps: also like Rick Riordan depicted a place for old/forgotten gods when he portrayed the river of night in the Kane Chronicles. The gods were senile and many of them were there because the world had forgotten their names.

[@seankock7649]

@@fangsabre i also wonder how much of this did the egyptions actualy write, theres allot of cultures that when working or under the control of another culture, they will have lines like, but besides all our gods there this group or this one god whos even cooler then everyone here, (like the norse bassically have a line setting them up for jesus etc,cause cristians be quirky)

[@ricochet4674]

@@fangsabre you have any sources I can look at cause that's really interesting

[@mangamurared49]

This would make such a badass theme park ride.

[@86BullnoseOG]

It'd be like that tunnel scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on steroids.

[@danieloceansmith3156]

Logan Epp but you can sleep through most of it somehow

[@adumbooctopus1115]

Can someone make that in minecraft..?

[@pharaohbubbles1547]

But HELLA complicated

[@freeziebreezie]

A Dumbo Octopus I can maybe

[@cking4869]

4:40 “Shockingly, this part is actually devoid of snakes” Blasphemy.

[@samrevlej9331]

HERESY !

[@Grim_Sister]

Lunacy!

[@_something64_59]

We don’t know anything about it so I like to think there are snakes everywhere, but we cannot see them

[@samrevlej9331]

@@_something64_59 If what you say is true, we may not need to burst out the embalmment tools after all.

[@darn9717]

Somethingamy

[@berserkerlewis7089]

I really, really want an album of just Red making her own versions of songs.

[@thedumbd5693]

Agreed

[@dunroamingfarm1385]

Me too

[@maxmottram8612]

Most definitely

[@legoshithebladerunner293]

that would be amazing

[@lantern0483]

Yes please.

[@atticusv668]

“Snakes?” “Loads of ‘em.” “And cats?” “Yoooo you’re onto somethin’ bro.”

[@nunu2459]

Talk about a morning routine...

[@vanillacapricorn]

Ivana T *insert laugh track*

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

More like a full day routine. God in Heaven, that HAS to be the most annoying thing to deal with: having to die, travel your corpse through the underworld WITHOUT getting destroyed, resurrect because of a bug, Go through the day, die again, repeat Ad Nauseam

[@CosmicPotato740]

Best post so far

[@joshuahunt3032]

Moony [HIATUS] Ra’s journey is like ragdoll physics in video games: corpses tend to go on journeys.

[@greywalker505]

There needs to be a Ra version of the Kira Yoshikage copypasta.

[@yeahyeah4914]

Usir: what should i put in the underworld? Usir: ... Usir: snek

[@CommunistSubRex]

And that’s why I like Usir

[@moobloom155]

Who’s Usir

[@gmuffin4543]

@@moobloom155 Your mom

[@moobloom155]

@@gmuffin4543 bad joke

[@starthelotus3453]

@@moobloom155 Usir is the proper, Egyptian name for Osiris.

[@miamafalda1118]

Nobody: Literally not a soul: Ancient Egyptians: S N A K E S

[@jonathanswavely7259]

Indiana Jones: why . . .

[@shielalim7990]

BB HONG birds and jackals too

[@peloncito_5987]

Snek

[@SergeantSmilo]

@@jonathanswavely7259 Egyptians: Why not?

[@danieloceansmith3156]

Mia Mafalda Ra: IM SICK AND TIRED OF THE MONKEY FIGHTING SNAKES ON THIS MONDAY TA FRIDAY BOAT!!!

[@leilaclarridge5807]

Now I can imagine a Hades DLC where the Egyptian gods invite Zagreus over, or maybe he, Persephone and Hades go to Egypt for a much needed family vacation, and he helps babysit Ra’s carcass for a night.

[@DragonGirlStar]

PLEASE YES

[@lucaballarati9694]

Horde mode unlocked

[@TheFoolishSamurai]

7/10 Not enough sneks.

[@discipleoftzeentch8384]

First off: no miia

[@J1428753]

fun fact: some snakes are hermaphroditic. makes some parts of that show a lot more...interesting :}

[@memeicusgaming2197]

peter despacito no DANGER NODDLES

[@berserkerlewis7089]

No step on snek!

[@toe179]

J1428753 *sneks

[@DIEGhostfish]

I so sorta like the idea that Set is only kept around/tolerated because has a big club to beat Apophis with.

[@Alphapkmn]

DIEGhostfish Set, as I see it, is essentially the dude who stirs the pot, keeps life from stagnating. If that means "chuck somebody into a raging sandstorm out of sheer boredom" then... *shrug* Basically, the necessary chaos that gives order a reason to exist, as well as the lesser of two evils.

[@bluesbest1]

@@Alphapkmn The only constant in life is death...Let's be as inconsistent as possible!

[@doesntmatter2467]

Well in earlier myths Set was a trickster god but he wasn't necessarily evil, defending Ra was pretty in character for him, he was however the god of foreigners, and after Egypt had a bad experience with foreigners, they demonized the hell out of him. A lot of the stuff he did previously was basically just seen as standard moral dissonance that comes with being a god, but they made it out to be straight up evil later.

[@garthst.claire3459]

@@doesntmatter2467 Yeah It's easy to forget that "Ancient Egypt"' existed for thousands of years and that things, including their religion and myths changed a lot throughout that time and weren't even uniform between regions and dynasties. Even after Set had already been demonized there were still regions and dynasties that held him in high regard and several Pharaohs named after him.

[@royalysweet8469]

Bastet also keeps atop his at bay so he could be useless

[@Scientin]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how metal the Egyptian underworld kingdoms' names are?

[@starthelotus3453]

H I D D E N

[@pokimanefartcompilation]

The Abyss of Waters and Sarcophagus of the Gods are the best

[@sadie1606]

A band should do an album where all the songs are named after the underworld kingdoms

[@yourpalbryan1442]

​@@sadie1606sounds like a power metal album idea where the album name is "Journey of Ra" and each song is, as you say, named after each kingdom of the night

[@KyleOgilvie1]

"I have had it with this motherf*cking snake trying to eat the motherf*cking sun." - Ra, at some point probably

[@rothern3761]

"Why did it have to be Snakes!?"

[@Ims_valk]

Robert Ciamei 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🔅🔅🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

[@parurai121]

cuz they are creepy as hell

[@emperorx5]

Indiana Jones' hell basically

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

Ra is so old he really belongs into a museum

[@CommunistSubRex]

Because ancient Egyptians loved and where terrified of snakes

[@W3Rn1ckz]

There was an alternate version of this myth where the two mountains are replaced w/ the mouth and... "private spot" of Egypt's resident sky goddess, Nut. That.... That's why the sky is red in the morning.

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

I love the old gods so much more than Yahweh. The stories are so much more imaginative.

[@fandomcringebucket]

*Ew?*

[@W3Rn1ckz]

@@fandomcringebucket Only when you think about it harder than you truly need too.

[@janforberger675]

Well, still better than sailing into a snakes bum each evening

[@pauline1809]

wait why is it red? Does she pee blood???

[@brianlewolfhunt]

so to recap... Ra has a boring 12 hour life, dies, is carried through the underworld, visits a bunch of his children who doubtless are like "Hi dad. You die again?", a whole bunch of snakes get involved somehow, his family fight off the giant snake that tries to end the world by eating his body, a bug restores his soul but not his body, so his soul returns to do his job of bringing light while his body is dumped in a trash can. Also, for a culture that shows huge respect for its dead, they just throw the body into a chasm? I wonder if they will ever run out of space for Ra corpses.

[@JoyAndAgony]

Brian Le Wolfhunt maybe that’s why the giant evil snake hasn’t starved to death yet

[@Alphapkmn]

Psychotic Muffin it wants to eat Ra. Nobody said the Ra in question had to be ALIVE. Besides, the preparation of the body is for travel to the underworld, and Ra’s already there, so...

[@timothymclean]

They show respect to Ra's body for as long as he's dead, but what's the point once he's alive again?

[@Attaxalotl]

@@timothymclean makes sense.

[@sarafontanini7051]

THe other gods: you...sure you jsut wanna dump the body? Ra: c'mon, its hilarious!

[@SIrL0bster]

Idea: D&D dungeon based on the journey through the Kingdoms of the Night.

[@rockclanhawkstar1454]

Better idea, make them travel through that after the party was TPKed.

[@minkeyandzomble6206]

Stealing both this ideas

[@birdsareasocialconstruct5083]

@@minkeyandzomble6206 stealing your idea of stealing the other ideas

[@axios4702]

Get ready to fight TONS of snakes.

[@ANobodyNamedDex]

Only at night. They should get teleported when the sun lowers and they need to get through one layer a night and if they don’t they have to somehow escape a snake pit that gets worse each layer (besides like the good kingdoms of night layers) and then they have to restart that layer the next night

[@dojee8993]

'Who's sacrificing trading cards?' omg i love you so much

[@captainnekomata9969]

Totally a Yugioh reference!

[@majapalm7583]

Dojee time stamp!!

[@cielle.etoilee]

5:56

[@Attackontrashcan]

It's time to ddddddd-duel

[@CJCroen1393]

I can't believe I didn't realize it sooner XD

[@AubriGryphon]

I like the Set version of the fight with Apep/Apophis. It's got a "Nobody beats up my nephew but ME!" thing going.

[@shelleystrickland9045]

The only person to attack the sun is me… I haven’t done it yet but I’m working on it

[@DDlambchop43]

well, that's cause Set was never meant to be totally evil. He wasn't a hero, but he knew his duties.

[@Nikos-o-gamer]

Can anyone here tell me the song in the apophis part?

[@sconesandjam]

Ancient Egypt really did like them some snakes, huh. Hissstorical myths are always fun to learn about. (I am so sorry)

[@sconesandjam]

Patrick Cross "Don't insult Ammut. He will eat you with his Crocodile face" #YugiohAbridged

[@moirapalace3946]

And cats. Don't forget cats.

[@namingisdifficult408]

Patrick Cross interesting

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

Local Flora and Fauna always inspires ritualistic depictions. We Westerners have lions and eagles in pretty much the same role in the modern era (and specifically in America, SEALS), and medieval heraldry is full of flowers and animals.

[@Alphapkmn]

Jasper van Heycop There’s a reason Ammit the Devourer has a crocodile head...

[@valeryasteel4167]

As a native Hebrew speaker I was like "sure we have vowels!!!" and then i thought about how we actually write words. It's funny but you don't notice it and kinda just know how words should be pronounced at some point. Sorry, everyone trying to learn Hebrew, that's kinda complicated lol

[@char1211]

What do you do when you're reading a word you don't know the pronunciation of? I assume native speakers can usually predict what the correct vowels are but it must've happened when you were learning to read at least? Like, the spelling and pronunciation of the word for camera in my native language doesn't match the same way other words do so when I read it for the first time as a kid I had no idea what it meant and completely botched the pronunciation.

[@valeryasteel4167]

@@char1211 Luckily, there are usually very clear "blueprints" for verbs, adjectives, and a lot of objects. They do change depending on the "root" of the word, but it does have a fairly solid inner logic. You can sort of extrapolate how to pronounce something. A lot of words are also "hebrewfied", usually from English nowadays but ocassionaly from Arabic or Russian as well. It sort of bastradizes the original pronounciation, so that's self explanatpry. Worst case scenario, you guess and if you guessed wrong someone will make sure to correct you 😂

[@char1211]

@@valeryasteel4167 Oh cool! I'm really fascinated by languages that omit vowels in writing but it does make sense if they're easily extrapolated. In Swedish, my native language, vowels are very important to distinguish words from one another so the concept is quite foreign to me; "kar", "kir", "kor", "kur", "kår" and "kör" all have completely different meanings but without the vowel they'd look and sound the same. Technically you could add "kär" and "kör" to the list as well but their 'k' is soft (like the 'g' in badge)

[@valeryasteel4167]

@@char1211 there are vowels, but sometimes they're ommited and then you need to extrapolate based on the meaning/knowing the word/educated guess - and sometimes they are there. But almost never all the vowels you'd expect for a specific words, meaning there's at least 1 vowel that's not written but is pronounced. O and u (oo) are usually written, but not always. E/I sometimes. A/e almost never. In all the cases I can think about of words being written the same way but pronounces differently, it's possible to extrapolate from the meaning in the sentence. I assume there are other cases, but in all I can think of its pretty clear based on whether the word in question is an adjective a verb, an object, etc. They might have the same root and therefor be written in the same way and have a somewhat related meaning - but they play different roles. You can tell how they're pronounced because in most cases verbs/adjectives/objects have clear "blueprints" and the root of the word is inserted in it. You absolutely can have a whole sentence containing only 2-3 words that are written the same and would sorta make sense. I've always been curious - how's the a/o with dots pronounces?

[@char1211]

@@valeryasteel4167 I assume the vowels that tend to be included are the ones most important to understanding/distinguishing the word? Cuz that makes sense to me. Also, I think the word you're looking for when saying "blueprint" is conjugation/declension; I've studied linguistics so idk if people generally know those words but they're useful! Conjugation is for verbs and declension is for pretty much all other grammatical groups (nouns, adjectives etc) and it's a way of describing a group of words that change in the same way. Like, "girl" and "boy" are in the same declension because it's girl/girls/girl's/girls' and boy/boys/boy's/boys'. But are you saying there could be a sentence with three different words written identically? Is the word order in Hebrew very ridgid then so that it's easy to understand which one's which? For example, in English you can only say "a cute cat" and not "a cat cute" so you know an adjective will always be followed by a noun. I hope that explanation makes sense. The å/ä/ö in Swedish are treated as their own letters so they're not just a variation of a/o. The little circle represents an o and the two dots started out as a lowercase e that's been simplified over the years so you can think of them as a combination of those letters. The e is more obvious in Norwegian and Danish where Ä/ä is Æ/æ. Å sounds a bit like the "o" in bored or the "oa" in board but it's a bit deeper. Ä sounds like the "a" bad or land but also like the "e" in ten or the "ie" in friend. Ö is usually very difficult for English speakers but it's similar to the "a" in an and the "e" in her. It has the deepest sound of all our vowels. But this is just in standard Swedish! The pronunciation of these letters on there own is pretty much the same all over the country but in longer words they vary a lot depending on your dialect. In many my dialect the ö often sounds more like a u and the ä sounds more like an e (not the English u/e)

[@kennithbot]

*this episode should be called The Journey of Snake*

[@bluesbest1]

Journey to the East?

[@SaturnDotCom]

Journy to the center of the earth?

[@sammieegoldwand]

The journey of the snake

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

But then how does he get turned into a monster to be used in a children's card game?

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Just Some Guy with a Mustache YOU ARE EVERYWHERE.

[@chapablo]

The most powerful thing in the universe: Merchandising!!

[@adamisme5939]

Through a snake. Duh.

[@gendersucks1354]

YOU LIKE MYTHOLOGY TOO?!? I WANT YOU TI BW MY FRIEND

[@grayblackhelm2070]

Human arrogance. And in any case, Winged Dragon Ra is illegal in regular play.

[@cameoshadowness7757]

"Anyone who has to be a wake a 5 AM can confirm." Lol true for me.

[@melizabeth9194]

I've been serceing for this coment

[@demi-femme4821]

I've pulled several all-nighters after an unhealthy binge of Pokemon Conquest.

[@agustinvenegas5238]

Oh god that's so true, 5 am is miserable if you're getting up and if you're going to sleep

[@somewhatuselessstudios6084]

True

[@runningonmTee]

Hey Red, thought I'd let you know that your video inspired me to run a DnD campaign where Selkhet and Horus go missing, and so the players have to journey into the Duat and fight Apophis in their stead. We just finished the campaign today and it was awesome! Thanks for inspiring me :D

[@Huy-G-Le]

Snakes in Egypt *Exist* Jormungand: “Guy, can I join the community?”

[@fantasyshadows3207]

Quezaquatull: *lands on to the ground* don’t worry We came to help

[@CJCroen1393]

Apophis: I kinda have your job covered, dude.

[@shadowprincess9817]

@@CJCroen1393 Look, Apophis is cool and all but maybe, just maybe he always lose cause he is alone against all other gods so...with Jormi's help he might have a better chance in getting his job done for once...

[@cupanodensetsu2420]

@@shadowprincess9817 actually he some times succeeds at devouring Ra then Ra emerges out of his stomach and defeats him which represents a solar eclipse

[@xxshadow_sappirexxchewputt4672]

Dat's true, i mean he IS a giant snake-

[@rachelhanger888]

“The sacred apes that live on monu go crazy morning about ra’s death.....oh yeah he is dead now” Me: woah slow down a minute

[@OhMercyMe]

This was like... Dante's Inferno on bathsalts. Snakey, snakey bathsalts.

[@jaceyb3792]

or is Dante's inferno a version of Ra's Journey on de-snake-ing salts? (though there is the circle for thieves being a magical pit of snakes so the salts mostly worked)

[@mirrorzone5224]

I thought Dante's Paradiso was the one where everything gets high as shit.

[@redwitch12]

Let's not give the video-game industry ideas for yet another mythos to abuse in the name of hack-and-slash-action-adventure games...

[@lion9575]

@@redwitch12 Well there is Titan Quest

[@drascin]

@@redwitch12 Honestly, this seems like it would make a pretty good action game. "The twelve goddesses of the night barque got kidnapped, and now it falls to your plucky hero to accompany Ra for an entire night, braving a bunch of trials to ensure the Sun raises again" seems like it could make for some pretty good stuff in the vein of Dad of Boy.

[@shaddyFoofer]

Overly Sarcastic: Talks about aincent egypt Overly Sarcastic: uses music from the Aincent egyptian assassins creed game

[@rebeccaosser4907]

Also "prince of egypt"

[@najirruiz4419]

I noticed that too, what a great ear!!

[@KasumiRINA]

Literally got flashbacks to going through Duat and fighting Apep now

[@bombatomica_6449]

Thank God I am not the only one that has the ac origins theme imprinted in his mind

[@KhoaLe-uc2ny]

Soooo inside of a giant snake is another giant snake that destined to destroy everything surrounded by other snakes, some even have leg and extra heads?

[@jamesharrison658]

snakeception

[@dustonpage1280]

Cherub vore.

[@charleshills1408]

Snakes: 100

[@nadiaparamita101]

@@jamesharrison658 *yes*

[@chewxieyang4677]

Yo, dawg, I hear you like snakes, so I put a snake inside a snake and wrapped a snake around it.

[@francescapatti2934]

Ra passes through the night gate. Narrator: This is where the fun begins

[@NathanTAK]

Snarrator

[@BlueMiaou]

i read this in the stanley parable voice. very fitting, in my opinion.

[@Jon_beetle]

Would anyone else kill for a clock which displayed which part ra was at at the corresponding hour- would make all nighters much more fun. ‘Oh, the giant snakes are fighting ,that’s fun enough to distract me from the mount of work I have!’

[@cjsmalley5506]

Yes, yes, yes!

[@nocturnecz3965]

Oh, yes please! That sounds awesome!

[@jocoserious17]

That should be an app for phones

[@ibisprodctions]

If anyone finds something like this send it to me plz XD

[@thesensiblesupervillain4625]

Yessss

[@lolathetomboy]

Went to google a picture of khepri and it literally looks like someone stuck a sticker of a beetle on Ra's face.

[@moobloom155]

Yup

[@SarahAbramova]

I looked it up and you're not even joking

[@SarahAbramova]

6:40 even Red gets it 7:10 here too

[@andrews.9647]

*Drinking game!* Take a shot each time red says “Snake” and or “Snek” Edit 1#: The year is 2020... thousands of deaths are at my hands. Damn this snek game.. Edit 2#: You know what? Fuck 2020. Can wait for this shit to be over

[@OddballoftheInternet]

Dude, are you trying to kill people?

[@andrews.9647]

Maybe :3

[@alanadi_angelo367]

How to die alone 101

[@tntguardian6455]

Andrew S. Challenge accepted. Just going to call some friends first and a few shot glasses.

[@andrews.9647]

TNTGUARDIAN 64 Omg 😂 Please tell me how it went 😂

[@black-op345gaming5]

5:56 “...Who’s sacrificing trading cards?” Let me guess? Yugi Moto?

[@iceluvndiva21]

Boooo

[@conradlecroy5821]

Black-Op345Gaming Oh my god!!!!!!!

[@ShermTank7272]

Gotta sacrifice three gods to summon Horahkti

[@nlyrics156]

I literally don't pay attention to these dialogues...

[@cielle.etoilee]

he's on the side at 4:55

[@darthparallax5207]

Between the emojis and the bad spelling puns, the internet speaks 100% perfectly fluent Ancient Egyptian. Who would have predicted THAT? I mean besides the Illuminati.

[@DanielSmith-mp4le]

@ Darth Parallax it's actually my theory that the English language is slowly turning into a hieroglyphic language and it'll actually be made official in like a couple hundred years or so.

[@kallistiravenhurst5232]

@@DanielSmith-mp4le so... we'll go full circle written-language wise? nifty~ can't wait for the inevitable deciphering of the arcane symbols where people can't figure out why so many characters are used for things like 'computer' and 'politics'

[@DanielSmith-mp4le]

@@kallistiravenhurst5232 Language constantly evolved and changes it's an inevitable thing just try and understand something written in Old English and you'll see what I mean.

[@mailchibi88]

Don't forget the cats~! :3

[@Grim_Sister]

(Whispers) Shhh! Not so loud! We don’t want them to hear

[@innitheotaku3883]

“Basically, weird things happen at 4 am” yea no that’s pretty accurate

[@robertminnie782]

That was awesome. 'Journey of Ra' should be made into a feature-length film already! Seriously, that would make for quite the cinematic adventure. Plus, it could be a massive eyegasm with the right special effects or animation. And I loved the ending song you picked for this one, Red! Beautiful

[@ecthelionalfa]

They will fuck up

[@robertminnie782]

@Bright cloud Always. As will eargasm. 😂

[@robertminnie782]

@@ecthelionalfa Probably. Already one movie of Egyptian gods I haven't heard many good things about... But I'd like one with quality SFX, accurate representation and decent storyline, at least.

[@vaughnjohnson8767]

Ya

[@adamzheng4362]

The movie: Snakes

[@smallishkae]

Skipped over the fact the Ancient Egypt’s knew a day lasted 24 hours. Smart dudes.

[@Alphapkmn]

smallishkae They also knew a year was 365 days (technically 360 plus the five created to produce Osiris, Isis, Set, Nepthys and Horus)

[@smallishkae]

Alphapkmn that’s pretty awesome.

[@Alphapkmn]

smallishkae Yup! Nut was essentially given a similar treatment to Apollo and Artemis' mom, only worse: Ra said she couldn't give birth on any of the then-360 days of the year. Her solution? Go to either Thoth or Khonsu (which ever one is pulling lunar god duty) and play Senet until she won enough moonlight to make five extra days. Each of those days, she gave birth to one of those gods.

[@101Mant]

smallishkae it's not like the hour was some universal constant. They divided the day into 24 portions and called them hours, or the ancient Egyptian equivalent. So an hour was 1/24 of a day by a definition they invented.

[@thirteenfury]

Mark Antill Exactly! The Chinese and Japanese lunar calendar has 12 hour days where each hour corresponds to one of the zodiac signs, but a single hour in that system is equivalent to two hours of standard time. However, it depends on who you ask if (for example) the Hour of the Ox is 12am-2am or 1am-3am.

[@743d43ladyfae]

*Wakes up at 5am* Ahh beautiful morning with the sounds of agonizing screams and the smell of burning flesh!

[@shainxan]

I also heard that Set is supposed to help guarding the journey of Ra after being embarrassed by Horus

[@MichaelMiller-tm2os]

This is the generally accepted myth, but Egypt was really big. Each region had their own spin on certain aspects.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Also, that was what that little interruption was about, in case you didn't get the chance to pause it in time.

[@colt9836]

In some myths, all the others gods who protect Ra during his journey are hypnotized by the sna/ke; but not Set. So he is the only one who fights. We must understand that most of Ancient Egypt didn't have a "good vs evil," dichotomy but rather an "order vs chaos" one. Ma'at (order) and Isfunt (chaos) are constantly at war; all of the Gods, including Set, are supposed to, first and foremost, uphold Ma'at and fight Isfunt. Set acts as Ma'at deems it so; he is the controlled fire. When firefighters set a piece of land ablaze to weaken and suffocate a raging wildfire, that is Set. Ancient Egypt had both dozens of city-states and literal millennia of history, trade, religion, and conquest.

[@phoenixbelcher7831]

* breaks thru door* SHE BACK.

[@smultronpojke4010]

She protecc She attacc But most importantly Red is bacc

[@user-hn5bi3nw9y]

Is it a Killer But on your profile?

[@namingisdifficult408]

HURRAH

[@anniel6479]

My reaction

[@merrittanimation7721]

And with snakes!

[@jesuschrist9513]

Only Egypt can manage to have gods with such names as Hh and Rnpt

[@markmayonnaise1163]

They didn't write down short vowels

[@graemelewis7264]

@@markmayonnaise1163 They didn't write down -any- vowels until the Coptic Alphabet came around.

[@HAL-iv2kd]

Happens that they registered that names first. And to name a god "Re777" is awfull

[@kuzzam6626]

Almost all semitic languages don't have vowels in their alphabet like Arabic and Hebrew. These languages adopted some sort of movements in the modern time to help foreigners speak correctly the words. Phonetically speaking these languages do have vowels but people don't write them down. The logic being is people can assume how the word is pronounced from context. This was the case for ancient Egypt and that's why only the gods whose names were written in Greek during the time of hellenized Egypt are the ones which we know how to pronouce their names aka Osiris, Isis, Horus. Minor Gods like Sekhmet we only got to know the consonants making up their names and historians just added e's as they believes it was the most probable vowel. This has always been a problem studying semitic old civilizations in the middle east like Phoenicians because outside of the roman or greek records we wouldn't know anything about how they called things or their gods.

[@abbyfisher8079]

@@kuzzam6626 small correction, ancient egyptian isn't semitic, but related to semitic as a part of the afroasiatic language family

[@spiritedrenee9895]

1/10 Needs more snakes.

[@saltyk9869]

I had the same thought.

[@qwertyuioph]

7.8 too much ... non-snake

[@somethingstrange7184]

I agree

[@pyotraleksandr4996]

I agree

[@person6191]

I agree

[@haraldemerson7496]

Red’s rendition of I’ll Follow You Into The Dark was absolutely beautiful.

[@Nikos-o-gamer]

In which part ?

[@steinmaniac7920]

But does Ra make a jouney to the west though?

[@TheLostArchangel666]

Since the sun sets in the east... No, he'd make a journey to the EAST instead... But then on his way back he'd make a journey to the west again, through the night? So yeah, he makes a journey to the west! Also... Lol. Neat name.

[@steinmaniac7920]

Nils Vos Makes sense, I guess! =) Ra would either be the best, or the worst cab driver of all time... Thank you very much! My name is a very accurate description of my mindset, now excuse me, I must debate a squirrel! (I never got why it's always quirrels, I haven't seen one of those in forever. I am far more often distracted by birds...) Cheers! ;)

[@Valkyrie2702]

Because squirrels are like kids with ADHD, or at least like me. No freaking attention span, always running around, and always hyper as all hell.

[@yasminafarih3681]

Sokrates with ADHD Great name!

[@bluesbest1]

@@TheLostArchangel666 Sets...in the east... Can you say that again, slowly?

[@enderpup9289]

2:57 "wolf headed war god wepwawet " that's a lot of Ws and he's a fluffy boi

[@simoneangeliquemaloney3990]

You mean fluffly girly

[@glamorgirl911]

he is anubis brother in the mythogly or half brother since wepwawet is the son of set

[@PLScypion]

Not enough snakes.

[@Snowmon89]

Hm… needs more mongoose.

[@namingisdifficult408]

How about both. Oh wait...

[@Scotch20]

Agree.

[@user-nb8tk6hh6x]

Ravenous o

[@justanotherstray]

Okay I know everyone already caught the sacrificing trading cards reference, but did ANYONE ELSE notice that Yami/Atem is standing with the shadowy people in the 6th kingdom?? That is definitely spikey hair and an eye on the forehead

[@Lemonaidz7]

Wow following Ra would be Indiana Jone’s worst nightmare

[@sonatamoon8187]

Oh my gosh, this is beautiful to imagine.

[@MegaChickenfish]

Indiana Jones and the River of Ra, somebody make this happen.

[@samualwatkins]

I smell a SEQAL!

[@beansoupp7853]

Mine too tbh

[@a.morphous66]

Indiana Jones and the Frantic Panicking for 12 Hours.

[@kelleychoo1893]

this is my favourite series of the channel. I love this too much ;-;

[@trashwazhere6067]

Same👍🏼

[@cassiereno114]

Red's the funniest of the two, though Blue's pretty damn funny too.

[@janmeshd]

Kelley Choo I agree

[@marley7868]

so the Egyptian gods knew fusion

[@poilboiler]

The aliens who got contracted for the pyramids must've told them.

[@tacosaurus3517]

*Tries to contain Steven Universe reference*

[@xxkannaxx1108]

Was it the dragon dance?

[@reyonXIII]

And they didn't even need Polymerization. I guess they invented Contact Fusion. Also, i wonder what cards were sacrificed

[@drimwalkr8923]

Bro, all the cards. The Egyptian Gods were like Glad Beasts: anything can fuse

[@themandownstairs4765]

i love how at nighttime there are twelve strong goddesses to fight off danger and also the end of the world while Ra just has a power nap

[@noreenmerasty813]

5:54 Damn, you would have to be loved for somesone to sacrifice their trading cards

[@enkiimuto1041]

"Who is sacrificing trading cards?"

[@yunamchill9169]

Nico from PJO maybe?😉😶

[@triton8583]

WiNgeD drugen of reeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@mamabear1394]

Kaiba why are you burning those cards? They belong to Joey Wheeler. It had to be done. Its the little things Yugi.

[@ppapshrek4485]

Wait so this happens every night? Damn those god/goddesses have to get tired sometime right?

[@benjaminfricke4791]

Apophis is pretty darn persistent, too. This guy has failed every night for all of eternity, but he keeps on trying to eat Ra.

[@rynobehnke8289]

@@benjaminfricke4791 Well given how close he comes during every Solar Eclipse does his goal not seam unreachable I guess.

[@carlosvalois8966]

@@benjaminfricke4791 he's the ancient egypt version of a 90's children cartoon villain. I can hear it now, shrieking "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME RA!!" as Isis and Horus look to the camera with the faintest of smiles

[@mistylover2082]

@@carlosvalois8966 which villain is that?

[@sak4933]

@@benjaminfricke4791 that gives me powerful Bowser vibes

[@themandalorian3339]

Interestingly, there are many other descriptions of Ra’s journey through the night. In the one I’ve heard, Ra defended himself against Apep, calling upon parts of his identity as Khnum (evening), Atum (noon), and Khepri (dawn). As Ra grew weak and senile, however, it was not the night goddesses who defended him. A host of other gods, such as Isis, Horus, Set,Thoth, Sekhmet, and Bes, kept the sun god safe through the night, as Apep continually attacked throughout the journey. It is also said that the seventh house was the pit stop with Osiris. The eighth house was the House of Challenges. As Khnum, Atum is reborn through a lake of fire before entering the Fourth House. Khepri is regained after the Twelveth House as well. These are just how I learned the myths, and yours was more entertaining. Great job!

[@renGW7]

When I was seven I was into mythology so I named my cat Isis. Then of course.. the terrorist group was born and now I have to explain my cat's name every time I introduce her to someone. We tried renaming her a few times but none of the other names stuck because she's been called Isis for so long.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

I'd recommend renaming her after Isis sister Nephthys, but good luck pronouncing that correctly.

[@nsdtgabe4082]

Lily Gray-Wright Why not Aset? It's the original egyptian name

[@renGW7]

The name was less about what the goddess was like, more about the fact I thought the names of gods and goddesses were cool in general. Keep in mind I was around seven at the time I named her.

[@martonlerant5672]

Yeah, nomen est omen XD Then it should either drink the blood of its victims, or 90% alcohol 24/7...

[@renGW7]

Isis likes to kill small animals and eat them. She also drinks.... out of the toilet exclusively.

[@iamtheV0RTEX]

An interesting perspective that the Egyptians had on their mythology is that they understood that the stories they told were only symbols, analogies, or representations of the "true" existence of the gods. Basically, the gods themselves are so cosmically beyond human understanding that by necessity we have to simplify and explain their existence in ways that makes sense to us puny mortals. This, combined with thousands of years of cultural evolution and local preferences for particular gods, meant that gods got mashed together and remixed a whole bunch, but this was seen as totally okay because it's not like telling a different story changes the way that the gods actually work. If you say the sun god is Amun, and I say the sun god is Ra, then we can just make up a new god Amun-Ra and everybody wins.

[@thirteenfury]

Ben Wilson Personally I picture Egyptian gods (and most Native American animal spirits) as human, animal, and animal-headed human _all at the same time_ but they reveal themselves in a particular physical form when they must perform a certain function. In the spirit world they look like all of their forms combined but of course humans can't comprehend that image without going insane.

[@Rhino-n-Chips]

"Who's sacrificing trading cards?" That fabulous pharaoh with the mulitcolored hair, I'm guessing

[@zipzapzooooooom]

I believe the fabulous pharaoh with multicoloured hair can be spotted at 4:51 ;)

[@Moyuukii]

Brileaf ツ haha I did not see that one coming xD

[@emptank]

I chose to believe that Set and Horus both guard Ra from Apophis with Horus doing the job most of the time and Set tagging in when Horus is to busy guarding and ruling Egypt. Set wears the whole Horus mask because he doesn't want to ruin his whole image as a chaos god and let people know he actually kind or cares for old Ra. He's not fooling anyone though.

[@izzy1221]

I'd love being in the Egyptian underworld. So many snakes! I love spooky noodles.

[@fmcypher4823]

Isagail spooky noodles is noq my favorite thing in the world. Me and my friend use danger noodle, I like yours better.

[@a.morphous66]

Spooky noodles shall henceforth replace the word snakes in the English language.

[@Smeghead76]

a.k.a. Danger Noodle a.k.a. Nope Rope

[@tehrealcoralsnek7044]

I clearly agree.

[@quinnzykir]

Spoopy noodles.

[@konfusion6411]

Apep/Apophis; Giant snake and underworld powerhouse that wants to end all things by eating the sun/god of the sun Quetzalcoatl; Giant snake god of creation, the arts, and the dawn whose brother is the sun/god of the sun who keeps the world in balance by not letting the darkness literally eat the world In a perfect world we'd get a VS movie between these two (at the very least a comic book)

[@gregorymckenzie7511]

Quetz.: "So yeah, that's how I was born." Random soul: "But what do you DO?" Quetz.: "Well, you see. I-" [Qutzalcoatl's phone rings] Quetz.: "Hang on, I gotta take this... Hello? Oh hey Isis! What, Mehen is sick? Okay, see you there." [turns back to the other guy]

[@sylendraws1249]

5:11 Yay ISIS saved the world!!! Wait a second that doesn't sound right.

[@pandeonwaters5096]

:P

[@Abd121]

not ISIS, Isis... one is an Acronym and the other is a Name

[@IceQueen975]

The terrorist group of today is ISIL. Not ISIS. The western news fucked that up.

[@lexalina132]

IceQueen975 doesn’t ISIS as the acronym stand for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria? Sounds pretty accurate to me, given their base of operations and what they want

[@pandeonwaters5096]

+icequeen975 copy pasted what it says here i think it can be either: As al-Shām is a region often compared with the Levant or Greater Syria, the group's name has been variously translated as "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham", "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (both abbreviated as ISIS), or "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (abbreviated as ISIL). ... Dāʿish (داعش‎), or Daesh.

[@barrylyndon5552]

Person with severe ophidiophobia when they die "Oh thank Ra, I was so tired of that life. At least now, in the peace of the kingdoms of heaven and night, I will finally be at peace from snakes" Osiris is like "...."

[@ArcherBro]

Honestly, why aren't there more stories based on Egpytian myths with Apophis as the villain? Set's bad, yes. But he wasn't omnicidal. I mean, look how TV Tropes describes him as a "Complete Monster." "Apep, more widely known in the West by his Greek name, Apophis, the Egyptian god of darkness, chaos, and destruction. Residing in the Underworld, Apophis took the form of a colossal snake, and every night, would attempt to devour the sun god Ra, as he made his way through the land of the dead, hoping to leave the world without light or life. During the day, while Ra was in the sky, Apophis would feed on those dead souls who were not properly protected against him, leading to their complete obliteration. His motives for doing so were that, as a primordial being associated with the dark, he hated the fact that there was a sun, or life on earth, and aimed to go back to the way things used to be. He was also the leader of armies of demons, and sought to subvert mortal confederates into aiding his nihilistic agenda. Reviled by all the other deities, including Set (who eventually took on the role of God of Evil), and universally loathed in Egypt, Apophis was the only god to have the distinction of never being prayed to. Instead, temples and ceremonies were set up to pray against him."

[@malcomalexander9437]

There is the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan where Set was being manipulated by Apophis.

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Archer-Bro In stargate he was the first big bad villain, though they shit on all Egyptian Gods.

[@matthewmuir8884]

The Rising Theurge Stargate s--t on every myth and legend that they touched. I tried watching the shows, and couldn't handle what they did. I particularly dislike what they did with Arthurian Legend. Malcom Alexander Yeah; the Kane Chronicles did a good job with that. Not only did Apophis manipulate Set in the first book, Set actually helped the heroes in books 2 and 3 out of not wanting to see Apophis swallow the sun and destroy the world.

[@josephdavis9234]

Kane Chronicles also fixed a problem that's even more common than casting Set as the villain: casting Anubis as the villain because everyone in Hollywood just hates death gods.

[@nekoqueen5524]

Joseph Davis Like casting Hades as the villain as well. I sort dislike Riordan did with him in the Percy Jackson books but, well, he wasn't a villain for the sake of being evil at the very least in the first book.

[@anastasiap6253]

You’re seriously underrated,Red:(You and Blue deserve so much credit:)

[@Stelvei]

Set was amazing before (and in my opinion after) the demonization of him after the Hyskos left Egypt. He held a title of "Protector of the Dead" and held the ladder up to the Heavens for them--the dead--to enter the Duat. I find it really interesting to read about his myths before the Egyptians slapped "God of Foreigners" on him and said "Fuck you, asshole" and then proceed to shit on him. Then, once the Greeks, Romans, and eventually Christians got their shitty little fingers on him, they demonized him more. So yeah, Set has a lot of GREAT and GOOD deeds as a protector of not only the dead but the living as well.

[@rayzersun6705]

Huh, I thought Set represented like the "necessary evil" in the world. Sure there's chaos and destruction from Apophis but that's *absolute* and Set kind of needs a world to actually cause chaos. Idk, I mostly got this from already-existing info the Kane Chronicles. In my opinion, Set originally had that ruthless and aggressive characteristics but his domains different. And just as u said, it got changed slapped a "Shitty" Sticker and became the First Evil Uncle Scar in history

[@cdnlightning1080]

I can't get it out of my head that the first few time Kehpra tried to land on Ra, he got shoo'ed away because one of the goddess's were scared of bugs

[@Erish_Kygal]

To those who keep commenting about Journey to the West V. Wait more patiently. Based on their twitter, red posted a frame featuring wukong so that means she's working on it. Please wait patiently. Drawing frames takes a lot of work and Journey to the West isn't nescesarily a short story. Please understand. It'll come soon. Just be patient.

[@Alphapkmn]

Ralph Elvin Macanlalay Yes. This. EXACTLY

[@natanharel]

Did... Did Red just reference the Egyptian God cards from Yu-Gi-Oh at 5:57? Gods I love this channel.

[@epicfail7874]

@@seiryuu_1767 which one

[@greenfox18z40]

@@epicfail7874 the 4th one in one of the rows

[@imlonelypleasehelp5443]

Nathan Allen where’s the reference?

[@bloodstoneore4630]

I hope someone sacrificed pot of greed

[@robertminnie782]

Shit, I didn't even get that - that's hilarious! XD

[@crystalhearts1]

I like the mythos where set is the other god it's like he and Horus have this love hate relationship but they won't just abandon the other to fight a giant snake.

[@crystalhearts1]

Mullerornis yup I love those type of stuff because it seems that the fight and everything was just them being brothers. But you know their God's so their rivalry goes up to a hundred

[@maddie9602]

If I remember right (it's been a long time since I last formally studied mythology), in some versions of the myths, Osiris, Horus, Isis, Set, and Nephtys were all siblings (I think they were children of Ra or something), while in others Horus is Osiris and Isis's son, and Set is his uncle. Even more so than Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology can be confusing and has several conflicting versions. Perhaps not surprising, given that the mythic system was practiced for thousands of years.

[@LunDruid]

All of Red's art is amazing, but this episode in particular, I would absolutely love to see bound in a wordless narrative picture book, or hanging as a continuous wall scroll.

[@thehazelknight8025]

I didn’t realize that the underworld was full of danger noodles.

[@JohnSears]

I like -trains- *snakes*

[@ditto5068]

John Sears yeah me too

[@turband1]

Sneks***

[@ShootingStarThePony]

Disappointed that the ending song thingy wasn't about snakes.

[@gothnerd887]

I can't think of a single song about snakes

[@argiewithagun1286]

@@gothnerd887 snake eater mgs3, also cobra ost theme.

[@SAMURIADI]

5:57 just realizes the right one is literally a yugioh referance

[@nicholasavasthi9879]

Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?

[@snowgriffin1518]

Nicholas Avasthi could have been spiders

[@kronoscamron7412]

bby wnt some fuck?

[@kronoscamron7412]

because scorpions are inefficient.

[@BWS891]

Asps, very dangerous. You go first Indy.

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

The snakes of chaos deep in the unconscious represented by the night.

[@beepboop3009]

I’m starting to see a pattern but I just can’t put my finger on it,huummmm could it be snakes?

[@theamazingsmiley9785]

It’s definitely bees

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

Jordan Peterson's happy hunting ground.

[@cranberri1484]

NO NO NO YOU MEAN SNEKS, NOPE ROPES AND DANGER NOODLES

[@fluffystuff500]

Nah, it's gotta be cows.

[@CripplingIndecision]

5:59 I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. Just found this channel, and I had to comment on the Yu-Gi-Oh! reference. I approve.

[@Eggy_The_Egg]

6:56 is when Red starts singing. You're welcome.

[@Nico-qh2mi]

VERDICT:snakes, snakes everywhere

[@Ice_Karma]

"Ancient Egypt really liked remixing their gods for some reason"-how about because we're talking about *thousands* of years of history? ;3

[@diegoernestovarelaparra3820]

And because diferent guys got in the spot, so all of them said "now MY GOD IS THE GOD!"

[@KasumiRINA]

Yeah like, Cleopatra is closer to internet in history than to when pyramids were built...

[@harveybeaver9731]

And that's not mentioning politics. They merged their Sung god when the Upper and Lower Kingdoms became united.

[@diegoernestovarelaparra3820]

@@harveybeaver9731 In fact they got so many that it seen even their priest cant count all of them.

[@MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing]

totally making a dnd mini campaign out of this. finding kepri needs a challenge. apophis is a massive boss fight, need to figure out what's up for the rest of it. :P

[@Bluecho4]

I don't know if Ra's Journey, as-is, would make for that compelling of an adventure. It's a trip that's mostly boring, punctuated by occasional danger. If I were making a DnD game out of this, I'd probably use this story as the basis for a fictional pantheon and cosmology. Where the players could travel on the boat but have a more even spread of challenges throughout. Preferably by having the Final Boss actually show up near the end, rather than kind of in the middle.

[@Undomaranel]

@@Bluecho4 I might make it a filler-esque challenge, like the boat in Ocarina of Time's Shadow Temple. It's not why the party is there, but provides a setting for a cool encounter with lots of gimmicks and cool names. Or possibly make it an escort mission for some ancient lich or construct, only to find out at the end it was some forgotten god who gifts lavishly to escape the cycle. If it was a one shot, characters would be minor gods assisting the other gods assisting Ra, or as a ressurection challenge for dead PCs. They have to survive and Ra/ Kepre will reborn them back into the world with the party (bonus points if they go back and the PC pokes their previous corpse). If they fail their soul becomes one with Apothis or another snake in the wastes. There are sooooo many good options with source material like this!

[@liopleurodon2000]

Heh. Yeah, have fun trying to fight Apophis. That thing would wipe out your entire party if you didn't have Ra there to help

[@Aplesedjr]

Liopleurodon 2000 but Ra is asleep during the fight anyway.

[@morganpriest7726]

Lots of snakes of course!

[@theLadyofSpoons]

your rendering of seker, specifically the color pallete, gives me big mothman vibes, really nailing the whole "hidden" theme. very nice 10 points

[@aidanhsieh7613]

CONTINUE JOURNEY TO THE WEST

[@draggyscalie6494]

Aidan Hsieh Yes I've been waiting forever for it to continue

[@marvalice3455]

but every day *is* the journey west for Ra!

[@willowmiku]

Agreed

[@pit2559]

and every night a journey to the east

[@animaker3627]

Please

[@0-astraldreams-0]

EVERYTHING ELSE CAN WAIT, THIS NOW

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

Most of the kingdoms of the night have snakes *BUT ONLY ONE IS THE SNAKE KINGDOM*

[@freyaskinner7385]

I’m listening to these videos because I love history and myths. I also love your creative expression at the end of this series. This one in particular was so beautiful, I’m not ashamed to admit I cried.

[@lexy304]

"Who's sacrificing trading cards..?" XD

[@lunaequinox7333]

Oh sorry that was me

[@MercuryA2000]

5:54 Ra dangit Yugi for the last time stop trying to give Yami more people to play with!

[@vireshnramsoobhag7706]

props for using the music from assassins creed origins in the background, its sick

[@dakit3724]

I thought I was hearing that music

[@CDexie]

What's the music that plays when apophus shows up

[@husseinabdallah2912]

Cosmas Dexie idk if u ever found it, but it's literally just called Apep's Vengeance (Apep is another name for Apophis).

[@michaeldaniels642]

The later version having it be Set wearing a falcon head to look like Horus makes sense cause a chaos and destruction god would likely not want to be seen doing something heroic.