God Ra riding the Solar boat |
When God Ra traveled in the sun boat he was companied by individual other deities accepting Sia (percept) and Hu (command) as well as Heka (magic power). Sometimes members of the Ennead served him on his journey, including Set who overcome the snake Apophis and Mehen who defended against the demons of the underworld. When god Ra was in the underworld, he would visit whole of his varied forms.
God Apophis, the God of chaos, was an great serpent who frustrated to stop the sun boat's journey every night by having it or by checking it in its tracks with a hypnotic stare. During the evening, the Egyptians thought that Ra set as Atum or in the form of a ram. The Mesektet, or the Night boat, would carry him through the underworld and back towards the east in homework for his reincarnation. These myths of Ra presented the sun future as the rebirth of the sun by the sky goddess Nut; thus attributing the concept of rebirth and replacement to Ra and toning up his role as a creator God as well. When Ra was in the underworld, he agreed with Osiris, the deity of the dead, and done it went the deity of the dead besides.