God Mehen

Mehen keeping the bark of Ra

God Mehen was a coiled serpent-deity preservative the boat in which the sun-deity  Ra travels over the Hades. His coils envelope the kiosk on the decorate of the boat. The earliest quotation of the deity comes in a Coffin Text of the Middle Kingdom. Certain representation of the coiled one can be found in vignettes of funerary papyri and on the ramparts of tombs in the Valley of the Kings, specially  Seti I 19th Dynasty ,  and Ramses VI 20th Dynasty.