Though the gods doubted Ra was still capable of being their king, none were brave or clever enough to take the position from him without falling into the influence of Chaos. Some time later, Ra, while ruling the gods and traveling in the sky with his Eye, Bast and his lieutenant, the chaotic deity Set, became forgetful and senile. He then chose the cat goddess Bast to become the new Eye of Ra. Intoxicated, Ra then was able to change her name into Hathor, a gentle cow goddess. The huntress then stopped upon seeing the plain flooded and began drinking the brew, thinking it was her enemies' blood. He ordered those at Heliopolis to brew thousands of beer, mix them with crushed red ochre and pour it at a field.
Ra, now feeling remorseful over what had happened, helped the magicians and mortals by creating a remedy that could bring Sekhmet down. Unfortunately, the lion goddess Sekhmet proved uncontrollable as she began to kill anyone, and no mortal or god was strong enough to stop her. Angered by this, he summoned Sekhmet, his first Eye and the fiercest of all goddesses to destroy the wicked. Ra then grew old, and man no longer feared him or his laws. As punishment, Ra ordered the wind god Shu, father of both Nut and Geb, to keep the two separated. Thus the gods Osiris, Set, Isis, Nephthys, and Horus the Elder were born. However, Ra was somehow defied and thwarted when Nut used moonlight that she won from the god Khonsu to create 5 days and added them to the end of the year, which was later called Demon Days. Paranoid, Ra became furious, ordering Nut to never give birth to any of her children on any day of the year. Then came the prophecy that a child of Nut and Geb would overthrew Ra as king. However, the triumph of Chaos did not happen since the gods were there to protect Ra, the Lord of Order. As Chaos tried to overthrow and disrupt the delicate balance between Chaos and Order, Apophis tried to swallow the sun god as the ancient prophecy stated if the Serpent would be successful in doing this, the world would be destroyed and fall into Chaos.
However, as Order took manifestation in the form of Ra, Chaos also manifested into a giant serpent called Apophis, the god of Chaos who hated all of creation. Following the creation of the other gods, Ra crosses onto the heavens, with his Sun Boat, to uphold the triumph of Ma'at over Isfet, or chaos. Then came Shu's children: Nut, the sky, and Geb, the earth. Ra was powerful and took many forms, but he was alone and chaos surrounded him. In response, he summoned the other gods: Shu, who willed the winds, and Tefnut, who caused the rains to fall. At the beginning there was only the Sea of Chaos, then the first land, the first obelisk, the symbol of Ma'at, came from Chaos, creation from destruction, and from it, Ra rose.
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