Mother of Ra, as reported in the “ Texts of the sarcophagus“, from the beginning, gives birth to him every day to chase away the darkness of the night. He emerged from the primeval Nun with the solar disk between his horns even before there were day and night, death and rebirth. Mehetueret was a cow deified in the pantheon of Egyptian gods called the “H eavenly Cow” or “Great Heifer” and was worshiped as a goddess of rebirth and the great flood. Part of the text was also found on a limestone fragment from the Ramesside period preserved at the Calvet Museum in Avignon (France).
The first discovery occurred in the tomb of Tutankhamun, (XVIII dynasty), then in a small hall, which is accessed from the right wall of the sarcophagus chamber, in the tomb of Seti I, (XIX dynasty), and in the tombs of Rameses II, III and VI, (XIX dynasty). This is the “B ook of the Heavenly Cow” which takes up the most popular myth of the solar cycle, this myth has come to us as it appears on the walls of some royal tombs in the Theban necropolis. This episode of the Bible is now well known by anyone, but less well known is instead a similar episode much earlier than the Old Testament, of which it will certainly have influenced the writing, which appears in the “ Texts of the Pyramids” dating back to the Old Kingdom, (V – VI dynasty).
It was then that God sent the Great Flood that destroyed every living creature except those he had brought to the Ark with Noah. We read in the Bible, (Genesis 6:11 – 13), that, having become the wicked and perverse man, a sinner to the creator, God decided to put an end to all that he had created, but since there was a person, Noah, who he had never sinned against him, he decided he would not destroy all the creatures but he would save a part of it with Noah and his family.