Talk:Apep

message: There needs to be a disambigous page because the asteroid that will graze planet Earth in 2029 is named Apophis.  More info at asteroid deflection strategies and in this article. User:AlMac|(talk) 06:27, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to agree (belatedly). Three things with the same functional name are enough for a separate disambiguation page. -- nae'blis 18:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: disambiguation

message: Is there any particular reason why Apep can't be listed as both a legendary creature and a demon? There's not a universal agreement on how to qualify creatures as "demons", but being the embodiment of evil, it would seem reasonable to classify Apep as one.--24.255.171.220 (talk) 16:50, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Demon/creature

message: The second picture states: "An Egyptian deity (Set) slays the snake-like Apep". What proof is there that the "deity" is Set? The Set animal is an unknown creature, yet the picture features what looks like a feline. What do others think?
Lordmick 15:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any other mentions of Ra taking the form of a cat? I would assume the depicted deity is Bastet, being Ra's daughter, slaying the serpent. This is not my area of expertise, so I will not edit it. Does anyone know if there is a source for either assessment? Emilius V (talk) 07:17, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes but can't give references cos I don't have my books.  It is not Bastet it is Ra as a cat slaying Apep.Apepch7 (talk) 11:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  An Egyptian deity (Set) slays the snake-like Apep 

message: In consulting primary sources about Egyptian mythology I have never encountered the whimsical stories about how Apep's battles are 
described with Ra. In whatever I have seen or read Ra slays the snake in either his form as a cat or as Montu. Specific citations need to be included to justify this material, as in page numbers and direct quotations.
:I've either sourced or deleted the text you tagged. Some of it I've seen before in non-expert sources (like the link between Apep and solar eclipses), but I don't yet know that it has appeared in an Egyptological source, so I left it out. See what you think. A. Parrot (talk) 21:46, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apep's battles with Ra 

message: I removed these passages from the article because they weren't supported by the source at the end of the paragraph they were in. Some of them are certainly or probably true, but not all:
Also, comparable hostile snakes as enemies of the sun god existed under other names (in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts) already before the name Apep occurred. 
The etymology of his name (ꜥꜣpp) is perhaps to be sought in some west-semitic language where a word root ꜣpp meaning 'to slither' existed. A verb root ꜥꜣpp does at any rate not exist elsewhere in Ancient Egyptian. (It is not to be confused with the verb ꜥpı͗/ꜥpp: 'to fly across the sky, to travel') Apep's name much later came to be falsely connected etymologically in Egyptian with a different root meaning (he who was) spat out; the Romans referred to Apep by this translation of his name. Apophis was a large golden snake known to be miles long.
An IP editor changed "West Semitic" to "South Semitic" shortly before I removed this text, which I consider a particularly dubious claim. The Egyptians were in contact with West Semitic peoples throughout their history, and passages in West Semitic appear even in the Pyramid Texts. Any contact with speakers of South Semitic languages would have been more remote and infrequent. A. Parrot (talk) 23:56, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from the article 

message: — Assignment last updated by Johnstoncl (talk) 19:15, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: History of Ancient Egypt

message: The form of the cat of Ra has spotting and large ears, which to me resembles the serval. Now, servals aren't native to Egypt, but perhaps they were back when Northern Africa was more humid, so might there be a possibility that this "great cat" is a serval? Anthropophoca (talk) 02:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:FORUM. This is not a place for speculation, keep it to sourced additions to the article. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 11:09, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Cat of Ra 

message: — Assignment last updated by Johnstoncl (talk) 01:09, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 311_History of Ancient Egypt