The Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead) actually records different versions of the same Egyptian myths, for it tries to describe all the different stories told by local cities and villages throughout Egypt.

The Egyptian creator god is listed as Ra, Amun, Ptah, Khnum or Aten depending on which myth you read, and some myths even say that Nun, the goddess of celestial waters, created the world.

Hathor is the cow-goddess of love, alcohol, dance who is associated with the sun, so is generally considered a good goddess.

However, she was not someone that the Egyptians wanted to anger, nor did the Egyptian gods want to anger her.

One story says that Ra wanted to punish man for laughing at the gods so he sent her to get revenge.

When she killed so many humans that she grew to love the taste of human blood, and Ra had to dye beer red to convince her it was blood to make her pass out.

Ra could have destroyed her for turning so violent and taking things so far, or Ra could have waited for her to wake up and then asked her nicely to stop. Ra just asked her nicely to stop.

A half a dozen different stories describe how Horus was born, however most stories say he is the son of Osiris and Isis.

In later myths, Osiris is happily ruling Earth with his sister-wife Isis when Set kills him and chops his body into pieces to keep Isis from bringing him back to life. (Apparently she'd already done that once.)

Isis put Osiris mostly back together, yet Osiris was well and truly dead this time, so he had to go live in the underworld where he ruled over the dead who had been judged good and worthy.

After Osiris had to leave to rule the underworld, Set and Horus fought over who should rule the world, for each of them said that he should inherit Osiris' throne.

The debate lasted for decades because the gods couldn't come to a decision, but when Isis convinced them to give the throne to Horus.

Set was angry, and that led to a war with Horus.

Egyptians believed the Pharaohs were living reincarnations of Horus left to rule on earth so they actually believed their country was being led by a living god.

Today, many historians believe that this story was made up very late in Egyptian history to try and make Set, the god of Lower Egypt, look bad, yet this story is the one that most students hear today.

Before Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt, Set was described as fighting the evil serpent Apep and Ra's great champion.

After Upper Egypt took over, some stories claimed that Set was Apep and the priests of Set lost most of their power.

In temples across the country, Set was chipped off carvings in major cities but in some villages and oases, people still believed he was a hero-god.

Most people have never heard of the real villain in Egyptian mythology, but Apep was the pure evil serpent who constantly tried to eat the sun and plunge the world into darkness.

Apep became the first major villain in the science fiction show Stargate SG1, however they thought his name was too peppy, so they used the Greek spelling-Apophis.