The Sunrise As The Birth Of A Baby: The Prenatal Key to Egyptian Mythology

The
Dutch historian of religion, Bruno Hugo Stricker, has been studying Egyptian mythology since 1940 and can
show that this ancient culture tries to understand the development of a baby in the womb of its mother as a
basis to comprehend the origin of the world. In the center of the Egyptian mythology is the Sun God Ra who is
swallowed every evening by the sky goddess Nut and in the morning is reborn through her vulva. The books of
the netherworld describe the adventures and dangers he lives through in the body of this goddess. Every
morning Ra has to attack the biggest of his enemies, the serpent Apophis, whom he defeats by cutting off his
head-the naval cord is severed. Microcosm: the baby is born; macrocosm: the sun rises blood-red above the
horizon