Every Serpent God in Mythology Explained

Every Serpent God in Mythology Explained Apep is not a god in the way most cultures understood gods. He received no temples, no hymns of praise, no festivals in his honor. He was something older and more terrifying than that — the ancient Egyptians called him the embodiment of chaos itself, a serpent so enormous that some texts describe him stretching the entire length of the underworld. Every single night, as the sun god Ra traveled through the darkness on his celestial boat, Apep was waiting.