This week, on the Mythos and Legends podcast, it's our very first foray to Egyptian mythology.

And we'll see that if it looks like a coffin, sounds like a coffin, and feels like a coffin,

it's probably just a really cool gift that you should not be suspicious about at all.

The creature this time is a very unpleasant roommate who eats your food without pain for it.

He's extra annoying because he just so happens to have taken up residence in your stomach.

This is the Mythos and Legends podcast, episode 78, The Master Namer.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.

Other stories you might not have heard, but really should.

Today, we're in Egyptian mythology. The most requested mythology I get for the show.

Before I begin, I have to say that, compared to other mythologies I've covered on this podcast,

I am definitely in novice when it comes to Egyptian mythology.

That's why it's taken me so long to get to it.

Today is just my adaptation of one particular version of the mythology.

I've spent weeks researching it, but I'm sure I'll miss something.

If I'm loudly often an area, please send me an email at jasonatmithpodcast.com.

I'm very open to corrections.

Anyway, like any good mythology, Egyptian mythology's interesting, fun, and kind of bloody,

and we're just going to jump right in at the very beginning with raw.

This self-created sun god, doing a little self-creating.

With a blink, raw snapped awake.

Also, he had blinked into existence.

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