A daring young Egyptian prince must defeat a fire-breathing denwen serpent that has been terrorizing his subjects. His bronze shield is his best protection against the monster’s flaming exhalations, but will it be enough?
Although Nile Valley cultures did not regard snakes as always evil as the Abrahamic faiths of the Middle East would, there were still some malevolent serpents in their mythology. The most infamous of these was Apep, the representative of chaos who battled the sun god Ra every night, but another was the fiery denwen that the Egyptian Pyramid Texts mention as having come close to wiping out all the gods before the Pharaoh defeated it. One wonders if that story would eventually influence later myths of fire-breathing dragons…