For example, the Book of the Night, like other books, documents the sun's journey but set within Nut, goddess of the heavens. She swallows the sun at the close of the day and gives birth to it each morning. Passages from these books are mostly found in Ramessid period tombs. The Book of the Divine Cow begins with the "Myth of the Destruction of Mankind", the Egyptian version of the story of the great flood. In the beginning daylight was always present, and humans and gods cohabited on earth. This was depicted as paradise, but humans rebelled against the aging sun god, Ra. Ra sent Hathor as his eye (cobra snake) to punish the rebels, who began to destroy them with fire. However, Ra ended up feeling sorry for them and so deceived Hathor into letting some humans live. Ra then rearranged heaven and the underworld and left earth on the back of the celestial cow.
Deities of the Gates
These funerary texts were most stable for royal burials, but for nobles and others there was more variation. For example, in Chapter 144 of the Book of the Dead, seven gates are mentioned, each with its own god, a doorkeeper and a herald. Hence, the last gate was watched over by a god aptly named, "sharpest of them all". The doorkeeper was called "strident of voice" and the herald's was known as "rejector of rebels". However, there could be as many as 21 gates, known as the "secret portals of the mansion of Osiris in the field of reeds", in some texts. Still, they were provided with a number of names or epithets and guarded by a zoo-anthropomorphic deity who was usually depicted seated and holding a large knife. Here, the gates were of a mixed nature, being at times fearsome, such as "mistress of anger, dancing on blood" as Gate 14 was known, or "mistress of the altar", as was named Gate 3. However, the guardians themselves were almost always given terrifying or repulsive names such as "swallower of sinners" or "existing on maggots", for they were to be feared in all events. However, there were a few of these that were never named in the funerary texts at all.
The following are the twelve gates as represented in various royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings:
| Gate | Representative Deities | Features of the Gate Area |
| 1 | The gods in the entrance and the four weary ones | four cardinal points |
| 2 | Apophis and two enneads | Lake of fire |
| 3 | Goddesses of the hours, Osiris and Horus | Lake of life, lake of uraei |
| 4 | Gods of space and time and Osiris | Throne of Osiris |
| 5 | Osiris, Apophis and twelve restraining gods | Circular lake of fire |
| 6 | Osiris, the blessed and punished dead | Stakes of Geb |
| 7 | Lords of provision in the West | Fields of provisions |
| 8 | Fire-breathing serpent, the sons of Horus and ba souls | Waters of the drowned |
| 9 | Deities with nets and Apophis | Area leading to "emergence" |
| 10 | Apophis, face of Re and goddesses of the hours | Area of restraint of Apophis |
| 11 | Gods who carry the blazing light and baboons of sunrise | Area directly before dawn |
| 12 | Isis, Nephthys, Nut, Nun and the reborn sun | The primeval waters from which the sun emerges |
Deities of the Caverns
From a fairly early point in Egyptian history, the concept of caverns in the netherworld became a motif of afterlife theology. Within these caverns, various deities, who were enumerated in the so-called "Spell of the Twelve Caves", stood ready to punish the wicked. The "Spell of the Twelve Caves was a composition known from a papyrus of the time of Amenhotep II and from the walls of the southern chamber of the Osireion at Abydos. Since the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty, a section of this book was also made a part of the Book of the Dead (Chapter 168).
For the enemies of Re, the caverns became a hell, where they were punished and executed, usually by beheading. However, these cavern deities could also supply aid to the blessed dead, giving light, food and protection or allowing them to move about freely.
With the first seven caverns were alternating groups of three mummiform and three anthropomorphic deities, two being male and one female in each group. In the eighth through the twelfth caverns, there existed a varying number of deities. For example, in the eighth cavern there were seven individuals and groups and in the ninth, there were as many as twenty. The deities of the tenth cavern consisted, specifically of:
Beneath the depiction of these deities, their name and number were usually inscribed, together with the offerings prescribed for them and the possible good deeds they could perform.
Deities of the Night Hours
Caverns and gates were both closely associated with specific hours of the night in the netherworld, and each hour of the night was represented by a goddess who was protective or who gave assistance to the deceased. Their nature was dictated by which region in the netherworld that they occupied. Each of the goddesses strengthened the sun god in one way or another, and in the last (twelfth) hour of the night, the "beholder of the beauty of Re" would at last witness the rebirth of the rejuvenated sun.
Hence, the Goddesses of the night were given power by Re to control the life spans of all living creatures. It has been suggested that the ithyphallic deity depicted in the burial chamber of the tomb of Ramesses VI called "he who conceals the hours" could symbolize the power desired by the king to negate the power of time that these goddesses might hold over the deceased pharaoh.
These goddesses of the night were not commonly represented, but appear in characteristically anthropomorphic form in some instances of the New Kingdom funerary texts known as the Book of Gates and the Amduat. We find them in the burial chamber of the tomb of Ramesses I in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes (modern Luxor) where they are depicted in an illustration of the third division of the Book of Gates. Six on each side flank a summary scene depicting the netherworld, in the center of which is a huge coiled serpent known as "he who should be removed". Each of the goddesses wears a five-pointed star on their heads, but otherwise are undistinguishable but for their names and the alternating colors of their individual costumes. There Epithets are:
| Hour | Epithet |
| 1 | Spitter of the heads of Re's enemies |
| 2 | The wise, guardian of her lord |
| 3 | Slicer of souls |
| 4 | Great of power |
| 5 | She on her boat |
| 6 | Proficient leader |
| 7 | Repeller of the snake (Apophis) |
| 8 | Mistress of the night |
| 9 | Adorer |
| 10 | Beheader of rebels |
| 11 | The star, repulser of rebels |
| 12 | Beholder of the beauty of Re |
Pyramids point out to Orion constellation in order to salute father of the gods (Orion) who gave birth to Horus. Blood moon was impregnated by the skull (Osiris) and then Horus was born. Blood moon stands for red giant. Red giant in Orion is Betelgeuse.
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