Book of the Heavenly Cow

Divine punishment was inflicted through the goddess Hathor, with the survivors suffering through separation from Ra, who now resided in the sky on the back of Nut, the heavenly cow.

[3] The earliest known copy of the Book of the Heavenly Cow was discovered in the outermost gilded shrine of Tutankhamun; however, the ancient text was incomplete.

[4]: 148–149 The book may have originated from the Pyramid Texts's dawn myth accounts, but by the New Kingdom the idea was developed to explain death and suffering in an imperfect creation.

The final part of the text deals with Ra's ascension into the sky, the creation of the underworld, and with the theology surrounding the ba (soul).

Due to the ancient text containing roots from Late Egypt, it is widely believed among Egyptology scholars that the Book of the Heavenly Cow originated during the Amarna period.

In 1876, Édouard Naville published English and French translations of the version of the Book of the Heavenly Cow from Seti I's tomb.

It sheds light on a question that plagued the minds of Egyptologists for years, the origin of the world (which the section of the heavenly cow deals with).

Anthony Spalinger in 2000 published his translations of the Book of the Heavenly Cow that heavily went into detail about the text as a myth, as well as about the time period it originated in.