My dog Ally and I were laying down together doing some research when we came across Akhekhu. Akhekhu is a dragon in Egyptian mythology. He has a body of a serpent with four legs. He is often depicted to be associated with the deity Seth. Seth is the god of the desert, earthquakes, eclipses, thunderstorms, and foreign lands. He is also the god that helps guide those to the afterlife. He is the Egyptian version of the Greek god Hades. One of the reasons why Akhekhu is associated with Seth is because Akhekhu could be found in the desert.
The legend of Akhekhu was brought to Europe where they made their own legend of him. Instead of having a serpentine body it was of an antelope and a head of a bird but still had some aspects of a serpent. Akhekhu in European folklore also has 3 uraei. The image that is incorporated in this post fits that description.
I find it interesting in how legends are influenced in different countries. There was still similarities but there was also some main differences. Yet images that I kept seeing is of the European description. Which is curious because that’s not even the original form of Akhekhu. I think that this may be because Europe has had a great influence throughout time. Perhaps that because of their travels it is more common than the Egyptian one.
There is something else that I noticed when doing the research. This is yet another god that is related to thunderstorms. In the posts that I wrote about Greek and India the gods were related to thunderstorms. Maybe this is just a coincidence but maybe there is a deeper meaning that I have yet to discover.
Links to the sources that I used:
https://dragons.fandom.com/wiki/Akhekh (this is also the link of the photo)
