The True Myth

Ra?

When Clemens heard the name Osiris had shouted, he felt oddly embarrassed about having called out "Horus." The Folklore Experts invited by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, meanwhile, were stunned.

Ra? Horus was actually Ra!

In Heliopolis, the Sun City of ancient Egypt, there had long been a legend that the sun became Horus when it rose above the horizon. According to that legend, Horus was one of Ra's incarnations.

But that was only a local legend.

In the myths told throughout Egypt, Horus had always been the child born of Osiris's corpse and Isis. He was the undisputed lord of ancient Egypt and the Pharaoh's guardian god.

These experts mentioned the theory that Horus was an incarnation of Ra only when they wanted to show off their knowledge in television interviews. At any other time, they cited the account that Horus was the child born of Osiris's corpse and Isis.

But judging by what Osiris had called Horus... it seemed, perhaps, quite possibly, that the story of Horus being the form Ra took when he rose above the horizon was the truth behind the myth. The true myth.

Was there still time to revise the academic papers we'd published?

They could already picture what would happen once word of this spread: for the foreseeable future, hordes of outsiders who barely understood the subject would pluck a passage from their papers and use it to attack the whole thing. Their heads ached.

But then they thought of the historians who had spent half their lives studying antiquity without ever uncovering a god.

Actually... weren't the historians the unluckiest ones?

Folklore Experts only had to revise their articles and retract a few papers. The historians had never made room for gods in their records or sources. Once word got out,