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===<i>The Destruction of Mankind</i>===
[[File: Sekhmet_louvre.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|Statue of the Goddess Sekhmet in the Louvre, Paris]]
The myth <i>The Destruction of Mankind</i> is known from inscriptions from New Kingdom nobles’ tombs. It is actually part of a longer myth known as <i> The Myth of the Heavenly Cow</i> and although it is in many ways indictive of the emergence of narrative myths in the New Kingdom, it was probably originally composed during the Middle Kingdom. <ref> Lichtheim, Miriam, ed. <i> Ancient Egyptian Literature.</i> Volume 1I1: The New Kingdom (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006), p. 197</ref>
The personalities of some of the Egyptian pantheon’s most important deities is revealed at the beginning of the myth. The enfeebled Re is somewhat of a cantankerous old man who grows tired of humanity for plotting against the gods.