Snake god in ancient Egyptian religion.
1The under-world is yawning, and the giant serpent Apep has come forth from the realm of the dead.
2The titles, catch-words, rubrics, names of Apep and his fiends, and a few other words, are written in red ink.
3"Apep rises?" And Jacky heard a scuttling and pattering as her pursuers fled.
4Some even swim out and grab on, but the serpent Apep stretches out... oh, very far!...
5"Apep!" the ghosts were shouting.
6(1) It occurs under two separate versions embedded in "The Book of the Overthrowing of Apep, the Enemy of Ra".
7"The serpent Apep," whispered Romanelli, "whose body lies in the deep realms of the keku samu where pure darkness becomes an impenetrable solid.