Figure above:

Detail of a mural painting from the tomb of Nefermaat (2680-2500 B.C.), in the necropolis of Meidun, representing a pair of geese. In some variants of the creation myth, there is mention of the “Great Cackler”, a primordial goose which laid the primeval egg from which the Earth was hatched. This primordial goose was associated with the creator god Atum, particularly venerated at Heliopolis, and regarded as one of the oldest divinities of the Egyptian pantheon. It was believed that the sharp sound of the goose’s cackle was the first cry that broke the appalling silence that existed before the origin of the world (Lesko 2005c; Remler 2010).

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Figure below:

Picture of an Egyiptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) flighting.