Mehen

Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat.His earliest references to Mehen occur in the Coffin texts.

In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannigundefinedit is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros.