Numbers in Egyptian Mythology - Five

Examples

• The second god, Rê, named five gods and goddesses.
• Thoth added five days to the year by winning the light from the moon in a game of gambling.
• It took five days for the five children of Nut to be born. These are Osiris, Nephthys, Isis, Set and Horus the Elder - this should not be mistaken with Harpocrates (Horus the Infant) who defeated Set in battle.
• A boasting mage claimed to be able to bring the Pharaoh of Egypt to Ethiopia and by magic, have him beaten with a rod five hundred (five times five times five times four) times, and return him to Egypt in the space of five hours.
• An Ethiopian mage comes to challenge Egypt’s greatest mage—to reading of a sealed letter—five hundred (five times five times five times four) years after the atrocity depicted in it occurred.
• The star, or pentagram, representing the afterlife, has five points.

Fives are less common in Egyptian mythology.