Atlantis through the eyes of Egypt

Continuing my faux archaeological exploration of Atlantis, here is a papyrus fragment from the Middle Kingdom which details a slightly different version of the myth.

The god of the sea is their father, and the divine bull is his son. When the world was in darkness, the people were afraid. They lived in caves as those who hunger. Then did the divine bull offer himself as a sacrifice for their sake, and he was reborn as the sun.

This is meant to allude to a stone age era of cave dwelling humans, and the myth of their salvation through the creation of the sun, which in this case represents the coming of "light" in the broadest sense. The primitive cave dwellers emerge from the stone age, achieve greater knowledge of the world and greater technological and spiritual advancement, and this is credited in a religious sense to the voluntary sacrifice of the most holy creation.