None of the flooding caused by the river Nile could be compared to the destructive floods caused by the Euphrates and Tigris. Therefore there is no Egyptian myth of the destruction of mankind by inundation. According to this myth Re grows old and feels that his authority over gods and man has diminished. He gathers an assembly of gods and tells them that men are plotting against him. He asks the advice of Nun, the eldest of the gods. Nun advises that the eye of Re, in the form of goddess Hathor, should be sent against mankind.
Hathor is sent. She begins her slaughter and wades in blood. But apparently Re does not desire a complete destruction of mankind so he devises a plan for the making of seven thousand jars of barley beer dyed with red ochre to resemble blood. This is poured out on the fields to a depth of nine inches. When the goddes sees this flood shining in the dawn, reflecting her own face in its beauty, she is lured, she drinks and becomes drunk and forgets her rage against mankind. So mankind is saved from total destruction (So now you know who saved mankind from extinction!).
