[She smiles at that. Perhaps she should have guessed his mind would jump there first.]

They had well over a dozen--to represent the different phenomena of everyday life. Geb was the earth and Nut, the sky. Ra, the god of the sun. And so on and so forth. Their religion was extraordinarily complex, and the most important gods--and how one worshiped them--shifted and changed dependent on the years.

Shall I tell you a story about some of them?