 Apophis was a real Egyptian god, despite many fans difficulty in  finding any information on him. "Apophis" is an obscure Greek name  for Apep, the Egyptian god of darkness and night. The native names  of Egyptian deities are not widely known except to Egyptologists  because most Egyptian mythology was brought to the Western world by  the Greeks, who altered Egyptian words and names to conform to Greek  phonology. For example, the name of Bast, the cat