Two Eyes Cenote [b] sooner or later

Before him was Tawaret, rotund and hungry, with her mouth open wide. Her teeth were like boulders and her tongue was a river leading down to the darkness of her throat—and she waited there while souls were weighed; new souls and old flowed the Duat to those teeth.

That is not your path, spoke a tall bow-legged man. As protector of the path, Bes stood astride the river Duat and the boy's soul was guarded as it made its way. There were shouts and screams where he was going, and Bes' laughter filled the air.

Go, little warrior! Do not be afraid.

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As Kiyya slides free of his mother he is doused in the waters of her womb; the screaming he thinks he hears in this otherworldly space manifests as his first fearsome gasp! He yells for succor, for comfort, for love, and even when he gets these things he yells and fights even harder!