He frequently fought the 
He frequently fought the serpent Apep in his role as the guardian of the solar barge on its daily journey to the  underworld. This task is surprising, considering his usual relationship with other gods. Depicted as having red hair and portrayed on the Was scepter, he was a patron deity of Lower Egypt, and the centers of his cult included Tanis and  Ombos. According to the Ennead of Heliopolis, he is the brother and husband of Nephthys, though he is not the father of  Anubis, who was fathered by his brother and rival. He killed this brother, who eventually became the lord of the  underworld, only to be avenged by the brother's son, Horus, who tricked him by making him eat some semen-covered  lettuce. FTP, name this Egyptian god of storms and the desert, depicted with the head of a donkey or aardvark.
He frequently fought the serpent Apep in his role as the guardian of the solar barge on its daily journey to the  underworld.