Falsehood despised Truth, and one day he determined a way to punish Truth. Falsehood devised a plan, and he brought a claim before the Pesedjet (the council of primordial deities) that Truth had stolen his magic knife. Though Truth pleaded his case, Falsehood told a much better tale that enraptured and convinced the Pesedjet.

The Pesedjet ruled in favor of Falsehood and then asked him, “And what would you have us do with Truth?”

Falsehood had an answer for that: “Blind him in both eyes and make him serve me as my door-keeper.”

The Pesedjet then ordered it to be done, exactly as Falsehood requested. Though blinded, Truth served Falsehood as his door-keeper well and virtuously. But Falsehood grew angrier each day at Truth’s very presence. Finally, one day, Falsehood ordered his servants to abduct Truth and throw him to a hungry lion to be eaten.

The servants seized Truth and began carrying him to the hungry lion’s den. Along the way, Truth pleaded his case to the servants, begging them to free him. His arguments were convincing.

“He will die in the desert anyway,” said the servants as they let him go.

Truth, however, made it to a small town and went to sleep under a thicket. The next morning, a young maiden spied him. She was taken with his handsomeness and ordered her servants to fetch the man and make him her door-keeper. When the servants had brought Truth to their mistress, she burned with love for him. That very night, she seduced him and she became pregnant with his son.

After Truth’s son was born, he grew rapidly, because he was a young Neteru. He went to school and excelled at all manner of arts and sciences. One day, however, the boy was dismal.

“Why are you sad, my son?” his mother asked.

“Because I do not know who my father is,” the boy replied.

The mother then pointed to the blind man sitting next to their door, and she said, “There is your father. Go sit and talk with him.”

So, the boy sat and talked with Truth. He learned of Falsehood’s betrayal and how Truth had been blinded, humiliated, abducted, and left for dead.

“I will avenge you, my father,” said the boy.

The boy then searched the land for Falsehood. When he found him, the boy grabbed Falsehood’s arm and dragged him before the Pesedjet.

“I am Truth’s own son, and I have come to avenge my father,” the boy declared to the council of gods. “Judge now between Truth and Falsehood.”

Falsehood could not believe this was Truth’s son, for he had ordered his servants to murder Truth many years before. So, Falsehood swore an oath to Amun-Ra, “The boy lies! I swear by the Creator God, if Truth is alive, I will be blinded in both eyes and serve as doorkeeper in the house of Truth!”

The boy then took the Pesedjet to where his father was, and he was found alive. The Pesedjet inflicted severe punishment on Falsehood: he was beaten, blinded in both eyes, and forced to work as the Truth’s doorkeeper.

In the end, the boy avenged his father and Truth was vindicated by the wiles of Falsehood.