As Philippe Derchain used to develop in his writings at least since his article “Auteur et société” published in the mid-1990s, the Egyptian author is nothing without the Egyptological author. From this point of view, this article will examine the auctorial activity of the Egyptologist as an intermediary between the Egyptian author and the modern reader. A historiographical approach focuses in particular on Derchain’s scientific procedures. In this way, the dynamics of intellectual operations and the tools he employed during his scholarly career in the study of Egyptian religion more broadly and myth in particular are made accessible. This results in a heterogeneous interpretive gesture that a comparison with the reception by the Egyptological reader illuminates, a singular way in which the epistemic appeal and personal development of the Egyptological author emerge from the empirical reading of some significant works.