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  1. Ra - Wikipedia

    • Ra or Re (/reɪ/; Coptic: ⲣⲏ, romanized: Rē) was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon-day sun. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was believed to have ruled as … See more

    Religious roles

    According to Egyptian myth, when Ra became too old and weary to reign on Earth he relinquished and went to … See more

    Iconography

    Ra was portrayed as a man with the head of most likely either a lanner or peregrine falcon, adorned with a sun disk with a Cobra around it, and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus.
    Ra was repr… See more

    Major cult centerHeliopolis but was worshipped everywhere in Ancient Egypt.
    SymbolSun Disk
    ParentsNone (most accounts) · Khnum and Neith (alternative sources) · Hathor (In the cycle of rebirth) Mehet-Weret (some accounts)
    SiblingsApep, Sobek and Serket (as son of Khnum and Neith)
    Worship

    The chief cultic center of Ra was Iunu "the Place of Pillars", later known to the Ptolemaic Kingdom as Heliopolis (Koinē Greek: Ἡλιούπολις, lit. "Sun City") and today located in the suburbs of Cairo. He was identified wi… See more

    Relationship to other gods

    As with most widely worshipped Egyptian deities, Ra's identity was often combined with other gods', forming an interconnection between deities.
    Amun and Amun-Ra Ra and Amun, from the tomb of Ra… See more

    Further reading

    • Collier, Mark; Manley, Bill (1998). How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (rev. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. See more

    External links

    Media related to Ra at Wikimedia Commons See more

     
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