![]() In the New Kingdom, when the god Amun rose to prominence he was fused with Ra as Amun-Ra. At times the two deities were merged as Ra-Horakhty, " Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons". ![]() Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky, the earth, and the underworld. 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 ( / r ɑː/ Ancient Egyptian: rꜥ also transliterated rꜥw /ˈɾiːʕuw/ cuneiform: □□ ri-a or □□ ri-ia Phoenician: □□, romanized: rʿ) or Re ( / r eɪ/ Coptic: ⲣⲏ, romanized: Rē) was the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. Shu, Tefnut, Hathor, Sekhmet, Mafdet, Bastet, Satet, Anhur, Ma'at, Mut Hathor, Sekhmet, Bastet and sometimes Satet ![]() Hathor (In the cycle of rebirth) Mehet-Weret (some accounts)Īpep, Sobek and Serket (as son of Khnum and Neith) In one of his many forms, Ra, god of the sun, has the head of a falcon and the sun-disk inside a cobra resting on his head.
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