Ra
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Name
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Sun
Names - Alternate
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Ra-Heruakhty (Ra [is] Horus of the Horizon)
Appearance
Ra most often appears as a hawk-headed man with the uraeus-enclosed sun-disc atop His head.
He can also appear as an Egyptian desert cat, especially in His role as a slayer of Apep (Greek: Apophis)</strike>.
In early dynasties, Ra was never anthropomorphized, but rather conceptualized in the image of the obelisk.
Image Gallery
 Ra |
 Ra in His form as a desert cat, slaying |
Parents
Ra is one of the oldest Kemetic deities as His worship is recorded as early as the second dynasty. In fact, in some of the oldest creation myths, Ra was the self-created one; the divine being who became self-aware within the primordial waters of chaos and created the Seen world.
Consorts
Children
Ra is said to have many children, in fact, as creator, all beings are considered his children. Most notably among them are: Bast, Djehuty, Hethert, Sekhmet, Shu, Tefnut, Yinepu, and the Eye of Ra.
Epithets
- Lord of all Creation
- The Great He-She
- Father of the Gods
Roles
From the earliest times, Ra has been revered as the creator of the universe and Lord of all Creation. He is the created world's first defense against the forces of evil (isfet) and is the quintessential King of the World.
Worship Centers
Iunu (Greek: Heliopolis)
Festivals
Creation Story
Myths
Art
Ancient
Modern
Hymns
Ancient
- Homage to thee, O thou who risest in the horizon as Ra,
- thou restest upon law unchangeable and unalterable. Thou
- passest over the sky, and every face watcheth thee and thy
- course, for thou hast been hidden from their gaze. Thou dost
- show thyself at dawn and at eventide day by day. The Sektet*
- boat, wherein is the Majesty, goeth forth with light; thy beams
- are upon all faces; the [number] of red and yellow rays
- cannot be known, nor can thy bright beams be told. The lands
- of the gods, and the lands of Punt* must be seen, ere that which
- is hidden [in thee] may be measured. Alone and by thyself thou
- dost manifest thyself when thou comest into being above Nu*.
- May I advance, even as thou dost advance; may I never cease to
- go forward as thou never ceasest to go forward, even though it be
- for a moment; for with strides thou dost in one little moment
- pass over the spaces which would need millions and millions of
- years [for men to pass over; this] thou doest and then thou dost
- sink to rest. Thou puttest an end to the hours of the night, and
- thou dost count them, even thou; thou endest them in thine
- own appointed season, and the earth becometh light. Thou
- settest thyself therefore before thy handiwork in the likeness of
- Ra [when] thou risest on the horizon."
Modern
Offerings
Food/Drink
- Oranges
- Popcorn
Items
- Obelisks
- Pyramids
- Suns
- Rays
Stones
Scents
Colours
- Red
- Yellow
- Orange
Flowers
- Sunflowers
- Lotus flowers
- Water lilies
