RA

 33 **RA ** // R // a "Great God", was god of the sky, the sun god and the origin of life in Egyptian mythology. Ra, was the symbol of the sun, deliverer of life and responsible for the cycle of death and resurrection.

Its origin spread in ancient Egypt and its main temple was at Heliopolis. Ra primitive chaos separated heaven and earth, air and water. Ra was the abode of heaven, by which sailing boats using two different, one for day and one for night. According to Egyptian creation story, at first there was only the ocean (Nu). Then Ra the Sun appeared, emerging from a flower (or egg) on the surface of the water.

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Its ico nography is a falcon-headed man with a solar disk on it. Another form of worship that was given was Ra-Harakhti, a sun god with a falcon head, crowned with the solar disk and uraeus, with uas scepter and ankh. Its history began in the early Old Kingdom, Ra was only one of several deities that existed, but around 2400  a. c., had become the official god of the pharaohs, who considered their children, and even their reincarnations. During Dynasty V was elevated to national deity and later, related to Theban god, Amun to become Amun-Ra, the principal Egyptian deity. Here you have a link were you have information about Ra: [] // G // od represents the midday sun at its peak period. In the early days it was the most important figure of the Underworld. They said that every night he was traveling in the form of Auf-Ra, the sun. People imagined to travel through the sky using a boat from east to west in a journey that lasted 24 hours. On the day the boat was known as Mandjet, but at night it was said that he was traveling on a barge called Mensenktet. Depending on the timing of the trip was assigned a different name. At dawn he called Khepri, the era Horajti than midday and evening, Autum. When he died, at sunset, Ra took the form of a ram (Auf-Ra) and introduced into the mouth of the sky goddess, Nut, going through the night your body and in this way, struggling with the serpent Apophis, which lived in the deep waters of Nun and tried to prevent the release of the new day. It was an eternal struggle between light and darkness, and if Apophis ever conquer, darkness would reign in the world. During the overnight trip Upuaut (Ofois) traveling in the front of the boat as "opener of the ways". During the twelve hours of darkness, the god visited the twelve regions of the Duat, inhabited by terrible monsters trying to stop the boat, preventing continue its journey. Ra was reborn each morning as a new sun. media type="youtube" key="JDqNIRz_zTY" width="420" height="315" align="center"

Its iconography is a falcon-headed man with a solar disk on it. Another form of worship that was given was Ra-Harakhti, a sun god with a falcon head, crowned with the solar disk and uraeus, with uas scepter and ankh. Its history began in the early Old Kingdom, Ra was only one of several deities that existed, but around 2400 a. c., had become the official god of the pharaohs, who considered their children, and even their reincarnations. During Dynasty V was elevated to national deity and later, related to Theban god, Amun to become Amun-Ra, the principal Egyptian deity.