RA - EGYPTIAN SUN GOD

 

The Egyptian solar boat carried the sun around the Earth at night for a new dawn the next day.

 

 

 

The great Egyptian empire prospered by and thus worshipped the source of energy that gave life to their people. 

 

Ra was regarded as the creator of everything, the god of the sun. Ra is usually represented with the body of a man and the head of a hawk, holding an ankh & sceptre. The chief location of Ra worship was Heliopolis (a Greek word meaning city of the sun).

 

 

 

 

Horus: The ancient Egyptian god of the sun, son of Osiris and Isis, represented as having the head of a hawk or falcon.


Osiris: One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. The god of the underworld and judge of the dead.

Isis: The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.

 

 

 

Re - (Ra)

 

Egyptian sun god and creator god. He was usually depicted in human form with a falcon head, crowned with the sun disc encircled by the uraeus (a stylized representation of the sacred cobra). The sun itself was taken to be either his body or his eye. He was said to traverse the sky each day in a solar barque and pass through the underworld each night on another solar barque to reappear in the east each morning. His principal cult centre was at Heliopolis ("sun city"), near modern Cairo. Re was also considered to be an underworld god, closely associated in this respect with Osiris. In this capacity he was depicted as a ram-headed figure.

 

By the third millennium B.C. Re's prominence had already become such that the pharaohs took to styling themselves "sons of Re". After death, the Egyptian monarch was said to ascend into the sky to join the entourage of the sun god. According to the Heliopolitan cosmology, Re was said to have created himself, either out of a primordial lotus blossom, or on the mound that emerged from the primeval waters. He then created Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture), who in turn engendered the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut. Re was said to have created humankind from his own tears and the gods Hu (authority) and Sia (mind) from blood drawn from his own penis. Re was often combined with other deities to enhance the prestige of the latter, as in Re-Atum, Amun-Re, or in the formula "Re in Osiris, Osiris in Re".

 

 

Sculpture in the Ancient Egyptian god style, Ra and Horus. The Solar Lady is a work or art that has been in the making for over 10 years, with Kylie Minogue providing significant inspirational input from her performances.

 

 

 

CAT HISTORY

 

 

 

 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS  |  CAT GODDESSES LINKS  |  CAT MUMMIES  |  CLEOPATRA QUEEN OF EGYPT  |  CLEOPATRA PHARAOH

 

GIZAJULIUS CAESARPHARAOHS  |  PYRAMIDS  RA - SUN GOD  |  SOLAR BOAT  |  SOLAR BOAT

 

 

 


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