Ra with Amun inside the tomb of King Ramses IV |
Amun Ra was held the official title "king of the Gods" by worshipers, and images express the combined deity as a red-eyed man with a lion's mind that had a walking solar disk. Atum-Ra (or Ra-Atum) was another compound deity formed from two altogether separate deities, however Ra broken more similarities with Atum than with Amun. Atum was more close linked with the sun, and was likewise a creator God of the Ennead. Both Ra and Atum were involved as the father of the gods and pharaohs, and were wide worshiped. In older myths, Atum was the creator of Tefnut and Shu, and he was searching from ocean Nun.
In older Egyptian mythology, Ra-Horakhty was more of a title or manifestation than a complicated deity. It translates as "Ra (who is) Horus of the Horizons". It was thought to link Horakhty (as a sunrise directed look of Horus) to Ra. It has been proposed that Ra-Horakhty simply refers to the sun's journey from horizon to horizon as Ra, or that it means to show Ra as a allegorical deity of hope and rebirth. (See advance division: Ra and the sun).
Khepri was a scarab relieved who rolled the sun in the mornings, and was sometimes seen as the morning manifestation of Ra. Similarly, the ram-headed deity Khnum was also seen as the evening demonstration of Ra. The idea of various deities (or different aspects of Ra) ruling over various times of the day was fairly standard, but variable. With Khepri and Khnum taking priority over sunrise and sunset, Ra oftentimes was the representation of midday when the sun reached its peak at noon. Sometimes different facets of Horus were used rather of Ra's facets.