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Relationship of Ra to other gods

Ra with Amun inside the tomb of King Ramses IV
As with most wide worshipped Egyptian deities, Ra's identity operator was oftentimes combined with other gods, forming an interconnectedness between deities. Amun and Amun Ra. God Amun was  a  member  of  the Ogdoad, doing  creation  pushes  with  Amaunet,  a very early patron of Thebes. He was thought to create via breath, and therefore was named with the wind rather than the sun. As the cults of Amun and  Ra  became  more and more  popular  in  Upper and  Lower  Egypt  respectively  they  were merged  to  create  Amun-Ra,  a solar creator god. It is heavy to distinguish exactly when this compounding passed, but references to Amun-Ra looked in pyramid texts as early as the 5th dynasty. The most common belief is that Amun-Ra was formulated as a new state deity by the Theban swayer of the New Kingdom to unite believers of Amun with the older rage of Ra some the 18th dynasty.

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.

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