God Horus

God Horus

God Horus was one of the earliest ancient Egyptian gods, although until the Greek Period he was visited Hor. In fact, beliefs about Horus and the names by which he was famous varied widely looking on local traditions. Sometimes the deity was experienced as Horus the Elder, or Hor-Wer in ancient Egyptian, a power of good battling evil. He was likewise Horus of Gold, or Hor-Nubti, undoer of the heavy god Seth; Horus of the Horizon, or Har-akhtes, a sun deity who grown part of the solar God Ra as Re-Horakhty; or Harsiesis,  or  Hor-sa-iset,  featured  in mythology as the young son of the goddess Isis. In some myths he was taken  the  son  of  the  goddess  Hathor instead. Worshipped as Horus the Behdetite at a enshrine in Edfu, he was a falcon deity who transformed into a smart sun disk. Elsewhere he was Horus, the Uniter of the 2 Lands, or Horu-Sema-Tawy, who after shelling the evil god Seth united Egypt within himself as king on earth and the god Osiris as king of the divine realm. Thus Egypts kings were sometimes called the physical manifestation of Horus while they were living and of Osiris after they died.

From leastways as early as the 1st Dynasty, Horus was linked with Egypts kings. At that time they leaded off using his name as one of their royal titles and his main symbol, the falcon, as the symbol for kingship. Hence Horus was oftentimes called  the  protector  of  the  king  yet though he was also said to be the king in physical form. Because of this association, the king played the part of Horus in certain fetes and rites.

As a major deity in the Egyptian pantheon, Horus is the subject of some myths. One of these mythsfound in the Chester Beatty Papyrus I and going steady from the Twentieth Dynasty reign of Ramses V tells of a conflict between Horus and his uncle, Seth. The two go before the romance of the gods, presided over by the god Ra, and each argues that he deserves to win Osiris as the living king of Egypt.  Seth  claims  this  right  as  the brother of Osiris, even though he was likewise his murderer, while Horus claims it as Osiriss son and heir. (In other myths, Horus is Osiriss buddy.) The gods consider both lines and begin arguing among themselves, some reading that Seth would make a improved king because of his more advance age and strength and his fierceness; others favor Horus for his goodness and honor and his place as Osiriss son. Afterwards much debate, the gods adjourn without taking a conclusion.

Other features of Horus:

Horus and the Pharaohs
Horuss Four Sons (Canopic Jars)
Egyptian Myth of Creation, Horus with Isis and Osiris
The Elder Horus (Haroeris)
Conflict between Horus and Set (Mythology)
Horus as a Child (Harpokrates)
Horus as Sky god

God Ra

God Ra

God Ra or Re, R  was  the  senior  solar  deity  of  the  ancient  Egyptians,  whose  rage  at Heliopolis, or  Hermopolis Magna, got in the Early Dynastic Period. R was the near standard  solar  deity  of  Egypt,  and  his  cult  united many  of  the  properties  and  mythology  of  various  other temples. Ra looked on the ancient pyramidal stone in the phoenix hall at Heliopolis, as a symbolisation of rebirth and positive feedback. Re cult related itself with material profits:  health,  children,  manliness,  and  the  portion  of  the nation. Representing the sun, the cult was rooted in the raising prospects of nature and light.

The sun was addressed Khepri at dawn, Ra at noon, and deity Atum at night. As Atum the God was showed as a human with  a  double  crown  upon  his  head.  As  Khepri  he  considered the form of the sacred relieved. As R the god was showed as a man with the head of a falcon, overcome by the cobra and the Uraeus. He was also discovered with Horus, then  called  R-Horakhty,  R-Horus.  In  this  figure he was the horizon dweller. At dawn Ra discovered the sky  in  his  solar boat, visited  the  Boat  of  Millions  of Years, accompanied by lesser divinities of his train.

The God Ra looked in the form of Atum in the creation  myths  taught  at  Heliopolis.  Ptah is  suspect  to have determined the egg out of which Ra arose. In the other cosmologic or creation stories of Egypt, R was depicted as rising as a Lotus flower from the waters of the abysm. In turn he begat Geb, the earth, and Nut, the sky. Of these were born Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. The mounting and declining of the moon was the monthly restoration of the Eye of Ra by the deity Thoth. This eye, alongside the Eye of Horus, grown one of the holiest symbolizations of ancient Egypt.

God Ra was the Real King, as Osiris was the Dead King. During the Old Kingdom the conception of the kings taking  the  powers  of  Ra  took source. The kings  went  the corporal  sons  of  the  deity, a construct  that  would  continue endless throughout Egyptian history. Even Alexander III the great afterwards  he  inhibited  Egypt  with  his Greek forces journeyed to the Siwa oasis in the Libyan desert to  be  took  as  a  son  of  the  deity  R  and  be  given  the powers  of  the  true  pharaohs  of  the River Nile.  During  the  New Kingdom the deity Amun was agreed to Ra to get the most powerful deity in Egypt

Other features of Ra:

Relationship of Ra to other gods
The Role of Ra
Ra as Creator

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.