The Role of Ra

God Ra riding the Solar boat

God Ra in the underworld: Ra was thought to travel on 2 solar boats called the Mandjet (the Boat of Millions of Years), or aurora boat and the  Mesektet, or evening  boat. These  boats  held  him  on  his  journey  through  the  sky  and  the Duat, the  literal Hades of Egypt. While Ra was on the Mesektet, he was in his ram-headed process.

When God Ra traveled in the sun boat he was companied by individual other deities accepting Sia (percept) and Hu (command) as well as Heka (magic  power).  Sometimes  members  of  the  Ennead  served  him  on  his  journey,  including  Set  who  overcome  the snake Apophis and Mehen who defended against the demons of the underworld. When god Ra was in the underworld, he would visit whole of his varied forms.

God Apophis, the God of chaos, was an great serpent who frustrated to stop the sun boat's journey every night by having it or by checking it in its tracks with a hypnotic stare. During the evening, the Egyptians thought that Ra set as Atum or in the form of a ram. The Mesektet, or the Night boat, would carry him through the underworld and back towards the east in homework for his reincarnation. These myths of Ra presented the sun future as the rebirth of the sun by the sky goddess Nut; thus attributing the concept of rebirth and replacement to Ra and toning up his role as a creator God as well. When Ra was in the underworld, he agreed with Osiris, the deity of the dead, and done it went the deity of the dead besides.

God Amun

God Amun

In the Pyramid texts he  is  already  observed  as  a  primeval god,  in  association  with  his  wife Amaunet. In Old Egyptian view he was the moving agent in the obscure breeze; thus he was venerated as deity of the wind and  ruler  of  the  air.  From  the  11th dynasty onwards he is attested as god of Thebes. Here, he coalesces with the sun God Ra to become Amun-Re, and, as Thebes  increased  in  power,  he  grown king of the gods and tutelary deity of the empire. In his content as earlier deity of creation  he  is  venerated  in  the  shape  of a goose; otherwise, the ram is his dedicated animal, a reference to his function as god of  fertility.  After  the  flow  of  Thebes  his cult flied high in Ethiopia and among the oasis inhabitants Ammon.

 Other features of Amun:

Amun as a Fertility God
Temples of Amun
Worship of Amun
Amun in Greece Period
Amun King of the Gods
Amun as a Creator

God Osiris

God  whose  world  is Duat  the Egyptian Underworld. He  is  shown  in  human  form,  as  in his  earliest  coming into court  yet  old  on a block from the reign of King Djedkara Izezi (Dynasty V) which points the head and office of the upper torso of a deity, above whom  are  the  hieroglyphical  symbols  of Osiris's  name.  In  fuller  iconography  his body is represented as wrapped in mummy binds from which his arms issue to hold the wands of kingship  the curve and the flail. His distinctive crown experienced as the Atef comprises a rams horns at its  base,  and  a  tall  conical  centrepiece sporting a hook on each side.

The composition of his name has appealed much  attending  from  scholars  trusting  to discover  an  etymology  down  it  which could lead to conclusive proof concerning Osiriss  origins.  Few  possibilities  have  met with  even  a  quorum  of  acceptation  and most  remain  unconvincing.  From  the symbolizations of the eye and the pot, Osiris has been given sources both east and west of  the  Nile,  e.g.  in  Mesopotamia  as  the god Marduk, and in Libya as an suspect corn-god  bearing  a  Berber  name  which implies the old one. His name has been broken by others to close he who interests the throne or he who pairs with Isis.  It  has  even  been  proposed  that behind  Osiris  there  lurks  an  new mother-goddess  whose  name  might  be interpreted  as  she  who  belongs  the uterus.  However,  the  most  likely  account seems to be the simplest: Osiriss name is linked with the word woser which  would  give  the  smell  of  the Mighty One.


Other features of Osiris:

Osiris in Greco-Roman Time
Osiris as a Father of Horus
Temple of Philae as a cult place of Osiris
Osiris and the Pharaohs
The Gardens of Osiris
Osiris Ceremonies
Temple of Osiris at Abydos