WHO IS THE SUN GOD RA, AND WHERE DOES HE COME FROM
Ra came from Egypt and was the Sun God and creator of all things in ancient Egypt.
This period in the history of Egypt was characterized by the existence of many different gods, and the pharaohs were considered personifications of gods.
Ra lived in Heliopolis (City of the Sun - today Heliopolis (Heliopolis is Greek) is a suburb of Cairo).
MYTHS - FAITH
Several myths were associated with Ra and his divine activity.
One of the myths about Ra related that he was born every morning by the goddess Nut - not as a small child - but as a grown god who jumped into his boat and began to sail across the sky in a Manjet boat.
The crew was a variety of gods.
Across the sky, the boat would sail through the twelve provinces, representing the twelve hours of the day. In the evening, he reached the other side of the Earth.
There his mother stood ready and swallowed him.
The following day he was born again, and it continued year after year.
Ra was always on the go.
During the day, he traveled across the sky, but when evening came, he disappeared into a dark underworld, the land of the dead.
During this journey, he was called Auf, meaning corpse.
His boat was called the Mesektetboat on his journey through the twelve hours of the night.
In the underworld, Ra was an evil and black god that everyone feared.
The ancient Egyptians believed that when you died, you went to a land that looked like the Nile Valley.
There one was supposed to live in eternal bliss with the gods. Initially, it was believed that only the royals had an afterlife.
But in the New Kingdom, it was also everyone else.
Ra was king of the gods.
Ra did everything to make both gods and men feel good, but when he was defied, it was the eye of the Sun that was sent down to make amends.
Ra had several different names;
- At first, his name was Khepri, and he looked like a scarab because the Egyptians believed that it was a scarab that pushed the Sun up in the morning. (Photo 1.)
- At noon, his name was Re-Harakhte. He looked like a human with a falcon's head and a sun disk on his head. (Photo 2.)
- At the end of the evening, his name was Atum. (Photo 3.)
STATE RELIGION
For the Egyptians, the universe initially consisted only of a primordial sea until the Sun, personified in the god Ra, rose above the ocean from an egg.
Ra had four children, the gods Shu and Geb and the goddesses Tefnut and Nut. Tefnut and Nut became the atmosphere, and both stood on Geb, the Earth, while Shu became the sky.
The official state religion of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom (2134–1668 BC) had Ra as its chief.
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EGYPT'S RELIGION TODAY?
According to science, all religions originate from Egypt, so it is from here that the seeds of the religion of our time stepped into its childhood shoes more than 4.500 years ago.
Temple of the Sun is made as a journey back to the beginning and a tribute to the fantastic energies here.
