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this is the sun card featuring none other than ra. when the sun is rising, ra is seen as a scarab and noon is when he is the strongest, and down at the bottom in color will be a sunset, showing the weakest point, meaning a reverse meaning to the card.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Eagle
Size 600 x 826px
File Size 338 kB
UUGGGGHHH!! DAMNIT! this here description got me all mixed up, but it also said he can be protrayed as both a man and a falcon, but I suppose the more common one is a man, huh???
damn these mixed up protrayals. or my mixed up brain. >.<;
well damn. wonder what I do now o_o; I'll call it a pretty drawing...
Ra (Arabic: رع)(sometimes Rê based on the attested Coptic name and reconstructed as *Rīʕu (ree-uh-uh) also Phra and later as Amon-Ra, meaning literally "sun") was a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion. Identified primarily with the mid-day Sun the chief cult centre of Ra was based in Heliopolis meaning "City of the Sun". In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was subsumed into the god Horus, as Re-Horakhty (and many variant spellings). He commanded sky, earth, underworld. He was associated with the falcon.
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The Eye of Ra,
Ra is most commonly pronounced 'rah'. It is more likely, however, that it should be pronounced as 'ray', hence the alternative spelling Re rather than Ra. It is not known for sure what Ra's name means, but it is thought it may be a variant of or linked to 'creative', if not an original word for 'sun'. Ra often replaces Atum as the father, grandfather and great-grandfather of the gods of the Ennead, and creator of the world. Ra created Sekhmet, who becomes Hathor after she has sufficiently punished mankind as an avenging Eye of Ra, and so is often said to be the father of both. Mankind was supposedly created from Ra's tears or sweat, leading to the Egyptians calling themselves the "Cattle of Ra".
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* 1 Symbology
* 2 Solar connotations
* 3 Composites
* 4 Worship
[edit] Symbology
Ra is primarily depicted as a man in artwork, wearing a Pharaoh's crown (a sign of his kingship over the gods) and the sun disk on his head. Often he had a falcon's head, much like Horus. Sometimes, Ra is portrayed differently according to the position of the sun in the sky. At sunrise he was an infant, at noon a man, and at sunset an old man. This constant aging was suggested by the Egyptians as the reason Ra stayed separate from the world and let Osiris and/or Horus rule in his place. This idea is often coupled with the myth in which Isis is able to trick an elderly Ra, having ruled on earth as a human Pharaoh, into revealing his secret name, and thus the secret of his power. Ra shared many of his symbols with other solar deities, in particular Horus.
The Benu bird, as Ra's ba and a symbol of fire and rebirth; The sun disk, also shown as the hieroglyphic ⊙ ; Ankh, symbolizing the life given by the sun; Obelisk, representative of the rays of the sun and worshiped as a home of a solar god; Pyramids, aligned east/west Falcon; Bull; Uraeus, a cobra commonly seen wrapped around the sun disk. As the sun, Ra was thought to see everything.
damn these mixed up protrayals. or my mixed up brain. >.<;
well damn. wonder what I do now o_o; I'll call it a pretty drawing...
Ra (Arabic: رع)(sometimes Rê based on the attested Coptic name and reconstructed as *Rīʕu (ree-uh-uh) also Phra and later as Amon-Ra, meaning literally "sun") was a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion. Identified primarily with the mid-day Sun the chief cult centre of Ra was based in Heliopolis meaning "City of the Sun". In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was subsumed into the god Horus, as Re-Horakhty (and many variant spellings). He commanded sky, earth, underworld. He was associated with the falcon.
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The Eye of Ra,
Ra is most commonly pronounced 'rah'. It is more likely, however, that it should be pronounced as 'ray', hence the alternative spelling Re rather than Ra. It is not known for sure what Ra's name means, but it is thought it may be a variant of or linked to 'creative', if not an original word for 'sun'. Ra often replaces Atum as the father, grandfather and great-grandfather of the gods of the Ennead, and creator of the world. Ra created Sekhmet, who becomes Hathor after she has sufficiently punished mankind as an avenging Eye of Ra, and so is often said to be the father of both. Mankind was supposedly created from Ra's tears or sweat, leading to the Egyptians calling themselves the "Cattle of Ra".
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Symbology
* 2 Solar connotations
* 3 Composites
* 4 Worship
[edit] Symbology
Ra is primarily depicted as a man in artwork, wearing a Pharaoh's crown (a sign of his kingship over the gods) and the sun disk on his head. Often he had a falcon's head, much like Horus. Sometimes, Ra is portrayed differently according to the position of the sun in the sky. At sunrise he was an infant, at noon a man, and at sunset an old man. This constant aging was suggested by the Egyptians as the reason Ra stayed separate from the world and let Osiris and/or Horus rule in his place. This idea is often coupled with the myth in which Isis is able to trick an elderly Ra, having ruled on earth as a human Pharaoh, into revealing his secret name, and thus the secret of his power. Ra shared many of his symbols with other solar deities, in particular Horus.
The Benu bird, as Ra's ba and a symbol of fire and rebirth; The sun disk, also shown as the hieroglyphic ⊙ ; Ankh, symbolizing the life given by the sun; Obelisk, representative of the rays of the sun and worshiped as a home of a solar god; Pyramids, aligned east/west Falcon; Bull; Uraeus, a cobra commonly seen wrapped around the sun disk. As the sun, Ra was thought to see everything.
any card :) you could do the chariot, the emperor, the moon, the priestes, swords, disks(coins),...etc. etc.
anyway, I did some research on horus and ra...
RA is the earliest god, and is portrayed as either a man or a man with a falcons head, as is horus, however, ra was incoorporated with AMEN ra, who is the god of something like the seventeenth dynasty, and so that's why horus is more commonly known as the god with the falcons head, however, horus is shown with the two crowns of egypt, and ra is shown with the sun disk....
so confusing.
so I'll add a sun disk, badabing I have a ra sun card.
anyway, I was growling at myself in the previous posts. lol. not you. I never growl at someone for pointing out my mistakes...unless it's my sister >.> lol
anyway, I did some research on horus and ra...
RA is the earliest god, and is portrayed as either a man or a man with a falcons head, as is horus, however, ra was incoorporated with AMEN ra, who is the god of something like the seventeenth dynasty, and so that's why horus is more commonly known as the god with the falcons head, however, horus is shown with the two crowns of egypt, and ra is shown with the sun disk....
so confusing.
so I'll add a sun disk, badabing I have a ra sun card.
anyway, I was growling at myself in the previous posts. lol. not you. I never growl at someone for pointing out my mistakes...unless it's my sister >.> lol
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