deity
Ra
The Egyptian sun as a god who travels the sky by day and a dangerous below by night. The solar disk is not Ptolemy’s planetary sun.
Also known as Re
Egyptian religion
Ra belongs to Egyptian religion.
Ra is the sun as an Egyptian god. The identification is the religion’s, not a later planetary correspondence.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Ra is associated with Duat.
The sun’s night journey is mapped through the Duat in funerary literature. That below is a solar road as well as a tomb geography.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Ra is associated with Rebirth.
The sun’s rising is the pattern Egyptian funerary hope borrows. Daily return is not a later European rebirth slogan.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Sun is sacred to Ra.
Egyptian temple and funerary religion treats the sun as Ra’s course. The god and the star meet there as an Egyptian itinerary.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Serpent is opposed to Ra.
Apep’s opposition is to the sun’s order. Danger here is an Egyptian night-road hostility, not Asklepian medicine.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Mandjet is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead names the Mandjet as Ra’s day barque. A named solar boat of that god, not the Mesektet, and not a generic ship.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Mesektet is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead names the Mesektet as Ra’s night barque. A named night boat of that god, not the Mandjet, and not a generic ship.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Uraeus is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead treats the uraeus as the rearing cobra of Ra’s brow. A named royal-solar cobra of that god, not a generic serpent, and not Wadjet as a second unpublished goddess-flatten.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Scarab is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead ties the scarab to Ra’s morning becoming (Khepri speech) — the scarab sacred to Ra in solar rebirth vignettes, not scarab belongs_to egyptian alone and not a missing Khepri mint.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Lotus is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead’s solar birth speech seats the lotus as the flower from which the sun child rises — lotus sacred to Ra in that corpus, not lotus appears_in egyptian alone and not a rebirth represents twin filed here.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Eye of Ra is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead’s solar wrath and protection speech seats the Eye of Ra as Ra’s own fierce eye — sacred to Ra in that corpus, not the wedjat Eye of Horus already walked and not a bare eye dump.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Solar disk is sacred to Ra.
The Book of the Dead’s Ra image-world seats the solar disk as Ra’s own disk crown and boat emblem — sacred to Ra in that corpus, not a generic sun appears_in dump and not Aten Amarna alone.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.