Re, Re-Harakhte

"Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon-day sun. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was believed to have ruled as the first pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky. Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus." [Ra, Wikipedia]

Harry Houdini wanted to taste the deeper mysteries of primal Egypt—the black Khem of Re other gods. When Houdini saw the sun set over the great pyramids, it reminded him of the ancient god of Heliopolis—Re-Harakhte, the Horizon-Sun. On the vast stone breast of the Sphinx he faintly discerned the emblem of Re-Harakhte, for whose image the Sphinx was mistaken in a late dynasty. [HPL Pyramids (online text)]

Captain Cartaret found that, beneath the inscrutable shadows of the pyramids, the old gods like Ra still stalked in the old ways. [RB Fane]

Above the opening to the outer passageway of an Egyptian tomb, Peter Barton saw an abhorrent silver figure with the heads of seven principal Egyptian gods, including Ra. [RB Opener]

See also: Amen.

Also spelled as: Ra.

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