Ra (god)

Ra / Re
God of the Sun
In one of his many forms, Ra, god of the sun, has the head of a falcon and the sun-disk inside a cobra resting on his head.
Name in hieroglyphs	or or
Major cult center	Heliopolis
Symbol	Sun disk
Consort	Hathor, Sekhmet, Bastet, and Mut (as Amun Ra)
Parents	None, self-created Neith (in some accounts)
Siblings	Apep, Thoth, Sobek, Serket
Offspring	Shu, Tefnut, Bastet, Ma'at, Hathor, sometimes Serket

Ra (/rɑː/;Egyptian: Rꜥ, ) or Re (/reɪ/; Coptic: ⲣⲏ, Rē) is the ancient Egyptian sun god. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become a major god in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun.

In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was merged with the god Horus, as Ra-Horakhty ("Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons"). He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the earth, and the underworld. He was associated with the falcon or hawk. When in the New Kingdom the god Amun rose to prominence he was fused with Ra as Amun-Ra. During the Amarna Period, Akhenaten suppressed the cult of Ra in favor of another solar deity, the Aten, the deified solar disc, but after the death of Akhenaten the cult of Ra was restored.