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Re or Ra (based on the attested rebuilding of the Copte by Rīʕu) is the god of the solar disk in the Egyptian Mythologie. He becomes the principal divinity under the Ancient Empire. He is often represented with a head of falcon on which the solar disk protected by the drawn up cobra is posed. Compared to Atoum, the god of Héliopolis, he is the creator of the universe.
Cosmogony
According to mythology, following a long reign exerted directly on its creation and the men, it becomes old and faced their rebellion. His/her daughter Tefnout represses them, but from now on vulnerable it decides to gain the sky. Ila recalls it to him and it then transforms into the celestial cow Hathor becoming the vault of heaven intended to carry in its center the solar boat and its divine procession from now on symbolized by stars. Re travels each day through the sky on board its crowned boat (course of the Sun), and each night through underground worlds (hells). Each sunrise was a victory gained by Re over the “forces of darkness”. Perhaps this is there the explanation brought by the Egyptians to the phenomena of eclipses of the Sun, which would be as many temporary defeats of the god on darkness.
The “forces of darkness” are represented by the snake Apophis, which seeks each night to destabilize the solar boat and to swallow the world to plunge it in darkness. Re is shouldered in its combat by Seth, warlike divinity particularly feared. It is one of the rare myths where Seth has a positive role, and the Pharaons who will take it as protective god will not have of cease to point out it.
Pharaon, after his death, takes seat on the Re boat to join the kingdom of deaths.
The king Khéphren is the first to include the Nom of Its-Re (“the Re son”) in his titulature, which precedes the name by birth of the Pharaon registered in a cartridge. The purpose of he is charnellement to attach the Pharaon to the cosmic power of the universe, Re.
The six king-gods are in the order:
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