From my diary: Egyptian Solar Gods

 

 

 The official Egyptians religion give primacy to the " Solar god's ".The sun god Re may be also called as Re - Harakhty or Re - Atum.

 

 

   

Concept of god   

   

The oldest Egyptians concept of god use a falcon or hawk,he is protector of pharaons.

                                   

                               Falcon god

Who is Falcon God ? 

In the Egyptian mythology many deities are represented as falcons. One of them is god Horus,who is several gods in one.He is a solar god and regins over the sky.    

 

                                             Horus as multiple God

 

 

  He presented under the form of falcon next gods :

 

 

Harakhty,Harmakhis,

Haroeris,Hurun.

  

 

 

After the land  unification under the pharaons of Hiearkonpolis the falcon god of this town becomes the royal god

 

                                                                                  

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Falcon is the protector of the pharaon and main dynastic god who is considered to be the incarnation of god Horus on earth.

 

 

Horus initially  the dominant  falcon god gliding across the distant sky is ever more identified as the son of Osiris

and

Isis

The symbiosis of king and falcon sculpturally introduced in the images of Khafre.The most impresive representations of a tutelary god

Pharaoh chooses a set names on his accession to the thron. 

• The Horus name.It present the pharaoh as the incarnation of the falcon god Horus.
• The Nebti name.It places pharaoh under the protection of the two tutelary goddesses of Egypt Nekhbet the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt and Wadjit the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt.
• The Golden Horus name.Introduced Horus sitting on the sign for gold,nub this name reaffirms the unchangeable divine and sublime nature of the body of Horus.Pharaoh is the living incarnation of the Horus
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  The Throne name
  He of the sedge and bee,"the sedge being the emblem of the North and the bee that of the South.This is pharaoh's first name which he recives when he is enthroned.It affirms his sovereignty over the two kingdoms that make up the land Upper and Lower Egypt.Pharaoh name is written in cartouche resembling an elongated loop of rope closed by a knot symbolizing  
  Pharaoh's sovereignty
  
  

  

  • The Birth name
  • The name is the name of Son of Re.It is also
  • inscribed in cartouche and confirms that Pharaoh is the son of the sun god and of direct solar origin
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The gods representations and hieroglyphic forms of their names provide types of informations:

• the main iconographic features by which the deity can be recognized   

• the  character and function of the deity and main places of worship                             

                                 RE / RA

   

   
  
  

             

  

  The local Theban god Amun

The name of the sun god.He was a creative god in Heliopolis.Ra presides over the great Ennead constituted of nine fudamental gods:

Tefenet and Shu,Nut and Geb,Isis and Osiris,Seth and Nephthys,and Horus the elder.God Ra is very important in the Egyptian mythology in the IV th Dynasty the pharaohs add a fifth name to their royal titulary: the Birth name or " Son of Ra".Representation a man and sometimes with a head of a falcon wearing a solar disc on his head.Many myths describe Ra and his daily trips across the sky.Ra is also combined with many anothers deities : Re-Atum,Amun-Re,etc...

 

From my diary : The Source of Isis

 

 Isis is one of the earliest and most important goddess in ancient Egypt. She was regarded as the feminine counterpart to Osiris, a role she probably occupied before the dawn of dynastic Egypt.She is the daughter of Geb the earth and Nut the sky,wife and sister of god Osiris.

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 No other Egyptian deity has stood the test of time as well as Isis.Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of medicine. She was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris.                                                                   

Isis is portrayed as a woman with a throne on her head which is a hieroglyphic  sign used to write her name.Over the centuries she has assumed the many feminine goddesses.

Isis carries a many attributes and their iconography belonging to Hathor,Neith,Satis,Sakhmet,Opet,Serket or Renenutet.
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She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wing spread to protect the deceased.

Isis is universal goddess with many roles,who acts in all circumstances in the world of the living as well as in the other world.

 

The egyptian Isis is protector of children and 
woman ,great magician, protector of the mymmy

of the deceased.

She is a mother of sun god Horus.

She was worshipped above all in Philae.As a god's mother, divine adoratrice,lady of the sky, the her cult together with Osiris spread the furthest in the late period.

  

 

Powerful Tutelary

Isis belonged to the Heliopolitan ennead she is guardian and magician.Powerful tutelary " great in magic" and " mother goddess".

In the legend of Osiris,Isis are the main actors in which  concerns Seth murder of Osiris.Isis with her sister Nephthys to look for all the disembered pieces that have been strewn across Egypt. She ask god Anubis to help her to create the Osiris and in  same time she made the first  mummy.

Under the Ptolemaic and Roman dynasties Isis became the universal goddess and her cult spread far beyond Egypt's.

From my diary : Pharaoh divine incarnation

             

 The Egyptian pharaon the " Son of Re". 

    "Born as Horus living in the horizon sits on the 

          throne of Horus of the living ". 
( Pyramid Text )

The word pharaon is derived from the
 words " per aa " meaning 'great house '.The pharaoh was seen as a divine incarnation.He was son of Ra , the son god and would ultimately rejoin his divine parent in the sky.His role on earth was to intercede on behalf of the country with his god. Pharaoh life was encased in a set of ritual practices and religious ceremonies.
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The pharaoh was a high priest above all others and all strands of Egyptian life ultimately came together in the person of tne king.He also had a decisive secular role in his person the divine and the mortal came together.

 

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   Ideology of royal power  

 

Horus initially  the dominant  falcon god gliding across the distant sky is ever more identified as the son of Osiris

and

Isis

   

      Pharaoh Scorpion

Narmer's Tablet

In the Predinastic period the first known to us  pharaoh called Scorpion and Narmer (Menes) were closely  linked to  Horus.Lived in 3000 B.C.The strenght of the belief that pharaoh united and so recreated the kingdom is shown on the Narmer's Tablet.
 

The symbiosis of king and falcon sculpturally introduced in the images of Khafre.The most impresive representations of a tutelary god.


Horus as falcon spreading his wings around the head of the king protecting him.The pharaoh is personifications of the gods themselves.

                                  Royal titulary

          Pharaoh chooses a set names on his accession to the throne. 

• The Horus name.It present the pharaoh as the incarnation of the falcon god Horus.
• The Nebti name.It places pharaoh under the protection of the two tutelary goddesses of Egypt Nekhbet the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt and Wadjit the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt.
• The Golden Horus name.Introduced Horus sitting on the sign for gold,nub this name reaffirms the unchangeable divine and sublime nature of the body of Horus.Pharaoh is the living incarnation of the Horus.                          

From my diary : about Egyptian Mythology and Religion

Egyptian religion was polytheistic.The Egyptian gods can be understood in terms their cults and in terms of their cosmic dimensions.Most gods had cult places in many Egyptian temples.In most temples one god was linked with other gods.The temple was the resting place of the gods imagined as the image of the cosmos with the god's house.Creations of the Gods is the main topics of Egyptian theology. Several concepts are known tied to a town: Memphis, Heliopolis, Hermopolis. Cosmogony is a mythic tale describing the creations of the world and the settling of the natural elements of the universe. Besides the major cosmological systems there were also minor cosmogonies known to us from quotations to text they syncretized other known systems of the universal Egyptian gods.

 

Image Of Heaven

Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

In Egyptian mythology Osiris is believed to the eldest offspring of Geb egyptian god of earth and Nut egyptian sky goddess. He was the husband of Isis, who is the Egyptian goddess of fertility and mother hood and was worshiped as the ideal mother by ancient Egyptians. Osiris was also the father of Horus.Osiris was one of the most important deities of ancient egypt. 
 

 

Universal Gods

 

Some Egyptian gods were universal in the sense that there was no particular place with which they were connected, some of the universal gods started as local deities like god Anubis.

 

God Ptah at the begining he is the patron of goldsmith sculptors and  craftsman, he is considered as the inventor of tehnical skills.He becomes the creative god of Memphis. 

 

 

Osiris is the god of the dead in the Egyptian mythology.He also represents the yearly revival of vegetation.Egyptians identify himselfs with this god. In the afterworld and to enter to his kingdom because he give a hope of eternal life.

 

 

  

Goddess Isis is wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus.

She is universal goddess with many roles who acts in all circumstances  in the world of the living as well as in the other world.She belongs to the great Enead of Heliopolis. She is the daughter of Geb and Nut.