ID: 901001275 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001275	Record Type: Character/Person

	Ra (Egyptian deity)

Note: In ancient Egyptian religion, god of the sun and creator god. He was believed to travel across the sky in his solar bark and, during the night, to make his passage in another bark through the underworld, where, in order to be born again for the new day, he had to vanquish the evil serpent Apopis (Apepi). As one of the creator gods, he rose from the ocean of chaos on the primeval hill, creating himself and then in turn engendering eight other gods. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BCE, he had become a major god in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun.

Display Date: by Fifth Dynasty

Names:

	Ra (Egyptian deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Re (Egyptian deity) (English,U,N)
	Atum-Re (Egyptian deity) (undetermined,U,N)
	Chnum-Re (Egyptian deity) (undetermined,U,N)
	Pra (Egyptian deity) (undetermined,U,N)
	Re-Atum (Egyptian deity) (undetermined,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Egyptian iconography> (P)
		........<Egyptian characters> (P)
		............Ra (Egyptian deity) (I)

Related Iconography:

	associated with .... Amun
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Amun (Egyptian deity)) [901000100]

	parent of .... Maat
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Maat (Egyptian diety)) [901001641]

	has as manifestation .... Ra-Horakhty
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Ra-Horakhty (Egyptian diety)) [901001349]

	counterpart is .... Amun-Re
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Amun-Re (Egyptian deity)) [901002083]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... creator god
	.....(deities, people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	is personification of .... sun (star)
	.....(stars (extraterrestrial bodies), extraterrestrial bodies, natural landscapes, landscapes (environments), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), Built Environment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	associated with .... Sun
	.....(Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy) (TGN)

Sources:

	Ra (Egyptian deity)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 91002566
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Re (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Re," accessed 17 June 2017
	Atum-Re (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Chnum-Re (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Pra (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Re-Atum (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................ Buswell and Lopez, Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (2013)