Egyptian sun

This representation of the Egyptian sun god shows the rays with stylized hands. The solar disk has a symbolic feather and the Egyptian symbol of the ankh appears at the bottom. Aten or Aton represented both the spirit or god of the sun and the actual solar disk. The god Ra (or Re) was thought to dwell in the disk of the sun. For a time, under the Pharaoh Akhenaton, the sun god reigned supreme. This king built a city named for himself, now el-Amarna.

Ancient Egyptian sun god Aten

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The symbol of Aten on the cover of ‘A Son of God’, by Savitri Devi, 1946

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God Aton is a great disk of the sun in early Egypt; He also symbolized the life and energy of Egypt because of the immense rejuvenating power of the sun

Egyptian symbol of Sun God, Ra.

Illustration of ancient Egyptian sun god.

The one Symbol of the Religion of the Disk — the Sun, with downward rays ending in hands — appeared repeatedly in the pictures and on the reliefs. But it was there only to remind the worshipper that none but the unseen Power within the Sun, the Force symbolised by those “hands”, was worthy of adoration, and to tell him that no form, however perfect, could ever represent It. ~ Savitri Devi, ‘Son of the Sun’, 1946

Ra was the king of the deities and the father of all creation. He was the patron of the sun, heaven, kingship, power, and light. He was not only the deity who governed the actions of the sun, he could also be the physical sun itself, as well as the day. It was said he was born each morning in the East, and died each night in the West. In the night he travelled through the underworld. This is why the west side of the Nile was known as the land of the dead. He had the head of a Falcon, the…

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