The Deity Ra-Hr-Axty at Memphis | ||
| Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality | ||
| Article 3, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 31-53 PDF (2.05 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2022.121252.1299 | ||
| Author | ||
| Noha Hafez* | ||
| Tourism Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Re-Horakhty is an integrated deity that combines both gods Horus and Re. In Egyptian mythology, he was more of a name or a form than a combined god. Horus was the god of the sky and Re was the sun god. Therefore, Re-Horakhty was considered to be the god of the rising sun. This integrating form of the two gods Horus and Re began to appear in about 2445 B.C in the Sun Temple which was built by Nj-wsr-Ra. He was often depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the sun-disk adorned with the uraeus on his headdress. Sometimes he was depicted as a ram-headed god wearing the sun disk upon his head. Both deities Re and Horus occasionally shared the same iconography. Re-Horakhty was the king of the deities in Horemheb’s tomb. He was depicted in the Book of the Dead of the 3rd Intermediate period. He was worshipped in many temples such as: Wadi es-Sebou, Derr and Abu-Simbel. This research aims to shed light on god Re-Horakhty at the region of Memphis, his role and his relations with the other deities at Memphis. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Re; Horus; Re-Horakhty; Memphis; Sun-disk | ||
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