Ra was a Greater Power and leader of the Pharaonic pantheon, who brought forth the Ennead and raised many of the other Pharaonic powers to divinity.[1] He was symbolised in Egyptian and Mulhorandi culture as a human with the head of a falcon.[2] In the Mulhorandi interpretation of the pantheon, his personality and sphere were combined with those of Horus and worshipped as Horus-Re, who was sometimes interpreted as Ra's son.[3]
Ra was known as the original Pharaonic deity, who brought life to the rest of his extended family, the Ennead. He was one of the first to understand the power of the Rule of Threes, and created eight other gods to rule with him for a three-threes structure. Rumours claimed that Ptah was the original head of the pantheon, or that another group called the Eight Fathers and Mothers predate even him, but the truth of this was lost to time.[1]
Ra ruled the First Realm of Heliopolis, Thekele-Re, where he brought light to the world with his solar barge Manjet. He guided the pharaohs of Mulhorand, Egypt and countless other civilisations, and protected them from the world-destroyer serpent Apophis. The chant went that as Apophis stirred once again, Ra was preparing to move onto "bigger and better things", and had his second-in-command Osiris lined up to take over the pantheon.[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Colin McComb (October 1996). On Hallowed Ground. Edited by Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 84. ISBN 0-7869-0430-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Colin McComb (October 1996). On Hallowed Ground. Edited by Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 86. ISBN 0-7869-0430-5.
- ↑ Eric L. Boyd, Erik Mona (May 2002). Faiths and Pantheons. Edited by Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 143. ISBN 0-7869-2759-3.