This name was used only for the noon sun, when it was at the zenith. The setting sun was a symbol of the passage of the humans from birth up to death. This version or alter-ego was named as Khepri. Egyptians believed that the dead were reborn again in the after-life each day with the rising sun. The rising sun was a symbol of birth and creation. Ra was also known by different names representing the various positions of the sun in the sky. The sun disk on the head of this Sun God had a cobra around it. At the end of the day, he was believed to be traveling in another boat through the Underworld. Ra is also shown in a boat called the ‘Barque of Ages’, sailing across the sky. The hawk head represents the sun’s ‘flight’ across the horizon. The Egyptians thought of him as the conqueror of evil and lies by bringing light to this world and also as a symbol of good and truth. He was largely worshiped in Heliopolis (Greek for city of the sun), which was the cult place in ancient Egypt. He is depicted as a man’s body with the head of a hawk with an ankh and a scepter in his hands. It was widely believed that Ra was the first being and all other beings were born later or were his progeny. Ra, the Sun God, symbolized the creation of every living soul.
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