When his wrath finally cools, nothing may be left but ash.Ĭlassification: Deity, Egyptian God, God of the Sun, Pantheon Leader This time, his burning gaze is set on the other Gods. However, he ended her bloody feeding before she consumed all mankind. In that rare moment of anger, Ra sent his daughter, Hathor, in the form of a lion, to devour the people. Light can heal, but light can also burn, and the great protector is showing signs of wrath not seen since mankind’s insolence. Isis kept her word and Ra was healed, though the cost may have been too high. At first, he refused, for knowledge of his True Name would give Isis unparalleled power over him, but as the pain mounted, Ra was forced to relent. Isis promised to heal Ra if he revealed to her his True Name. When he stepped on it, the serpent’s venomous bite poisoned him. His own granddaughter, Isis, cleverly poisoned him by secretly summoning a viper under his feet. His descendants have grown in power and prominence and seek to replace him as the figure of authority. For those in the scorched South, Ra was the first God, creator of earth and sky and father to all other Gods.īut Ra’s time is fading like a twilight sky. Each day he sails across the sky in a golden ship, and each night traverses the underworld, bringing light and warmth to the dead beneath the horizon.
Ra is a guardian, the keeper of Ma’at - order and truth, and master of the sun. After taking precautions to stop Apophis's threat, Ra retired to the Duat, becoming a senile god in the past centuries, however he returned to his former self after being hosted by Zia to battle once again against the Chaos Serpent. By creating the concept of order, or Ma'at, opposing to Apophis and Chaos(Isfet), he made possible for others gods to be born as well, and then he became their first pharaoh and the pillar of their power.
Ra is the personification of the Sun and the first egyptian god born from the Sea of Chaos.