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Egptian Religion: The Sun God

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Did you know that the Egptians believe I a god that provides growth, warmth and sunlight?
That would be Ra (The Sun God as most know him as.).
I am going to tell you about him.
It was the naturalest thingy that the Egyptians would believe him to be God, as well as part of him being represented in every other god. The Egyptians believed that every god should illustrate some aspect of him or her.
Ra was usually described in human form. He had a sun disc on his head and it was surrounded by a sacred snake. Ra was said to be a man with the head of a beetle and also a human man with the head of a ram. The Egyptians also shown Ra in full species form such as a serpent, bird, bull, lion, cat, beetle, another bird and others. His main symbol was

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