"Sun Ra Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, ""cosmic"" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led ""The Arkestra"", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. Born and raised in Alabama, Blount became involved in the Chicago jazz scene during the late 1940s. He soon abandoned his birth name, taking the name Le Sony'r Ra, shortened to Sun Ra (after Ra, the Egyptian God"
"identity was often combined with other gods, forming an interconnection between deities. Ra Ra (; or ""rˤ;"" also transliterated ""rˤw;"" cuneiform: ""ri-a"" or ""ri-ia"") or Re (; , ""Rē"") is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun. In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was merged with the major god Horus into Ra-Horakhty (""Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons""). He was believed to rule in all parts of the"
"Ra Ra (; or ""rˤ;"" also transliterated ""rˤw;"" cuneiform: ""ri-a"" or ""ri-ia"") or Re (; , ""Rē"") is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun. In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was merged with the major god Horus into Ra-Horakhty (""Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons""). He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld. He was synonymous"
"Shamsiel Shamsiel (Aramaic: שִׁמשִׁיאֵל, Greek: Σεμιήλ), also spelled Samsâpêêl, ""Shamshel"", ""Shashiel"" or ""Shamshiel"", was the 16th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name means ""sun of God"", which is fitting since it has been said that Shamsiel taught men the songs of the sun during the days of Jared or Yered. Shamash (the Babylonian sun god) may share some mythological basis with Shamsiel. Shamsiel is said to lead 365 legions of lesser angels in the Zohar and it is said that he was"
"Helios Helios (; ""Hēlios""; Latinized as ""Helius""; in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia (according to Hesiod), also known as Euryphaessa (in ""Homeric Hymn 31"") and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. In the ""Homeric"
"Cleopatra Selene II Cleopatra Selene II (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Σελήνη; late 40 BC – c. 6 BC; the numeration is modern), also known as Cleopatra VIII of Egypt or Cleopatra VIII, was a Ptolemaic Princess and was the only daughter to Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony. She was the fraternal twin of Ptolemaic prince Alexander Helios. Her second name in ancient Greek means moon, also meaning the Titaness-Goddess of the Moon Selene, being the counterpart of her twin brother's second name Helios, meaning sun and the Titan-God of the Sun Helios. Cleopatra was born,"
"Atet The Atet () was the solar barge of the sun god Ra in the mythology of the ancient Egyptians. It was also known as the Mandjet (), the Boat of Millions of Years (), and, during the night, as the Mesektet (). Ra — variously conflated with other solar gods such as Amun and Hathor — was said to travel through the sky on the barge, providing light to the world. Each twelfth of his journey formed one of the twelve Egyptian hours of the day, each overseen by a protective deity. Ra then rode the Atet through the"
"as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as ""The Contendings of Horus and Seth"". In this tale, it was said that Set, the patron of Upper Egypt, and Horus, the patron of Lower Egypt, had battled for Egypt brutally, with neither side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus. As Horus was the ultimate victor he became known as ""ḥr.w wr"" ""Horus the Great"", but more usually translated ""Horus the Elder"". In the struggle, Set had lost a testicle, and Horus's eye was gouged out. Horus represented the eclipsing binary Algol in the Calendar of"
"are viewed in person, rather than merely in photographs. Egyptologists have vocalized the word variously as Aten, Aton, Atonu, and Itn. Aten Aten (also Aton, ) is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of the god Ra. The deified Aten is the focus of the monotheistic religion of Atenism established by Amenhotep IV, who later took the name Akhenaten (died ca. 1335 BCE) in worship and recognition of Aten. In his poem ""Great Hymn to the Aten"", Akhenaten praises Aten as the creator, giver of life, and nurturing spirit of the world. Aten"
"sun god; without the Atenist period, it would barely have figured in Egyptian history. Although there are indications that it was becoming slightly more important during the eighteenth dynasty, notably Amenhotep III's naming of his royal barge as ""Spirit of the Aten"", it was Amenhotep IV who introduced the Atenist revolution in a series of steps culminating in the official installment of the Aten as Egypt's sole god. Although each line of kings prior to the reign of Akhenaten had previously adopted one deity as the royal patron and supreme state god, there had never been an attempt to exclude"
"of the sea. He can take the form of all animals of the zodiac. Some lists, cited by Hyginus, of the names of horses that pulled Helios' chariot, are as follows. Helios Helios (; ""Hēlios""; Latinized as ""Helius""; in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Hyperion and the Titaness Theia (according to Hesiod), also known as Euryphaessa (in ""Homeric Hymn 31"") and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. Helios was described as a handsome young man crowned with the shining aureole"
"Aten Aten (also Aton, ) is the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of the god Ra. The deified Aten is the focus of the monotheistic religion of Atenism established by Amenhotep IV, who later took the name Akhenaten (died ca. 1335 BCE) in worship and recognition of Aten. In his poem ""Great Hymn to the Aten"", Akhenaten praises Aten as the creator, giver of life, and nurturing spirit of the world. Aten does not have a Creation Myth or family but is mentioned in the Book of the Dead. The worship of Aten"
"earliest-known monotheistic head of state, Akhenaten changed the polytheistic religion of Egypt to a monotheistic one, Atenism of the solar-disk and is the first recorded state monotheism. All other deities were replaced by the Aten, including Amun-Ra, the reigning sun god of Akhenaten's own region. Unlike other deities, the Aten did not have multiple forms. His only image was a disk—a symbol of the sun. Soon after Akhenaten's death, worship of the traditional deities was reestablished by the religious leaders (Ay the High-Priest of Amen-Ra, mentor of Tutankhaten/Tutankhamen) who had adopted the Aten during the reign of Akhenaten. In Aztec"
"Harpocrates Harpocrates () was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus, who represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. Harpocrates's name was a Hellenization of the Egyptian ""Har-pa-khered"" or ""Heru-pa-khered"", meaning ""Horus the Child"". In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris. Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by ""interpretatio graeca"", identified with Typhon or Chaos),"
"a benefactor and primary love interest of the protagonist, Lute Hende. Shamsiel Shamsiel (Aramaic: שִׁמשִׁיאֵל, Greek: Σεμιήλ), also spelled Samsâpêêl, ""Shamshel"", ""Shashiel"" or ""Shamshiel"", was the 16th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name means ""sun of God"", which is fitting since it has been said that Shamsiel taught men the songs of the sun during the days of Jared or Yered. Shamash (the Babylonian sun god) may share some mythological basis with Shamsiel. Shamsiel is said to lead 365 legions of lesser"
"in Egypt, there was a religion that worshipped the sun directly, and was among the first monotheistic religions: Atenism. Sun worship was prevalent in ancient Egyptian religion. The earliest deities associated with the sun are all goddesses: Wadjet, Sekhmet, Hathor, Nut, Bast, Bat, and Menhit. First Hathor, and then Isis, give birth to and nurse Horus and Ra. Hathor the horned-cow is one of the 12 daughters of Ra, gifted with joy and is a wet-nurse to Horus. From at least the 4th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, the sun was worshipped as the deity Re (pronounced probably as Riya, meaning"
"seated mother on south wall. Khuenre Khuenre (Khuenra) was a Prince of ancient Egypt of the 4th dynasty, named after the Sun god Ra. He was a son of Pharaoh Menkaure and his sister, Queen Khamerernebty II. He was a grandson of Khafra and Khamerernebty I and great-grandson of Khufu, king who built the Great Pyramid of Giza. He was a secretary and ""sole companion of his father"". He was the eldest son of his parents, but he was not Menkaure’s successor. This was Shepseskaf. Khuenre is buried in Menkaure’s cemetery (MQ 1). He is depicted as a young boy"
"Khepri Khepri (Egyptian: ""ḫprj,"" also transliterated Khepera, Kheper, Khepra, Chepri) is a god in ancient Egyptian religion who represents the rising or morning sun. By extension, he can also represent creation and the renewal of life. Khepri ""ḫprj"" is derived from Egyptian language verb ""ḫpr,"" meaning ""develop"", ""come into being"", or ""create"". The god was connected with the scarab beetle (""ḫprr"" in Egyptian), because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky. Khepri was thus a solar deity. Young dung"
"Sun (hieroglyph) The Ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the ""sun-disc""; it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra. In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the ""sun hieroglyph"" is used on the ""Palermo Piece""-(obverse) of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific ""day-events"", ...""day of ..."" A few of the King Year-Register's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows): N11:N11:N5 ! V20:V20:Z2ss !! <br> The Luwian language hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number"
"the sun god Malakbel. ""Baalshamin"" and ""Ba'al Šamem"" are the most frequently used terms, as a Phoenician god, respectively. Other variations which are seen less frequently in modern sources include: Ba'al Shamin, Ba'al Samin, Ba'al-Shamem, Ba'al Shamim, Baal Shamem, Ba'alsamem, Baal Shamin, Baal-Samin, Beelsamen, Ba'alsamin, Baal-Samen, Baal-Shamen, Baalsamin, Baalsamen, Baal-shamim, Ba'alshamin, Baal-Samim, Baal-Samem, Baalsamem, Baalsamim, Baalshamem, Beelsamin, Beel-Samen, Beelshamen, Baal-Shamayim, Ba'alsamen, Beel-Samin, Baalshamim, Baalshamen. This name was originally a title of Baal Hadad, in the 2nd millennium BC, but came to designate a distinct god circa 1000 BC. The earliest known mention of this god or title is in a"
"those of the Greeks and the Babylonians. In ancient Greece, the two great luminaries the Sun and the Moon were called ""Helios"" and ""Selene""; the farthest planet (Saturn) was called ""Phainon"", the shiner; followed by ""Phaethon"" (Jupiter), ""bright""; the red planet (Mars) was known as ""Pyroeis"", the ""fiery""; the brightest (Venus) was known as ""Phosphoros"", the light bringer; and the fleeting final planet (Mercury) was called ""Stilbon"", the gleamer. The Greeks also made each planet sacred to one among their pantheon of gods, the Olympians: Helios and Selene were the names of both planets and gods; Phainon was sacred to"
"Elagabalus (deity) Elagabalus , Aelagabalus, or Heliogabalus is a Syro-Roman sun god. Although there were many variations of the name, the god was consistently referred to as Elagabalus in Roman coins and inscriptions from AD 218 on, during the reign of emperor Elagabalus. Elagabalus was initially venerated at Emesa in Syria. The name is the Latinised form of the Semitic ""Ilāh hag-Gabal"", which derives from Ilāh ""god"" and ""gabal"" ""mountain"" (compare ""jabal""), resulting in ""the God of the Mountain"", the Emesene manifestation of the deity. The cult of the deity spread to other parts of the Roman Empire in the"
"was ""Ra-Horus, who rejoices in the horizon in his name of the light which is in the sun disc"". (That is the title of the god as it appears on numerous stelae, placed to mark the boundaries of Akhenaten's new capital at Akhetaten.) However, in the ninth year of his reign Akhenaten declared a more radical version of his new religion by declaring Aten not merely the supreme god but the only god, and Akhenaten was the son of Aten was the only intermediary between the Aten and his people. He ordered the defacing of Amun's temples throughout Egypt. Key"
"the sun God, Elagabalus, represented by a large, dark rock called a baetyl, by which name he is known to historians (his name is sometimes written ""Heliogabalus""). He was proclaimed emperor by the troops of Emesa, his hometown, who were instigated to do so by Elagabalus's grandmother, Julia Maesa. She spread a rumor that Elagabalus was the secret son of Caracalla. This revolt spread to the entire Syrian army (which, at the time, was swollen with troops raised by the Emperor Caracalla, and not fully loyal to Macrinus), and eventually they were to win the short struggle that followed by"
"Imhotep Imhotep (; Egyptian: ""ỉỉ-m-ḥtp"" ""*jā-im-ḥātap"", in Unicode hieroglyphs: 𓇍𓅓𓊵:𓏏*𓊪, ""the one who comes in peace""; fl. late 27th century BC) was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser, probable architect of the step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and deified. Today, outside the Egyptological community, he is referred to as a polymath, poet, judge, engineer, magician, scribe, astronomer, astrologer, and especially a physician; indeed, some have considered Imhotep alongside Hippocrates and"
"straight to the deity on top of the serekh. In most cases it was the falcon of the god Horus. This is based on the Egyptian tradition and belief that a living king was commonly the herald and earthly representative of Horus. A good example is the name of 2nd Dynasty king Raneb. His name was written with the sign of the sun (""Râ"") and the sign of a basket (""néb""). Altogether, the name reads ""Lord of the sun of Horus"", thus integrating Horus as the royal patron into the king's name. Scholars point to the symbolic and expressive strength"
"so when he floated in a boat down the Nile covered only with fishnets. Until his reign, an Egyptian king was thought to a worldly incarnation of Horus, obtaining total deification exclusively in death. Snefru was the first king so proclaim himself to be the embodiment of the Sun of god, Ra. Khufu, pursuing his father's footsteps, took the name of Son of the Sun God. Egypt, in general, was ruled by two schools of thought; legal authority and traditional authority. Legal authority constituted the king governing, not the people directly, but viziers and nomarches, all posted at different positions."
"they may have been different locations. The Protestant reformer John Calvin took the view that Sinai and Horeb were the same mountain, with the eastern side of the mountain being called Sinai and the western side being called Horeb. Abraham Ibn Ezra suggested that there was one mountain, ""only it had two tops, which bore these different names"". Horeb is thought to mean ""glowing""/""heat"", which seems to be a reference to the Sun, while Sinai may have derived from the name of Sin, the Sumerian deity of the Moon, and thus Sinai and Horeb would be the mountains of the"
"the sun god each dawn. Hathor's name, ""ḥwt-ḥrw"" or ""ḥwt-ḥr"", may allude to this aspect of her character. The name is typically translated ""house of Horus"", referring to the falcon god Horus who, among other things, represented the sky or the sun, although it can also be rendered as ""my house is the sky"". The ""house"" may be the sky in which Horus lives or the goddess's womb, from which he, as a sun god, is born each day. Hathor was herself a solar deity, a feminine counterpart to sun gods like Horus and Ra, and she was a member"
"the Aten became the central god of Egyptian state religion, and Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten to reflect his close link with the new supreme deity. The full title of Akhenaten's god was ""Ra-Horakhty who rejoices in the horizon, in his Name as the Light which is in the sun disc."" (This is the title of the god as it appears on the numerous stelae placed to mark the boundaries of Akhenaten's new capital at Akhetaten, modern Amarna.) This lengthy name was often shortened to ""Ra-Horus-Aten"" or just ""Aten"" in many texts, but the god of Akhenaten raised"
"as a byname for the sun-god, whence come common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his car (""chariot"") as a metaphor for the sun but, in particular instances in myth, Apollo and Helios are distinct. The sun-god, the son of Hyperion, with his sun chariot, though often called ""Phoebus"" (""shining"") is not called ""Apollo"" except in purposeful non-traditional identifications. Despite these identifications, Apollo was never actually described by the Greek poets driving the chariot of the sun, although it was common practice among Latin poets. Therefore, Helios is still known as the ""sun god"" – the one who"
"Tiwaz (Luwian deity) Tiwaz (Stem: Tiwad-) was the Luwian Sun-god. He was among the most important gods of the Luwians. The name of the Proto-Anatolian Sun god can be reconstructed as ""*Diuod-"", which derives from the Proto-Indo-European word ""*dei-"" (""shine"", ""glow""). This name is cognate with the Greek Zeus, Latin Jupiter, and Norse Tyr. While Tiwaz (and the related Palaic god Tiyaz) retained a promenant role in the pantheon, the Hittite cognate deity, was largely eclipsed by the Sun goddess of Arinna, becoming a god of the day, especially the day of death. In Luwian cuneiform of the Bronze Age,"
"period and various locations throughout ancient Egypt. Matet boat In Egyptian mythology the Matet Boat was the first of two boats traveled in by Ra, the sun god as he traveled the sky daily with the sun on his head. During the period between dawn and noon, Ra occupies the Matet (growing stronger) boat. During the period between noon and dusk Ra travels in the Sektet (growing weaker) boat. Ra travels the underworld during the night where he encounters and battles many foes. Matet and Sektet seem to have many different spellings and Ra himself is often mixed with another"