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Ra
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Ra

In Egyptian mythology, the sun god, worshipped at Heliopolis, northeast of Cairo. He was believed to travel across the sky daily in a boat, returning nightly through the underworld to the east in another boat.

By the 4th dynasty the king was declared to be ‘son of Ra’, which became one of the royal titles, Ra becoming the supreme deity.
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