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Amen Ra

Ra in Genesis. Ra is the means of opposites, thus the control of both + and - is he. Ra is God & the Devil as The light of substance. Ra controls all within creation as he is light and thus temperature, and the knowledge within. Ra is mankind's guiding and/or control spirit. Ra is the controller of All. Ra is the mode. Ra is the Reference in all bible's, as ,"Lord", but not God, one of his spirit's.


Old World Beliefs Of Amon Ra	Amen -Ra	Our Lord.

(Amon, Amun, Ammon, Amoun, & Amen)
Amen's name means "The Hidden One."

Amen was the Patron deity of the city of Thebes from earliest times, and was viewed (along with his consort Amenet) as a primordial creation-deity by the priests of Hermopolis.

Where did the legend about Ra the Sun God start?

Ra - the god of the sun, lord of the sky. Apparently humans and all other creatures came from Ra's tears. Humans do not know. The mythology surrounding Ra, the most important god to the ancient Egyptians, is pretty ancient and Egyptologists believe that it predates the First Dynasty of Egypt about 2900 B.C. or 5000 years ago. The Egyptian gods Ra, Horus and Osiris seem to already have been worshiped by Egyptians long before the First Dynasty because inscriptions and old temples have been uncovered in many Egyptian cities dating from this time, which would indicate that 'Ra-worship' was already ancient by the First Dynasty.

Up to the Middle Kingdom Amen was merely a local god in Thebes; but when the Thebans had established their sovereignty in Egypt, Amen became a prominent deity, and by Dynasty XVIII was termed the King of the Gods. His famous temple, Karnak, is the largest religious structure ever built by man. According to Budge, Amen by Dynasty XIX-XX was thought of as "an invisible creative power which was the source of all life in heaven, and on the earth, and in the great deep, and in the Underworld, and which made itself manifest under the form of Ra." Additionally, Amen appears to have been the protector of any pious devotee in need.

Amen was self-created, according to later traditions; according to the older Theban traditions, Amen was created by Thoth, "(God)", as one of the eight primordial deities of creation,

seven spirits within God or 7 ways he saw himself. (Amen, Amenet, Heq, Heqet, Nun, Naunet, Kau, Kauket).

During the New Kingdom, Amen's consort was Mut, "Mother," who seems to have been the Egyptian equivalent of the "Great Mother" archetype. The two thus formed a pair reminiscent of the God and Goddess of other traditions such as Wicca. Their child was the moon god Khons.
Above text from: Egytpian Pages http://osiris.colorado.edu/LAB/GODS/amen.html
Social Science Data Lab, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://osiris.colorado.edu/LAB/GODS/amen.html

Amun-Re,

Re is sometimes spelled Ra; and Amun-Re is sometimes written as Amen-Ra or Amun-Ra.
A form of the sun god, is sometimes depicted as a sphinx or a human with the head of a hawk. The disk of the sun is a symbol of this god. The word Amun, Amen means "the hidden" or the "hidden ness of divinity", whereas Re means "the sun" or the "divinity in the power of the sun".

The god Amun-Re is a representation of these two ideas: the ever-present invisible power and radiant light of the divine force that sustains life. To trace the origin of Amun-Re, we must go back to the Old Kingdom and Heliopolis, where the god Re first appeared as the primary manifestation of the sun god. Re is depicted with the head of a falcon surmounted by the sun disk during his passage across the sky, and with the head of a ram during his nocturnal voyage in the underworld. This local god rose in prominence to become a national god, resulting in the erection of sun temples throughout the land. In the fourth dynasty, the pharaohs began to consider themselves manifestations of this god. Later, during the Middle Kingdom, when Amun became the most important god, Re was fused with him to become Amun-Re.
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Forms of Amen-Ra

The definiteness of the assertions of this composition suggest that it formed the creed of the worshipers of Amen-Ra, fro every one of them appears to have been made with the express purpose of contradicting the pretensions urged by the priests of other gods, e.g., Aten and Osiris, and an examination of the sentences will show that Amen has made the universe. It is, however, important to note that he is not in any way identified with Osiris in this text. A fact that seems to indicate that the national god of the Resurrection in Egypt, and was ignored by the priests of Amen who composed the contents of Nesi-Khensu's papyrus.

From what has been said as to the importance of Amen-Ra it will be evident that a large number of shrines of this god must have lived chiefly upon the endowments, which the pious Egyptians had provided for gods other than he. We may now consider the various forms in which Amen-Ra is depicted on monuments and papyri. His commonest form is that of a strong-bearded man who appears upon his head lofty double plumes, the various sections of which are colored alternately red and green, or red and blue; round his neck he wears a deep collar necklace, and his close-fitting tunic is supported by elaborately worked shoulder-straps. His arm and wrists are provided with armlets and bracelets, in his right hand is the symbol of life, and his left the scepter. Hanging from his tunic is the tail of some animal; the custom of wearing which by gods and kings was common in Egypt in the earliest times. In this form his title is “Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands.” Instead of the sign of life, he sometimes holds the khepesh war knife, in his right hand. At times he is given the head of a hawk which is surmounted by then solar disk encircled by a serpent as "Amen-Ra-Temu in Thebes" he has the head of a man surmounted by the solar disk encircled by a serpent; before him is the ankh, which is provided with human legs and arms, offering lotus flowers to the god.

Thus he becomes the god both of Heliopolis and Thebes" In many scenes we find Amen-Ra with the head of a ram, and his sacred animals were the goose and the ram, he usually wears the solar disk, plumes, and uraeus at times, however, he wears the disk and urauus or the disk only. In this form he is called "Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands, (same as menes) the "dweller in Thebes, the great god appeareth in the horizon," or "Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands, governor of "Ta-Kenset {Nubia}."

Another form of Amen-Ra is that in which he is represented with the body of the ithyphallic god Amsu, or Min, or Khem i.e., as the personification of the power of generation. In this form he wears either the customary disk and plumes, or the united crowns of the South and North, (see - menes), and has one hand and arm raised to support, see a god archetype which holds above his shoulder; he is called " see Amen-Ra, the bull of his mother," and possesses all the attributes of Fa-a, i.e., the god of the lifted hand. IN one of the examples reproduced by Lanzone Amen-Ra in his ithyphallic form stands by the side of a pylon-shaped building, on the top of which are two trees, an the side of a large lotus flower; the lotus flower represents the rising sun, (dawn and/or Don) which was supposed to issue daily from between two trees.

In another form Amen-Ra has the head of a crocodile, and he wears the crown, which is composed of the solar disk, plumes and horns, and is called the "disposer of the life of Ra and the years of Temu." Finally, the god was sometimes represented in the form of a goose; the animal sacred to him in many parts of Egypt, and all over Nubia, was the ram. In very late dynastic times, especially in the Ptolamaic period, it became customary to make figures of Amen-Ra in bronze in which every important attribute of the god was represented. In these he has the bearded head of a man, the body of a beetle with the wings of a hawk, the legs of a man with the toes and claws of a lion, and is provided with four hands and arms, and four wings, the last named being extended. One hand, which is stretched along the wing, grasps the symbols, the knives, another is raised to support, after the manner of the "god of the lifted hand" a third holds the symbol of generation and fertility; and the fourth is lifted to his head The face of the god is, in reality, that of the solar disk, from which proceed the heads and necks of eight rams. Resting on the disk is a pair of ram's horns, with a disk on each, and stretching upwards are the two characteristics plumes of the god Amen. From the tip of each of these projects a lion-headed uraeus, which ejects moisture from its mouth. This form of the god was a production probably of the period immediately following the XXVIth Dynasty, but some modifications of it are not so old.

The idea, which underlines the figure, is that of representing the pact or company of the gods, of which Amen was the chief, and of showing how every one of the oldest gods of Egypt was contained in him.

Above text from the: Tour Egypt Home Page http://touregypt.net/amenra.htm