Did Ancient Egypt believe in Ra like Christians believe in Jehovah?

Question

Or was Ra or Atum more a Symbol of Creation or the Light/Sun?

Were they faithful or spiritual?

Alost like some Xtians believe Jesus was Gods form on earth or Krishna in Hinduism etc.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, the ancient Egyptian concept of God was that all Gods were aspects of a single Oneness; therefore, Ra's full name to them would be God-as-Ra. Ra was the aspect of God connected to the generative power of the Sun.

I suggest that you might want to ask a Kemeticist (someone who practices a reconstruction of the religion of ancient Egypt). I've included some links below.

Were they faithful? Oh, definitely: religion was very important to the ancient Egyptians. Were they spiritual? Deeply. I recommend that you research some of their original writings. The poetry and power of them can still speak to us across the centuries.

Answer 2

Hi

The historical account is that egyptian god Ra is the egyptian sun god. Semilar to the egyptians, the romans also have god that was called as "sun god" - the light of the world "sun of justice" which was celebrated December 25 as its birthday.

In christianity, followers believe in God. But I would like to make also this clear that the popularly known word "jehovah" is not the correct name of the God Father. In the hebrew text it was originally written in four letters YHWH or YHVH and was called as Tetragrammaton. The exact pronunciation was lost and none of our time know the exact pronunciation, for reason of fear and Jews regarded as it as a devine name and too sacred to be uttered. Hebrew text does not have vowels unlike the English text to form a pronunciation. Jehovah was just an invention, where the vowels was just added in 14th century by the translators and Masoretes. By which, the word Jehovah was unknown to both christians and jews in the early christianity, and addition to that also is the english letter "J" does not have an ancient hebrew equivalent text to form its sound.


There are also difference between the Ra and the christian God, and that Ra was just created by man. God created man, and God was a creator and was not created.



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Answer 3

From what I can tell from my own research, Atum was the All. The All is One. Ancient Egypt was the birthplace of Hermeticism, after all. I think they were more spiritual rather than faithful. If you read The Hermetica and even the Papyri of Ani (not the Budge translation!) you can see how the stories et al are really just elaborate metaphors to explain the workings of the natural universe. It was like scientific minds had to find a way to explain science to the layman. So that's how they were doing it. But the metaphors are so damn obvious. It's no wonder that many Hermetic principles later became the basis for physics.

Answer 4

“WHO is Jehovah?” That question was posed 3,500 years ago by proud Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Defiance apparently moved him to add: “I do not know Jehovah at all.” Two men then standing before Pharaoh knew who Jehovah was. They were the fleshly brothers Moses and Aaron, of Israel’s tribe of Levi. Jehovah had sent them to demand that Egypt’s ruler send the Israelites into the wilderness to hold a religious festival.—Exodus 5:1, 2.

Pharaoh wanted no answer to his question. Under his authority, priests promoted the worship of hundreds of false deities. Why, Pharaoh himself was considered a god! According to Egyptian mythology, he was the son of the sun-god Ra and an incarnation of the falcon-headed deity Horus. Pharaoh was addressed using such titles as “the mighty god” and “the eternal.” So it was not surprising that he would scornfully ask: “Who is Jehovah, so that I should obey his voice?”

Moses and Aaron did not need to answer that question. Pharaoh knew that Jehovah was the God worshiped by the Israelites, then suffering in Egyptian bondage.

So, yes they believe that Amon-Ra exists and gave birth to them.

Answer 5

you gotta pointed beter, because christians does not really believe on Je----va, they believe in some kind of jesus idol, that is really no much but a human being,

so like that were the egyptians, (by the way one great god of egypt was the lamb, and so the cristians say jesus was a lamb, coincidence, i dont think so), the same, RA, was a man who become an idol, and after his death they were much legends about him and that turn him into a god.

Answer 6

i think thats more of a history question.
but as far as i know they belived Ra was as real as they were and the Pharoh was his form here on earth.

Answer 7

It's interesting that Shang Ti (chinese God) is also considered to be the same God of the Hebrews because of their animal sacrifices.