Ra and Anubis
Originally on my deviantart: http://www.deviantart.com/notifications/#view=feedback
A character design exercise I did a few days ago, relying completely on thumbnails!
This is Project Pantheon, a story featuring gods, godesses and monsters in a science fantasy setting… and yes Ra is posed like Magician’s red… because reasons.
Basically the story follows the adventures of Mars and Athena trying to figure what happened after an event called “The Omni Wars”, where gods and godesses tore the galaxy apart and had to flee the galaxy. As they did, the pantheons sooned carved out the universe for their own, and it’s up to Mars and Athena to help try and heal the rift between pantheons.
The Lord of the Horizon
He’s been hanging around. Has anyone else gotten the impression Ra likes listening to music in Spanish? Because he forced me to play it on repeat (Esp. La Temperatura by Maluma). Anyway it seemed fitting for Ra to have a newspaper and coffee, plus I loved this picture of Heru with them. Also crown bc King of the gods? And dad mug because World’s Best Dad?
Enjoy!
Mythology Daily ⊱ Egyptian WednesdayRa
❞ From very early times Ra was a sun god. He took on many of the attributes and even the names of other gods as Egyptian myths evolved. A good example of this is the god Ra and Amun merging to become Amun-Ra or Ra and Horus combining to become Ra-Harakhte. Since Ra was a god of great antiquity, there are far to many stories connected with him to relate them all. I will relate some that I find interesting, including the legend of Ra and Hathor. He is often pictured as a hawk or as a hawk headed man with a solar disk encircled by a uraeus on his head. He is often pictured wearing the double crown of upper and lower Egypt. One legend states that each day, Ra was born and began a journey across the sky. Ra was believed to travel in the Manjet-boat. or the ‘Barque of Millions of Years’. He was joined on this daily journey by a crew of many gods . The Manjet-boat would sail through the twelve provinces, representing the twelve hours of daylight. At the end of each day Ra was thought to die and embarked on his night voyage. For this journey he was called Auf, which means ‘corpse’. Ra sailed in a boat called the Mesektet-boat or night-barque on his journey through the twelve hours of darkness. It was not always smooth sailing on these ships. During the day Ra had to defeat his chief enemy, a serpent or snake named Apep. A great battle was faught between Ra and Apep, and Ra was usually victorious, however on stormy days or during an eclipse the Egyptians believed that Apep had been victorious and swallowed the sun. Because no wind blows in the Underworld, Auf (Ra) had to rely on various unfriendly spirits and demons to help tow his barque along the river in the underworld. Auf’s main job in the Underworld was to bring light to the souls of the dead as he passed through their realm. After his departure these souls fell back into a lonely darkness. The Underworld of these early solar myths was a very different place then the fields of peace that we find in the Osiris cults of the later periods.❝
Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian solar deity. By the Fifth Dynasty (2494 to 2345 BC) he had become a major god in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the midday sun. The meaning of the name is uncertain, but it is thought that if not a word for ‘sun’ it may be a variant of or linked to words meaning ‘creative power’ and ‘creator’.
The major cult centre of Ra was Heliopolis (called Iunu, “Place of Pillars”, in Egyptian), where he was identified with the local sun-god Atum. Through Atum, or as Atum-Ra, he was also seen as the first being and the originator of the Ennead, consisting of Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, Osiris, Set, Isis and Nephthys.
