![]() When Ra saw the carnage, he felt sorry for the beloved children who, like tears, ‘came out of his eye.’ He stopped the massacre but refused to live more among humans. To fulfill her task, the eye transformed herself into a fierce lioness and began slaughtering humanity, delighted in her feeding. The god decided on extermination, asking his tear-giving eye again for help. While the aging Ra was fine-tuning his creations, humanity rebelled against him. Then Osiris departed to the Otherworld to rule over the deceased, thus ensuring resurrection and the cycle of life. He was resurrected through the magic of his wife long enough to impregnate her with son Horus, who would later avenge his father and recapture the throne of Egypt. Killing Osiris turned out not such a bad idea. Seth’s sister/ partner Nephthys could not stop the murder despite her love for their siblings. In fact, Seth envied Osiris so much that he killed him so he could inherit his throne and rule Egypt the way he wanted. Their brother Seth was strong but unruly, the opposite of his brother. With his sister/wife Isis, who helped her husband with creativity and magic, they formed the perfect couple. Osiris was a kind and wise ruler who taught humans agriculture and civilization. And by the way, humankind happened out of the tears of his eyes. In turn, these two birthed the Principles of life, namely Osiris the Perfect Being, who eventually would rule over the rest of the world-which Ra was busy creating by naming the elements. On a Primeval hill, Ra created out of himself the first gods, Shu (Dryness and Air), and his partner Tefnut (Humidity), who would engender other gods to complete the Cosmos: Geb the Earth god and Nut the Sky goddess. An island emerged from the water to support this divinity, who manifested itself in the form of Ra, the sun god of Egypt. When the breath of life was strong and ready, the entity called Atum decided it was time for Creation to begin. The origin story of how Ra spawned all that is known is both fascinating and illuminating:īefore creation, according to Egyptian mythology, only Darkness embraced the Primeval Ocean out of which life would come. While its unexcavated remnants lie under centuries of fields and settlements, the place remains a symbolic monument to Ra, the greatest god of ancient Egypt. This city, later called Heliopolis (city of the sun-god) by the Greeks and later Ain-Shams (eye of the sun) by the Arabs, is probably one of the oldest religious sites in the world. In a northwestern quarter of suburban Cairo, covered by 20 meters of earth, development and the lost echoes of history, is ancient Iwn, the city that witnessed the creation of the universe. ![]()
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