Re-Hor-Achti ( God Of Ancient Egypt )

Ra-Hor-Achti: God of Ancient Egypt

Ra-Hor-Achti, the main god of the Abu Simbel temple (Temple of Ramses II), is depicted as Horus in falcon form with a sun disk above his head representing the god Re.

Ra-Hor-Achti was worshipped in Abu Simbel and Wadi El-Saboua. He is often shown as a human figure with a falcon’s head, with a sun disk encircled by a snake, called Urius.

This god represents the union between the sun god Ra whose worship was centered in Heliopolis in northern Egypt and the sky god Horus worshipped in Edfu in southern Egypt. After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, the priests merged the gods of the north and south into Ra-Harakhti representing the journey of the sun’s rays from east to west.

The Egyptians believed Ra-Hor-Achti was involved in the creation of the world. They saw the sunrise as creation, the daily cycle of the sun rising, setting and rising again the next day was regeneration. So Ra was the creator and the lord of life, as there is no life without the sun.