Re
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #947 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 11 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Ancient Egyptian sun deity who could correspond with Ptah and was linked to the sacred bull Apis from the New Kingdom.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tangaloa, Menabosho, Balli Penyalong, Laki Neho, Laki Tenangan, Singalang Burong, Rudiobus, Koda Pen, Cagn, Ngo, Sekhet, Ptahil, Sokar, Tatenen, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Serket, Renenutet, Nehmtaway, Anhur, Ihy, Harsomtus, Menat, Amun-Ra, Aton, Hanuman, Yaghuth, Epona, Aten, Osiris, Bes, Geb, Atum, Bastet, Sekhmet, Sobek, Thoth, Khnum, Isis, Horus, Hathor, Ammon
- syncretized with
- Ptah
- enemy of
- Apep
Mentioned by
and 6 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“The god Ptah could correspond with the sun deities Re or Aten during the Amarna period, where he embodied the divine essence with which the sun god was fed to come into existence”
#17057 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Nehebkau continuously appears alongside the sun god Re, as an assistant, companion and successor.”
#24442 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“(I swear), as Re lives for me and loves me, and as my father Amun favors me, I set out for him the whole court, and the chief executive of the troops.”
#40190 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“All gods are three: Amun, Re, and Ptah, whom none equals. He who hides his name as Amun, he appears to the face as Re, his body is Ptah.”
#40741 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“the first part invokes the sun, Ra, in 75 different forms. The second part is a series of prayers in which the pharaoh assumes parts of nature and deities, but mostly of the sun god. Developed in the Eighteenth Dynasty, it also praises the king for his union with the sun god, as well as other deities.”
#41902 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001