Ra and the Sun Gods

The Ancients

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Of all the Egyptian Gods it is Ra, the God of the Sun, who is perhaps most well known in the popular imagination. He is said to have voyaged across the sky on his solar barge and then come nightfall descended into the underworld to battle all sorts of monstrous creatures. But Ra is a complicated character. He is often fused with other Egyptian gods and transformed into different solar deities entirely. So who really is he? And where do the tales about him come from?

In today's episode of The Ancients - the second in our 5 part series on Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - Tristan Hughes is joined by Egyptologist Campbell Price to unpack to story of Ra and the Sun Gods and explore the deity who the Ancient Egyptians arguably revered most highly.

Presented by Tristan Hughes. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Families need looking at...
0:02.0	See my headphones?
0:03.0	Kitchen table!
0:04.0	What was they saying?
0:05.0	Mam, I can't find Mr. Ted.
0:07.0	Under your bed.
0:08.0	Anyway.
0:09.0	Made you some tea love.
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0:37.0	Now, the things we choose to tell our parents, grandparents, or in fact any elderly friend or relative, well they can be a bit selective at times.
0:45.2	Don't pretend you're not sure what I'm talking about. I bet everyone has something popping
0:49.6	into their head which they've decided is best to just not tell that person about.
0:54.0	Okay, so for me, here's something my mum doesn't know about.
0:58.0	I never told her that during a trip to New Zealand a few years ago,
1:02.0	I was centimetres away from being crushed by a rock slide.
1:06.1	It was whilst I was hiking up a mountain.
1:08.2	It was misty and I lost the trail.
1:10.5	With my mum already worrying with myself being the other side of the world, you can understand how that event didn't make it into future conversations.
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