Who was the Egyptian sun god? (Hint: his name is only two letters long)
Egyptian sun temple Egyptian sun temple Egyptian Sun Temples were Ancient Egyptian temples to the sun god Ra. The term has come to mostly designate the temples built by six or seven pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period. However, sun temples would make a reappearance a thousand years later under Akhenaten in the New Kingdom with his building of the Karnak Temple in Thebes. Fifth Dynasty sun temples were built in two localities, Abu Gorab and Abusir, both within of each other and around south of modern-day Cairo. They may have been modeled after an earlier sun temple in
Shu (Egyptian god) and defender as the sun god does he sometimes receive a lion's head. He carries an ankh, the symbol of life. Shu (Egyptian god) Shu (Egyptian for "emptiness" and "he who rises up") was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, a personification of dry air, spouse and counterpart to goddess Tefnut and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony. In Heliopolitan theology, Atum created the first couple of the Ennead, Shu and Tefnut by masturbating or by spitting. Shu was the father of Nut and Geb and grandfather of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. His