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The sun god Ra was arguably Egypt's most important deity. Ra was an ancient deity who coalesced with many other solar and cosmic gods through time while retaining his own position. At an early date he seems to have merged with the falcon god becoming Ra-Horakhty as the morning sun and with Atum as the evening sun. Even when the god Amun rose to national supremacy in the Middle and New Kingdoms, Ra was not suppressed and the two deities were brought together as Amun-Ra in a process of syncretism which led association of most of Egypt's major gods with the powerful solar deity. The name RA is simply the Egyptian word for the sun and while the blazing solar orb was considered to be the visible body of Ra, it was also seen as his independent Eye as a fierce manifestation of one of a number of goddesses As Egyptian mythology tells how Ra ruled on earth in the earliest ages there are also ample indications that the Egyptians recognized the Sun's influence in the physical world chosen solar manifestation power providing light and heat, causing crops to grow and a source of life in the cosmic world. .