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The Paser Crossword Stela is an ancient Egyptian limestone stela that dates from the 20th Dynasty. It was constructed by Paser, c. 1150 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses VI. [1] The stela's text is a hymn to the goddess Mut. It is constructed to be read horizontally, vertically, and around its perimeter, therefore three times.
SUN (50A: What Ra, Sol, Helios and Huitzilopochtli personify) I like that this clue highlights the fact that many cultures have SUN deities as part of their legends. Ra is an ancient Egyptian SUN god.
Montu – A god of war and the Sun, worshiped at Thebes [20] Nefertum – A god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time Son of Ptah and Sekhmet [21] Nemty – Falcon god, worshiped in Middle Egypt, [22] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods [23] Neper – A god of Grain [24]
Khepri (Egyptian: ḫprj, also transliterated Khepera, Kheper, Khepra, Chepri) is a scarab-faced god in ancient Egyptian religion who represents the rising or morning sun. By extension, he can also represent creation and the renewal of life. [2]
Nut swallows the Sun, which travels through her body at night to be reborn at dawn. Ra, the sun god, was the second to rule the world, according to the reign of the gods. He decreed, "Nut shall not give birth any day of the year." At that time, the year was only 360 days. Nut spoke to Thoth, god of wisdom, and he had a plan.
Sekhmet was considered the wife of the god Ptah and mother of his son Nefertum. She was also said to be the mother of the lion-headed war god, Maahes. She was also considered to be the sister of the cat goddess Bastet. [8] The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet is the most represented deity in most Egyptian collections worldwide.
The Ennead or Great Ennead was a group of nine deities in Egyptian mythology worshipped at Heliopolis: the sun god Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. [2] The Ennead sometimes includes Horus the Elder, an ancient form of the falcon god, not the son of Osiris and Isis.
Ra on the solar barque on his daily voyage across the sky (𓇯), adorned with the sun-disk. According to Egyptian myth, when Ra became too old and weary to reign on Earth he relinquished and went to the skies. [7] As the Sun god one of his duties was to carry the Sun cross the sky on his solar barque to light the day.