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From very early times Ra was a sun god. He took on many of the attributes and even the names of other gods as Egyptian myths evolved. He is often pictured as a hawk or as a hawk headed man with a solar disc encircled by a uraeus on his head. He is often pictured wearing the double crown of upper and lower Egypt.

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