Egypt ancient Sun research

Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, one of the most ancient gods, and the guide of worlds, the one of one, or the one one.
Time began with the first rising of Ra. He is said to sail in the morning in a boat called Atet and in the afternoon in a boat called Sektet.
At night he travels through the underworld.
http://www.tigtail.org/TIG/M_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Egypt/Egypt-info/egypt.gods_earth+sky.html


Aten, a symbol of the sun's disk; represents the universal creator of all things in all lands; the source of all life. This was a national religious symbol of Egypt chosen by Amenhotep the Fourth to replace Ra. However it fell from favor after his death, and Ra rose in importance again. Eventually, Osiris and the cult of resurrection subsumed all the nature gods in importance.
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This is another legend about the sun in Egypt
Ra, the sun god, was born of primeval waters. He lived in the heart of a lotus-bud, afraid that if he opened his eyes, he would lose his brightness. He evntually emerged to become the Supreme God. It is said that Ra created humanity from his tears. The tears that were left became the Nile, making it a source of fertility for crops. Out of his spit came the God of Air, Shu, and the God of moisture, Tefnut. He cut his hands, and from the blood that flowed, he created the two Gods Sia, God of the mind and Hu, God of Authority. During the day, Ra would visit each of the twelve provinces of his realm. At night, he would descend to the Underworld. So that the world would be bright in his absence, he created the Moon. In his travels in the Underworld, he would battle the Serpent of Chaos, Apophis. Once Apophis devoured the boat that Ra used to cross to the Underworld, causing an eclipse.
Isis gained the power of magic by tricking the God Ra. When the God became old and senile, Isis mixed some of his saliva with mud to create a poisonous snake. The snake bit Ra, and forced him to give the key to his power, his secret name, to Isis in exchange for his healing. Isis thus gained the ultimate power. Ra eventually became so tired of humanity that he left the Earth and stayed permanently in Heaven.
Horus fought his uncle, Set, his father's killer for eighty years to avenge his father's death. he was finally victorious, and won the throne of Egypt. Set was furious, and in his rage, cut out his nephew's eyes. His eyes, however, were restored as the sun and the moon with the saliva of the God of Wisdom, Thoth. This is similar to the Shinto creator god, whose eyes are also the sun and the moon.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12865/mray/legy.htm