The Story of the Sun Deities of Ancient Egypt

The bremnerind papyrus is from the much later ptolemaic period of egyptian history. It contains information about ritual and ceremony that any one can undertake in order to help the sun god ra defeat his enemy, the great serpent called apopis. Pharaohs would often carry the name of deities within their own a amen in aman hotep, ra in rameses, set in seti, pata in maneta and thot in totmoth. The stars of the night sky were deities known as the imperishable ones, always visible at any time of year. Mars would be associated with horace, and mercury was associated with set arton