Without the Sun, there is no life, there is just nothingness and darkness. The Ancient Egyptians saw the Sun as being key to their collective wellbeing. The Egyptian symbol of the winged sun was a symbol of royal power. It also represents the soul without physical form.

The Egyptian myth of the sun concerned the Solar God Ra who brought the Sun into the skies every single day. According to Egyptian myth, the main duty of Ra, the solar deity, was to carry the sun cross the sky on his solar boat to light the day. This boat was known as the boat of a million years. Sunset and twilight represented the time when Ra and his vessel passed beyond the horizon, in the west, to begin the journey through the underworld. There, according to the myth, he would sail on the subterrestrial River Nile and cross through the twelve gates and regions. In the un ...