Ra-Horakhty is one of the gods of ancient Egypt in which the ancient Egyptians combined the god Ra represented by the sun disk and Horus on the two horizons Rˁ.w-ḥr.w-3ḫ.tj.

A falcon symbolizes it on its head, the sun disk.

Ra-Horakhtyis often represented in a standing or seated man with red skin and his head, the head of a falcon (the god Horus). He carries on his head the sun disk and a snake “Aureus.” Sometimes he was depicted in the form of a human with a ram’s head and the sun disk on it – as in the Temple of Seti I in Abydos – and sometimes with a lion’s head or a falcon’s head with ram’s horns and on the head there is always a sun disk, which is a symbol of Ra.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the sun was the source of life and considered it a god and called him Ra. This belief spread especially in northern Egypt, where Aun (Heliopolis) was the seat of this worship.

The priests raised the rank of this god to be the god of the universe. In the south, in Edfu, the cult of Horus spread. After the union of the northern and southern faces, the priesthood united the two gods of the north and the south in the form of the god Ra-Harakhty.

During the reign of King Akhenaten, the priests worshipped Ra-Horakhty. In the first years of his rule, Akhenaten allowed religious rituals in that inherited way. Then when he went to worship the god Aten represented by the sun, he described him as “Ra-Horakhty.”

The appearance of the merging form of the two gods, Ra and Horus, began around 2445 BC in the Temple of the Sun, which New Serra built in Abu Sir (village). He was also worshipped in temples in Wadi Al-Sebua, Amada, Durr, and Abu Simbel temple.