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[Alexandr Korol]

such a cycle, such an era – the Golden Age. And if we examine all the ancient writings, we can see that there were periods when, on the contrary, someone overthrew this Sun, someone devoured this Sun – this was often depicted in this way – and the period of the Sun ended, and the time of another era arrived, another God who also ruled in His own period. And all these four gods, each one replaces the other. And now is the time when the Sun God must come. What is written next in Wikipedia? God-Pharaoh. “According to myths, after creating the world, Ra reigned over it like a human pharaoh, and this time was the Golden Age of humanity. Thus, all subsequent rulers of Egypt were considered earthly incarnations or sons of Ra. Ra firmly held the entire world in his hands, thanks to the magical power of his mysterious name.” And there was a time when the period of Ra came to an end. It is also told: “In the underworld, Ra came face to face with Apophis (Apop) – a terrible giant serpent, an evil demon of darkness trying to swallow the Sun and forever deprive the world of sunlight. Apophis was the opposite of Ma’at, the divine justice of Ra, and symbolized evil, chaos, destruction, and foreign oppression (starting from the period of the New Kingdom, when the final version of the myth about the battle between Ra and Apophis took shape). Therefore, every night, Ra, in the form of a red cat, with the help of several other gods, including Bast, Serket, and Shu, defeats and kills (or captures) Apophis, only to battle him again the next night.” The fact that it is shown that he fights this night is simply happening in miniature for us – we encounter this every day. And in the same way, we experience it as the four seasons, and it also exists on a global scale, meaning eras. And this is how the change of eras and the change of power takes place.
Next, “According to the ethnographer Arthur Hocart, the cult of the Sun comes to the forefront in cultures where the role of the ‘sacred king’ increases. In Sumerian-Akkadian mythology, the sun god Shamash still ranks below the moon god in significance but is already becoming one of the most revered deities. Solar cults play a crucial role in ancient Egyptian religion. Among the Egyptian solar deities are Ra, Horus, Amun, and Khepri – the scarab god who rolls the Sun across the sky.” Returning to Helios, Helios, “whose very name contains radiance, brilliance, the blazing fire of the Sun, belonged to the generation of Titans, being considered the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, the brother of the Moon goddess Selene and the morning dawn – Eos. The Hellenic Sun god is an ancient pre-Olympian deity, whose elemental force