Note 209 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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Ra was always the material sun; while Horus was probably in ancient times the god of the sky: Maspero, Ét. Égyptol. t. II. p. 229. With the Middle Empire the emblem of Ra began to be added to that of Horus as the “crest” of the Pharaoh’s cognizance, showing that the king was himself regarded as the representative of a composite divinity, Horus-Ra. Cf. “Titles of Thinite Kings,” P.S.B.A. 1908, p. 89.