![]() This is because he is born, lives and dies within the solar year, which starts and ends at Winter Solstice.Like every other sun god everywhere. Ra was sometimes portrayed inside the disk. This is the only explanation why someone like Hathor or Mut, the mother goddesses of Egypt, would play the role of "the Eye of Ra".Because it it not really an eye at all. For example, in the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used to identify dates, or specific "day-events". ![]() ![]() That I am correct can be seen from the fact that this symbol, known as " sun hieroglyph" is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to '"day xx" (of month yy').
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