Talk:Ra

Semi-protected edit request on 8 August 2023

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In some myth's Ma'at was created by Atum when we sat down on the hill. So I would specify (in some myth's) for her. Also in some myth's Satet was created by Ra through Heka for his own pleasure, So I would do the same for her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Netjerudua (talk • contribs) 19:06, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. --Pinchme123 (talk) 00:22, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 May 2024

I want to add Sol as Roman equvilent below Greek Equvilent Choao3r3 (talk) 12:41, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Not done. The simplest reason is that you haven't provided any sources for the change. But because we get requests like this a lot, I'm going to explain what kind of source support you need.

Per this discussion, articles should not call two deities "equivalent" unless ancient sources explicitly equate the two deities. Such equations were very dependent on the circumstances, so that, for example, in one context a Greek might equate Aphrodite with Hathor, but another Greek in different circumstances might equate Aphrodite with Isis. Because such equations were so fluid in the ancient world, cross-cultural equations of deities are not transitive. The Greeks and Romans fairly universally equated Aphrodite with Venus, but if one particular Greek equated Aphrodite with Hathor in one context, that did not guarantee that a particular Roman a few centuries later would equate Venus with Hathor.

By the same token, while Greek sources did sometimes equate Ra with Helios, that does not necessarily mean that a Roman would have equated Ra with Sol. The main obstacle here was probably that the active worship of Ra wasn't very visible in Egyptian religion by Roman times, and Romans generally had less direct contact with Egyptian religion than the Greeks did and were less likely to draw such equations. So it's possible that no Roman had occasion to equate Ra with Sol. If some Roman did do that, we would have to find a source that says so. A. Parrot (talk) 19:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)