Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

Different gods are represented by a winged solar disk. For example, the Egyptian god Behdety usually appears in the form of a winged solar disk. “He often appears in battle scenes hovering above the Pharaoh like a great falcon with outspread wings....” Horus also is represented by a winged solar disk. In Egyptian Mythology, we are told: “The sun, most important of the Egyptian deities, had many names, and the interpretations given to his functions were extremely varied. As a sun-disk he was called Aten; as the rising sun his name was Khepri, a great scarab beetle rolling before him the globe of the sun, just as on earth the scarab rolls before it a ball of dung in which it has laid its eggs and from which will burst forth life; as the sun climbed to its zenith he was called Ra, supreme god of Heliopolis; and as he set as an old man he was called Atum. He was also called Horus, and when this aspect was combined with that of Ra as Ra-Harakhte he was seen as the youthful sun of the horizon, a winged sun-disk.” The Assyrian sun god, Shamash, was also represented by the winged sun-disk, as was Asshur, an Assyrian war god.