Amen-Ra


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Amen-Ra

(ˌɑːmənˈrɑː)
n
(Non-European Myth & Legend) Egyptian myth the sun-god; the principal deity during the period of Theban hegemony
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A•men-Ra

or A•mon-Ra

(ˈɑ mənˈrɑ)

n.
an Egyptian god in whom Amen and Ra were combined.
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Noun1.Amen-Ra - Egyptian sun godAmen-Ra - Egyptian sun god; supreme god of the universe in whom Amen and Ra were merged; principal deity during Theban supremacy
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Unfortunately, this included the mummified daughter of Egyptian pharaoh Amen-ra, who it's said went on to haunt the station, appearing and screaming so loudly that the noise carried to adjoining stations.
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The first of these is the 'unlucky mummy' in the British Museum, otherwise Acquisition 22542; this is actually a painted inner coffin lid from the mummy-case of a high-status individual, and was described by the Victorian Egyptologist Ernest Wallis Budge as that of the Priestess of Amen-Ra. Its magical powers first manifested themselves in 1868 at the expense of Thomas Douglas Murray, who was said to have lost an arm in a shooting accident in Egypt immediately after acquiring the unlucky artefact.
CURSE OF THE MUMMY THE ship sank because the mummy of Amen-Ra, an Egyptian princess who died in approximately 1050BC, was in the hold.
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