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Although the attributes and roles of kingship are ascribed to
many Egyptian deities, the portrayal of the highest god in a
given period as king is naturally most common. In almost all
eras of Egyptian history we find that one Egyptian god or
another rose to a pre-eminent position; this elevated role was
attributed in turn to the ancient sky god Horus, the solar god
Re, the hidden god Amun or the fused Amun-Re, and briefly but
nonetheless actually to Akhenaten's favored solar disk, the
Aten. In the final age of ancient Egyptian history the
pre-eminent position was occupied by Isis, the queen of heaven
- and also, implicitly, monarch of the gods. In any period, the
role of the king of the gods was a superlative one indeed, for
while polytheistic religions are often viewed as lessening the
importance of individual deities, the deity who ruled over the
vast pantheon of ancient Egypt can only have been envisioned
as transcendently great.
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