Apollo And Ra Similarities

The gods, Apollo, Ra, and Horus have many things in common and share many differences in everything they are, stand for, and represent. Apollo and Ra are both god of the sun in their different cultures. Ra is represented with a large sun disc placed on the top of his head while Apollo wears a symbolic laurel wreath atop his head. Hypnos is the greek god of sleep. Like Apollo, Hypnos has a twin sibling too. His twin brother was named Thanatos.
Ra’s children, Shu and Tefnut wandered off one day and got lost. To find them, Ra plucked out his eye and sent it to go find his children. The eye found Shu and Tefnut and brought them back to Ra. While the eye was gone, Ra grew a new eye. The old eye saw this as betrayal and became enraged. To pacify the eye, Ra changed it to the uraeus which now sits on top of his head. One day, Apollo saw the lovely nymph Daphne. As soon as he saw her, he fell in love and chased after her along a river in the deep woods. This deeply frightened Daphne and caused her to flee. She was so very close to being caught by Apollo until she saw her father’s river. She screamed “Help me father, help me.” at those words, she began to transform into a laurel tree.
The river Lethe flowed through the cave. The river Lethe was the river of forgetfulness. Apollo and his twin sister, Artemis, both resided on Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus was the heavenly home of the gods where the weather was always perfect and the gods were said to have feasted on nectar and ambrosia. (Karas)
Apollo, Ra, and Hypnos all have things that make them different from any other god. They also all have things in common with most gods and mortals as well. From living with your siblings to having a disc of sun over one’s head made from an eyeball these three gods are