Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Krokotopia – Ra

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Ra – Ra the Egyptian sun god

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Ra

Ra is a Boss located in Ra’s Reading Room, which requires a Wooden Skeleton Key to access. Defeating him grants the Reading Room Roustabout Badge.

Excuse me, I forgot to put the sign on the door, but this reading room is occupied at this hour. I have reserved it every day in fact. When the sun reaches its zenith, this is the only time during the day that I get a break from balancing the blasted thing. Say though, I’ve been looking for a bright, beaming young wizard just like you, one who might one day share my… responsibility. You seem to have a sunny disposition, but can you take the heat? Come. Face me and prove you don’t burn too easily.

Ra

Ra (also given as Re) is the sun god of ancient Egypt. He is one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon and was later merged with others such as Horus, becoming Ra-Horakhty (the morning sun), Amun (as noonday sun), and Atum (the evening sun) associated with primal life-giving energy.

This painted stela shows the seated falcon-headed Ra-Horakhty. Ra-Horakhty combines the sun god Ra with Horus, the sky god, and is believed to coincide with the popularity of sun worship in ancient Egypt. From Thebes, Egypt, 8th to 4th century BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)

Ra is the Egyptian word for ‘sun’. As a solar deity, Ra embodied the power of the sun but was also thought to be the sun itself, envisioned as the great god riding in his barge across the heavens throughout the day and descending into the underworld at sunset. As he made his way through the darkness beneath the earth, he was attacked nightly by the giant serpent Apophis (also known as Apep) who tried to prevent the sun from rising and so destroy all life on earth.

This is the forty-first article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the twentieth for Krokotopia. The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Ra image is from Wizard101, and is copyright KingsIsle Entertainment.

Ra-Horakhty stela uploaded by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, published on 28 November 2015. (c)National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

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