Cigarette Card

Cavanders “Ancient Egypt” Cigarette Card #23 “Egyptian God Ra”. Produced in 1928.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“Ra is figured as a man walking, and commonly has the head of a hawk surmounted by the disk of the sun with the asp encircling it. He bears in his right hand, the ankh or sign of life, and in his left the sceptre.
The worship of Ra was more nearly universal than that of any other Egyptian deity, un less it were Osiris, who was also a Sun-God, and so a form of Ra. As distinguished from Osiris, Ra was the sun of the upper world.”