'Ra answered: "Even now fear is falling upon them and they are fleeing into the desert and hiding themselves in the mountains in terror at the sound of my voice.'

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Many of you know the story of the ancient sun god Ra by name, though not by heart. On a recent revisit, however, we noticed something we missed when we first encountered his story - neither Ra's defiance of darkness so vividly evoked, nor the sense of despair that gripped you as you descended into the halls of darkness.

 

Lux—that is, the light called delicate death that Ra offered to the darkness and its followers—the sun's most vital gleams—may have been far beyond what the stories tell. This labyrinth of obscurities offered us an inevitable opportunity to revisit the hero's journey. Relentless embellishments and bottomless research led Ex Oriente Lux to reveal the 'Ra Collection'. If you would like to accompany this ancient journey even more deeply, let's explore together.