Halakti, the Creator God of Light, is the only creator god monster in Yu-Gi-Oh! and is also an existence that is superior to the three illusory gods. Anyone who is interested in Yu-Gi-Oh must have heard of her reputation. Today we are going to talk about some things about this card.
After becoming a real card, Harakti has a special victory effect. The conditions for activating its special victory require sacrificing 1 monster each of the originally named "Sky Dragon of Osiris", "Obelisk's Giant Divine Soldier" and "Winged Dragon of the Sun God" on your field. It corresponds to the plot in the original work where Atum commanded the three gods in the name of Pharaoh, and then summoned Harakti to defeat the final boss, the evil god Zoke, with just one blow.
Some friends may wonder why Harakti is so strong in Yu-Gi-Oh! This question starts with Atum. In Egyptian mythology, Atum is called the "evening sun" and occupies the position of the supreme god among the Nine Pillars. Harakti is called the "nascent sun" and is called the Almighty God among the Nine Pillars. So when Atum and Harakti merged into one, they became the complete sun god. And our protagonist, Yami Yugi’s forgotten real name is Atum.
But this creates a logical bug. That is, since the combination of Harakti and Atum can be regarded as the complete sun god, why is the status of the Winged Dragon, which itself represents the sun god, below Harakti in the original work? In fact, from the image of Harakti, we can see obvious elements of the Winged Dragon. This shows that the author Mr. Takahashi Kazuki is very aware of the derived relationship between Harakti and the Sun God.
Harakti in the anime has golden wings, and the decoration on his head is also the classic eagle head image of the sun god Ra. And from the dialogue, we can know that three thousand years ago, Atum failed to defeat Zok by himself, but now he defeated Zok with the power of Harakti. It fits the allusion of the combination of "evening sun" and "newborn sun".
So the problem finally arises in the combat power of [Wings of the Sun God Dragon]. In the original work, the Winged Dragon did not defeat the great evil god Zork, and even the three illusory gods were destroyed together by Zork. This means that if the protagonist wants to defeat Zork, he must bring out a god with higher power than the Sun God. But as we all know, the sun god is the supreme god in Egyptian mythology, and there is no one higher than the god Ra.
Coincidentally, the same problem not only caused trouble for Mr. Takahashi Kazuki, but also troubled the pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty in 2400 BC. In order to propagate to the people that the Pharaoh was legally and reasonably in charge of everything in the universe on earth and in the heavens, the priests combined the god Ra with Horus, who symbolized royal power, and created a god named "Ra-Harakti". New Gods. The Pharaoh was the incarnation of this new god on earth.
One of the distinctive features of the combination of Ra and Horus is that he began to have an eagle-headed body. Originally, this setting belonged exclusively to Horus. Mr. Takahashi Kazuki probably got inspiration from here, and then created this [Harakti, the Creator God of Light] in the way of "Deus Ex Machina" in the final chapter, adding to the long part of the main story of Yu-Gi-Oh! The 3,000-year feud came to an end.