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**1) The film implies that the rebellion took place not too long after Ra initially established himself- both Ra's arrival and the Stargate coverstone are dated to 8,000 BC. The novelization describes Ra's rule in detail and there's only about a couple generations on Earth. That gives us five thousand years of gaps between Ra's rule and the beginnings of the pharaohs' rule. (The series, on the other hand, puts the rebellion in 3,000 BC.)
**2) Even if it was a popular revolt (the novelization describes it as more of a conspiracy) the fact is that Ra had brought a lot of technology (e.g. writing) and order to the people, and the novel explains that the civilization he had built collapsed until revived more naturally thousands of years later. There certainly would have been conflicting attitudes on his legacy, and I can see a lot of the rebels coming to regret it.
**3) Interestingly, Ra is basically absent from the archaeological record (Horus and Seth being much prefered) until the Fourth Dynasty Pharaohs starting naming themselves Sons of Ra- these being the same Pharaohs who are considered to have built the Giza pyramids. My [[headcanon]] is that they were open admirers of Ra's legacy and restored his pyramids and his good name. Later chroniclers would have thought their claim that Ra himself had built them was some bizarre legitimacy-propaganda and assumed the Fourth Dynasty had built them themselves.
== Why couldn't they open the Stargate before Daniel found the seventh symbol? ==
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