| Deity |
Meaning |
|
| Amun |
Amun is the local god of Thebes. He is the god of the wind
and air as well as being the chief of all gods. His worship
was the strongest among all deities especially in the New Kingdom. |
|
| Amun-Re |
A combination of god Amun
and god Ra. The name became popular when the
worship of Amun spread to all over the country. |
|
| Anubis |
Anubis is the god of the dead. He was associated with embalming
of a dead man, and he plays a big role in a man's travel to
the underworld. Anubis is illustrated as a jackal or a jackal-headed
man. |
|
| Apis |
Apis is god of Memphis illustrated as bull, crowned with the
sun disc and a uraeus .
The bull itself was honored in celebrations after being chosen
after recognizing some signs that indicate its sacredness. |
|
| Aten |
The son god. He is pictured as a sun disc with rays extending
from it ending in human hands. Aten was worshipped with other
god until Akhenaten made him the sole god. |
|
| Bastet |
This is depicted as a cat-headed goddess holding a sistrum
or as a cat. Her worship was centered in Bubastis in Delta.
She was a deity of pleasure. |
|
| Geb |
He is the earth god. He is depicted as a man with a goose
on his head. He is also husband-brother of Nut,
the sky goddess. Geb and Nut are associated with cosmogonic
tale. |
|
| Hapi |
This is the god of the Nile and river. Hapi is usually depicted
as a man with developed female breasts as a symbol of abundance. |
|
| Haroeris |
Horus the elder, a variation of Horus |
|
| Hathor |
Goddess of love, music and dancing . etc. Hathor is usually
pictured as a cow or a woman with the sun disc between her horns.
Sometimes she is considered an aspect of Isis. |
|
| Horus |
Horus is illustrated as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. He
is the god protector and the deity of war. Horus is considered
a manifestation of a living king |
|
| Imhotep |
The vizier
and architect who built Djoser's step pyramid and deified as
a physician god later |
|
| Isis |
Isis is goddess of fertility and motherhood. She is the mother
of Horus and wife of Osiris. Isis is always depicted wearing
horns that bear the sun-disc in between. Isis was very popular
in Greek and Roman eras and her cult. The island of Philae at
Aswan was a strong center of her cult that survived to be the
most recent Ancient Egyptian-related worship. |
|
| Khnum |
Always depicted as a ram-headed man, Khnum is the god creator
of mankind. The cult of Khnum was mainly worshipped in Elephantine. |
|
| Khonsu |
Khonsu is the son of god Amun and goddess
Mut. He is sometimes depicted as a child
with a plait in his head, or a falcon-headed man. |
|
| Maat |
Maat is depicted as a woman with an ostrich feather on her
head, and sometimes with wings. Maat is associated with the
judgement of the deceased; she weighs his heart. |
|
| Mandulis (Merul) |
Mandulis is a lion-headed god whose worship was limited to
Nubia. |
|
| Min |
The ithyphallic
god of fertility, always depicted wearing plumed crown with
a flail in his right hand and an erect penis. He is sometimes
associated with God Amun. |
|
| Montu |
The warrior-god always illustrated with a falcon head wearing
double plumes and a sun disc. Montu was manifested in a bull
called Buchis. |
|
| Mut |
Goddess of sky usually depicted as a woman wearing a vulture
headdress or the double crown of Egypt. Mut was also a wife
to Amun and mother of Khonsu
and Montu. Her theophany was the vulture.
|
|
| Nut |
Nut is also a sky goddess, usually depicted as a woman whose
body is stretched over the earth, personified in Geb,
her husband, the earth. Her body is full of stars in a magnificent
manifestation of the sky. |
|
| Osiris |
God of the dead and the judge of the netherworld and fertility
in many occasions. Osiris is the husband of goddess Isis
and father of god Horus. Horus is illustrated
as a mummified man with plumed crown on his head |
|
| Pakhet |
She is lion goddess of the desert. She was associated with
the Greek with their goddess Artemis, the virgin huntress, which
reflects Pakhet's own features. |
|
| Petesouchos |
One guise of God Sobek worshipped in
locally in Fayoum, as his worship was centered there. |
|
| Pnepheros |
Another guise of God Sobek worshipped
in locally in Fayoum. -See Petesouchos
and Soknopaios. |
|
| Ptah |
God of Architects and builders. He always appears as a mummified
man, with a scepter in his hands. Ptah is the creator of Memphis. |
|
| Ra |
Ra, also called Re, is a supreme god in ancient Egypt. He
is a sun god and chief deity of Heliopolis, always appear with
a falcon head crowned with a solar disc with a uraeus attached
to it. |
|
| Re-Harakhty |
This is a combination between god Ra and
Horus. Harakhty is one name of Horus, which
means "Horus of the Horizon." |
|
| Reneutet (Termuthis) |
The serpent goddess of harvest and happiness usually depicted
as a serpent wearing horns containing the sun disc. |
|
| Satis |
Goddess of fertility and inundation of the Nile. She is usually
depicted as a woman wearing a conical crown with elaborated
horns. |
|
| Serapis |
Serapis is a combination of god Osiris and Apis,
an invention created by Ptolemy I Soter I. |
|
| Seth |
Seth is the evil brother of Isis and Osiris.
He killed the latter and scattered his disassembled body all
over Egypt. He is the god of deserts and chief deity of the
Hyksos. |
|
| Sobek |
Sobek is always represented as a crocodile or a crocodile-headed
man. He is god of fertility and mightiness. Sobek is also the
domestic god of Fayoum region. He was worshipped there in three
guises as Petesouchos, Pnepheros
and Soknopaios. |
|
| Soknopaios |
A variation of God Sobek, the third form
that was worshipped domestically in Fayoum. -See Petesouchos,
Pnepheros |
|
| Thoth |
Thoth is always depicted as an ibis-headed man. He is god
of wisdom, healing and writing. |
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