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Egyptian gods

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Aset (Isis), the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) Goddess of civilization and primary Mother Goddess.

Montu

Falcon-headed war god of Upper Egypt.

His cult developed at Thebes and spread throughout Egypt under the Theban kings, who expanded the country's borders beginning around 2000 BC. He was the tutelary god of the Theban monarchs, and brought them victory in war. Depicted in human form with the head of a falcon, crowned with the solar disk.

Bastet. The cat godess

Ma'at

Goddess of Truth, Balance, Order...

Her name, literally, meant 'truth' in Egyptian. She was truth, order, balance and justice personified. She was harmony, she was what was right, she was what things should be. It was thought that if Ma'at didn't exist, the universe would become chaos, once again!

She leads the deceased person in to be judged

she was judge at the Egyptian underworld at the Halls of Ma'ati or Halls of the Double Ma'at.

The dead person's heart was placed on a scale, balanced by Ma'at herself, or by the Feather of Ma'at (her symbol that she wore on her head was an ostrich feather).

Anubis

osiris

Set is just more fun...

You don't know what is coming next..

Nephthys

Thoth

Well-known God with the head of an Ibis. He's a good all-rounder for Arts, Science, Music, Astronomy, Speech mathematics, and Letters.

He is the master of time

(god of writing and scribes) weighed the heart... if the deceased had been found to not have followed the concept of ma'at during his life (if he had lied or cheated or killed or done anything against ma'at)

His heart was devoured by a demon (she was called Ammut - Devouress of the Dead) and he died the final death. If the heart weighed the same as Ma'at, the deceased was allowed to go on to the afterlife.

Nekhebet

Responsible For: Wild Birds, Creator Of Life, Death and Rebirth

Totemic Form: Vulture

Nekhebet was usually represented in Egyptian art as a vulture or a woman with the head of a vulture, but sometimes she was depicted as a woman wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt (southern Egypt).

Nekhebet spent much time at the palace, where she suckled the royal children, including the pharaoh. When the pharaoh was grown, she accompanied him in battle, hovering over his head in the form of a vulture.
Nekhebet, The Vulture Goddess

Nekhebet and Uadjet She was closely associated with her sister Uadjet, the cobra goddess, and together they were known as the Nebti. As a pair, they represented cycles of birth and death, beginning and ending. In the illustration here, Nekhebet and Uadjet are guarding the Eye Of Ra, the Utchat. Nekhbet is wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, and Uadjet is wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt.

Anubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu, (variously spelled Anupu, Ienpw etc.) The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the Pharoah. At this time, Anubis was the most important god of the Dead but he was replaced during the Middle Kingdom by Osiris.

He takes names in connection with his funerary role, such as He who is upon his mountain, which underscores his importance as a protector of the deceased and their tombs, and the title He who is in the place of embalming, associating him with the process of mummification. Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumes different roles in various contexts, and no public procession in Egypt would be conducted without an Anubis to march at the head.

Atum

Patron of: the sun, creation, rulership of the gods.

Appearance: rarely human, usually depicted as a crown or as one of his many totem animals. He is sometimes depicted as a black bull carrying the sun disk between his horns.

Description: In the creation myths, Atum is the primal creator. He created himself (or arose out of nothing) and created the first gods, Shu and Tefnut, from his spittle. The Memphite creation myth puts him as the first creation of Ptah, who simply said his name and he came into being.

Atum was revered not only as the father of the gods but also as the father of the pharaohs. The title "Son of Atum" was included in the many titles of the king, even after the pharaohs styled themselves "Sons of Ra."

In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelled Ubasti, Baset[1], and later Bastet) is an ancient solar and war goddess[dubious – discuss], worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. In the late dynasties, the priests of Amun began to call her Bastet, a repetitive and diminutive form after her role in the pantheon became diminished as Sekhmet, a similar lioness war deity, became more dominant in the unified culture of Lower and Upper Egypt. In the Middle Kingdom, the cat appeared as Bastet’s sacred animal and after the New Kingdom she was depicted as a woman with a cat’s head carrying a sacred rattle and a box or basket.[2]

Bast or Bastet was the cat goddess and local deity of the town of Bubastis (Per-Bast in Egyptian), where her cult was centered.[2] Bubastis was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lioness. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer.[citation needed] As protector, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the later chief male deity, Ra, who was also a solar deity, gaining her the titles Lady of Flame and Eye of Ra.

The goddess Bast was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other – the aegis usually resembling a collar or gorget embellished with a lioness head.

Bast was a goddess of the sun throughout most of Ancient Egyptian history, but later when she was changed into a cat goddess rather than a lion, she was changed to a goddess of the moon by Greeks occupying Ancient Egypt toward the end of its civilization. In Greek mythology, Bast is also known as Ailuros.

Osiris

Ruler of the underworld; consort of Isis.
Considered the oldest son of the earth god Geb, and the sky goddess, Nut.

Tefnut



Appearance: Woman with the head of a lioness


Tefnut was the goddess of moisture.

She was the wife of Shu and the mother of Nut (the sky) and Geb (the earth).

Anubis: guardian of the dead he escorts the souls of the dead to Osiris and aids in the final judgment , as the heart is weighed against the feather of truth. Pr east would often use a mask with his image on it during mummification. He also commands the army of the underworld and seeks out the evil doer and also comforts the family of the dead

Nephthys was a protective goddess of the dead.

Nephthys was the sister of Isis and Osiris, and the sister/wife of Seth. Nephthys was also the mother of Anubis.

She is often shown on coffins, or in funerary scenes.

Apep also called apophis in greek - evil serpent of the Underworld, enemy of Ra and formed from a length of Neith's spit during her creation of the world

Ptah was the god of craftsmen.



In one creation myth Ptah was a creator god. He spoke the words and the world came into being.

Qetesh:

Originally believed to be a Syrian deity, Qetesh was a goddess of love and beauty. Qetesh was depicted as a beautiful nude woman, standing or riding upon a lion, holding flowers, a mirror, or serpents. She is generally shown full-face (unusual in Egyptian artistic convention). She was also considered the consort of the god Min, the god of virility.