Anubis is the God of mummification, protector of tombs and is often represented as having a dog's head. He is said to have weighed the souls of the dead against Ma'at's feather.
Atum was known as "the complete one". He was a great creator-God thought to have been the oldest worshipped at Heliopolis and came into being among the primeval waters of Nun. He is usually shown as a man wearing a double crown.
Apis a God depicted as a bull, symbolized fertility and strength in war. Apis was worshipped especially as Memphis, where he was recognized as a manifestation of Ptah, then or Ra and later of Osiris.
Bes was a protector or women during pregnancy and childbirth. Fond of parties and sensual music, he is usually shown as having short legs, an obese body and a grotesque bearded face. He is also credited with being able to dispel evil spirits.
Geb (also Kebu, Sibu, Sivu) was a God of the earth, earthquakes and fertility. His sister Nut was his counterpart as the sky Goddess.
Horus a sky God whose symbol was the hawk, is usually depicted as a falcon-headed man. He was regarded as the protector of the monarchy and his name was often added to royal titles. He assumed various aspects; he was known to the Greeks as Harpocrates (Horus the Child) and was usually shown as a chubby infant with a finger in his mouth.
Khephra (also Khephera, Khopri) is said to have been self-created and God of the dawn sun. His symbol was the scarab beetle. (Both the sun and the act of self-creating are symbolized by the ball of dung which the scarab beetle rolls in front of it and which hatches into a new beetle).
Khonsu whose name means "he who crosses", was a Moon God worshippped especially at Thebes, as a member of a triad with the divine son of Amun and Mut.
Osiris a God originally associated with fertility, was the husband of Isis and father of Horus. He is known chiefly through the story of his death at the hand of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration by his wife Isis to a new life as ruler of the afterlife. Under Ptolemy I his cult was combined with that of Apis to produce the cult of Serapis.
Ptah was an ancient deity of Memphis, creator of the universe, God of artisans and husband of Sekhmet. He became one of the chief deities of Egypt and was identified by the Greeks with Hephaestus.
Ra the supreme Egyptian Sun God, was worshipped as the creator of all life and often portrayed with a falcon's head bearing the solar disc. He appears travelling in his ship with other GOds, crossing the sky by day and journeying through the underworld at the dead of night. From earliest times he was associated with the pharaoh.
Seth one of the oldest of Egyptian deities, he is the God of chaos and evil, as well as the personification of desert drought. He is shown as a man with the head of a monster.
Thoth is the God of knowledge, law, wisdom, writing and the Moon. He is also the measurer of time and depicted either as an ibis, a man with the head of an ibis or as a baboon.
Bastet (also Bast) a Goddess who is usually shown as a woman with the head of a cat and wearing one gold earring and carrying a sistrum in her right hand. She was the Goddess of pleasure, dancing, music and joy. Cats were considered to be her sacred animal and were therefore protected from harm.
Hathor was a sky Goddess, the patron of love and joy, represented variously as a cow, with a cow's head or ears or with a solar disk between the cow's horns. Her name means "House of Horus".
Isis was first a nature Goddess, wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. Her worship spread to Western Asia, Greece and Rome, where she was identified with various local Goddesses.
Ma'at is the Goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order and was the daughter of Ra. She is depicted as a young and beautiful woman, seated or standing, with a feather on her head.
Mut was the queen of all the Gods and regarded the wife of all living things. She was also the wife of Amon and mother of Khonsu. She is usually depicted with the head of a vulture. Her name means "the mother".
Nut the sky-Goddess, was thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning. She is usually shown as a naked woman with her body arched above the earth, which she touches with her feet and hands.
Sekhmet was a fierce lion-Goddess, counterpart of the gentler cat-Goddess Bastet and wife of Ptah at Memphis. Her messangers were abominable creatures who could bring about diseases and other curses on mankind.
