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EGYPTIAN GODS AND GODESSES
Amemait
a mythical beast called " the devourer" in ancient Egyptian mortuary lore. The creature war part lion, part crocodile and part hippopotamus. Amemait waited beside the scales in the Judgement ahall of osiris, werew souls deemed fit or unfit for eternal bliss. The beast was entitled to ear up any of the deceased Egyptian souls that did not measure up to the ideals required for paradise
Amon
A God of ancient Egypt known in early eras butt attaining dominace during the New Kingdom at Thebes. Amon, whose name means "Hidden one" figured in the Hermopoplitan myths associated with the dynamic force of life. In statues Amon was normally depicted as a handsome virile you man or as a ram with curled horns.
Amon was provided with a consort, the goddess Mut, and with a son Khons, or khonsu the ram, the symbol of the god's true spiritual power.
Anukis
A godess of the First Cataract of the Nile and the wife of the god Khnum. Anukis was depicted as a woman carrying a starr and wearing a feather crown. She was popular in most periods of Eyypt's history, expecially when the nation held vast territories below the Cataracts.
Apet
Aslo called Taueret and Taweret. A godess whom is the patroness of childbrith in most eras. Taueret was depicted as a hippopotamus, sometimes dressed in the robes of a queen, with a lion's mane. Her head was partly a crocodile's and she had the feet of a lion. She could also appera as a godess with the body of a hippoptamus but with the head of a lion. Then she carried daggers which were used against the enemy of the Egypt, both spiritual or mortal. She carried a sa amulet, a symbol of protection. THebes was a cult center of the goddess and in the New Kindgom and later eras she enjouyed popularity
Apohphis
A giant serprent with mystical powers who was the enemy of the god Ra'. Apophis lived in the waters of NUN or in the celesital waters of the nile and attempted each day to stop Ra' from his appointed passaage in the sky. Apophis was viewed as a genuine threat to Ra' by the Egyptian. On sunless days, especially on stormy days, the people took the lack of sunlight as a sign that Apophis was becoming victorios over Ra. When there was an eclipse, the Eyptians belived that Apophis had swallowed Ra' and his solar bark. Aphophis never gained a lasitng victory, however because of theprayers of the priests and the pious.
Aner-En-Rekh
AnubisThe greek rendering of the Egyptian Anpu of Anup, opener of the roades of the dead, the guide of the afterlife. He was normally depicated as a black jackal with a bushy talk or a man with the head of a jackal. In the Pyramid Texts, Anubis was described as a son of Ra and a given a daughter, a godess of freahness. In time he lost bothof those attributes and becaome part of the Osirian cultic traditioan, the son of Nephyuthys, abandionded by his mother who had borned him to Orisris. Isis raised him, and when he becamed full grown he accompained Osiris , aiding Isis when Seth slew Osiris and dismembered his corpse.
Astoreth
Aten
The diety aslo kwon as the "
"Aten of the Day," the solor disk that shone on the river, considered by some to be a form of Ra'=Harakhte. Akhenaten upon acsedning the throne in Thebes, proclaimed a great religious reformations and decreed worship of Aten as the only true reliogn of the land.
Atum
The oldes earth god in Ancient Eytpt, part of the Heliopolitan cosmogony. Atum was thought to have emerged from Nun, the watery chaose or the have created himself. His name meant "Complete One," indicating that he rose alone and unaided on the site of the temploe at Heleopolis.Atum had been identifeid with the god Ra' becoming Atum-Ra'. he was considered a form of the setting sun but could appear in ht e guise of a mongoose. In saome eras Stum was depicted as a man wearing the double crown of Egypt, with the royal scepter and the ankh.
Bata
Bastet
Bes
Bennu
Duamutef
Geb
Hapi
Harsaphes
Hathor
Hehu
Het-Hert
Hehut
Hekit
Heneb
Hepten
He-Who-Looks-Behind-Himself
Horus
Hudet
Imhotep
Imseity
Imsey
Isis
Kebwer
Kekiu
Kekiut
Kerh
kerhet
Kematef
Kemt
Kheper'ra
Khnemu
Ma'at
Mafdet
Meh'urt
Mestha
Meskhenet
Menyu
Meresger
Meshkent
Mut
Nebt-Het
Nebetur'u
Nebt'het
Nekhbet
Nenfer-hor
Nehem Auil
Neith
Nephytys
Nun
Nu
Nut
Osiris
Pert-Em-Rekh
Ptah
Qebehsenuf
Webhet
Ra
Ret
Satet
Sekhmet
Seiget
Sepdet
Seth
Shai
Shed
Shesheta
Shesmu
Shunur
Shu-Tefnut
Sobek
Sokar
Tait
Taueret
Tefnut
Thoth
Unu-T
Uduit
Weret
