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Egyptian Deities

Ash (Thoth, Khons) - God of the moon

Amenhotep - Raised to the rank of god due to his archetectural genius and achievements

Ament - Goddess of the land of the west

Ammut - Demonic goddess who attends the hudging of the dead

Amun (Amon, Ammon, Amen) - Local god of the city of Thebes (Nut Amun)

Anhur - Sky god

Anta (Anat) - Daughter of Ra (aspect of Ishtar)

Anubis (Anpu) - Funerary god of embalming and tombs

Anuket (anqet, Anukis) Divine wife of Khnum

Apep (Apophis) - Demon enemy of the sun

Apis (Hap) - a bull god

Astarte - A Cannanite goddess thought to be a daughter of Ra

Aten - God of the Pharaoh Akhenaten

Atum (Tum, Tem) - Evening aspect of the sun god Ra

Auf (Efu Ra) - an aspect of the sun god Ra

Ba Neb Tetet (Banebdedet, Baneb Djedet, Banaded) - Ram god

Bastet (Bast) - Cat-headed sun goddess

Bes - A guardian god

Duamutef (Tuamutef) - A funerary god, son of Horus

Geb (Keb, Seb) - Earth god

The Great Ennead (of Heliopolis) - 9 gods which make up a protective dynasty about Ra

Hapy - A funerary god

Hathor - Goddess of love, tombs and the sky

Heket (Heqet) - Goddess of creation and the germination of crops

Horus - Sun god

Hu - 'Authoritative utterance' One of the sun god Ra's attendants

Imhotep - God of learning and medicine

Isis (Aset, Eset) - The embodiment of ideal motherhood and womanhood. Sister/wife of Osiris, mother of Horus

Khepra (Khepri, Khepera) - Scarab aspect of the sun god Ra

Khnum (Khnemu) - God of fecundity and creation from the Cataract area

Khons ({Khonsu, Khensu) - God of the moon

Maahes - Son of Ra and Bastet

Maat - goddess of truth and justice

Mehen - Divine snake who protected Ra in his coils through the Kingdom of Night

Mertsegar - Funerary goddess of the Theban necropolis

Meskhent - Goddess of childbirth

Mesta (Imseti) - One of Horus' sons who guards the human viscera after mummification.

Min (Minu, Menu) - Ithyphallic god of sex

Mont (Month, Menthu, mentu) - Falcon headed god of war

Mut - Sky goddess (wife of Amun Ra)

Nefertem (Nefertum, Iphtimis) - Son of Ptah and Sekhmet

Nehebkau - Serpent god of the Underworld

Neheh (Heh) - Personification of eternity

Neith (Neit) - goddess of war and domestic arts (especially weaving)

Nekhebet - Guardian goddess of Upper Egypt who looks after children and mothers

Nephythys (Nebthet) - Goddess of the dead

Nun (Nu) - The primal waters (the source of life)

Nut - Goddess of the sky

Osiris - Vegitation god linked with corn, later became the god of the dead and supreme funerary deity

Ptah - God of artisans, designers, builders, metal workers, architects and masons

Ptah-seker-Osiris - Composite funerary god made up of the three gods in the name

Qebhsunf (Qebehsenuf) - Visceral guardian son of Horus

Qetesh - Goddess of love

Ra - God of the sun

Renenutet (Ernutet, Renenet) - Goddess of harvest and the suckling of babies

Renpet - Goddess of youth and springtime

Resheph (Reshpu) Warrior god crowned with gazelle's horns

Saa - Personification of intelligence

Sebek (Sobk, Suchos) Crocodile god of Fayum

Seker (Soker, Socharis) A funerary god of the Mempgis necropolis

Sekhmet (Sakhmet) Goddess of war and battle

Selket (Selchis, Selquet) - Guardian goddess of conjugal union

Septu (Sopd, Sopdu) - War god

Serapis - National god of Ptolemaic Egypt

Seshat (Sesheta) - Goddess of writing and letters and archives

Set (Seth, Seti, Sutekh) - God of thunder and storm. Personification of evil in the battle against good

Shait - goddess of destiny

Shu - God of air and atmosphere

Tanen (Tathnenen) - Ptah ia the aspect of an earth god

Taureret (Taurt, Thoueris) - Goddess of childbirth

Tefnut (Tefenet) - goddess of moisture (especially atmospheric moisture, dew, rain and mist)

Thoth (Tehuti, Thout, Djehuti, Zehuti) - Great god of wisdom, magic, music, medicine, asronomy, geometry, surveying, drawing and writing

Uajyt (Uatchet, Per Uadjit, Uazet, Uto, Buto) - Guardian goddess of Lower Egypt

Wepwawet (Upuaut, Ophois) - 'Opener of Roads' wolf headed god of the Underworld

 

Adapted from 'A guide to the Gods' by Richard Carlyon

I recommend this book for much much more information on these and other deities

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