| Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Egyptians. |
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| AMENTET Goddess of the west. Welcomes the dead to the underworld. AMUN "The Hidden One". Originally a god of the wind and the breath of life, he eventually became the sun god at Thebes (called Amun-Ra). Shown with the head or horns of a ram. ANHUR Warrior and hunter god. Depicted as a warrior with a plumed headdress. ANUBIS God of embalming and the funerary rites. Shown with the head of a jackal. APEP A great serpent which tried to destroy the sun each day. ATEN The disc of the sun. ATUM A sun god and creator of the universe. Father of Tefnut and Shu. Local god of Heliopolis. BAST (Bastet) Cat headed goddess of protection and of course, cats! Worshipped at Bubastis. BES Dwarf god. Protective deity associated with dance, music, fertility and pleasure. BUTO The main goddess of the Egyptian delta and protector of the Egyptian king. She is associated with serpents and snakes. CHONS (Khonsu) God of the moon. "Master of Time" Depicted as a mummy with a child's side lock. DUAMUTEF One of the four sons of Horus. He protected the stomach of the deceased. GEB "The Green Man". God of the earth, depicted as green skinned with a goose on his head. HAPI Personification of the Nile. Depicted as a plump man with a crown of aquatic plants. HATHOR Goddess of joy and love. Originally a sky goddess, she became protector of women and was depicted as a cow or a woman with a solar disc between cow's horns on her head. Her cult centre was Dendera. HEKET Goddess of childbirth, shown with a frog's head. The frog was a symbol of life and fertility. HORUS Son of Osiris and Isis. God of the "all-seeing eye". Usually depicted as a man with a falcon's head. Has many different manifestations. IMHOTEP God of medicine. Raised from mortality to god status. IMSETI One of the four sons of Horus. Guarded the liver of the deceased. ISIS Mother goddess of fertility and magick. Wife and sister of Osiris. A well loved deity who was worshipped well into the Roman era. She was depicted as a woman crowned with a throne or the solar disc between cow's horns. KHEPRI The sacred scarab beetle. Associated with the rising sun. KHNUM Ram headed creator god, often portrayed at a potter's wheel. His consort is Hekat therefore he is often associated with childbirth. |