Egyptian Goddesses
Amaunet - The "Hidden One" an Egyptian fertility or mother goddess.  She merged with the god Neith at the beginning of time and was a memeber of the group of Egypitan gods known as the Ogdoad.  Her constor among the Ogdoad was Amun.  She was seen as a tutelary deity of the Egyptian pharaohs and a prominent part in the phatoh's accession ceremonies. 

Amentet - The goddess of teh underworld of the dead and the West. 

Amenti - The Egyptian goddess of the underworld and fertility.

Ammut - "Devouress of the Dead" the demonic goddess who attended the Judging of the Dead.  This goddess was depcited as having the head of a crocodile, torso of a lioness, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.  She wated in teh Judgement Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony and devoured those who were sinners in life. 

Anuket - The goddess personifying the Nile as nourisher of the fields.  She is particularly associated with the lower cataracts nera Aswan.  She also may have been a protective deity of childbirth.  Her principal sanctuary was at Elehantine and she was considered the daguther of Re, Satis, or Khunum.  Her sacred animal is the gazelle and she is depicted in human form wearing a crown topped with ostrich feathers.

Atchet - A goddess who nurses children.

Athor - The daughter of Ra and goddess of light.

Ausaas - The wife of Hearkhty/Horus.

Bastet - Also called Bast and Ubasti she is the cat goddess.  She is the goddess of the home and of the domestic cat; however sometimes took on the war-like aspect of a lioness.  She is the daughter of Re and occassionally seen as the daughter of Amun.  She is the wife of Ptah and mother of Mihos.  Also associted with the "eye of Re" acting as the instrument of the son god's vengence.  She was usually depected as a cat or in human form with the head of a cat, often holding a sacred rattle known as the sistrum.  Her cult was centreed on her sanctuary at Bubastis in the delta region where a necropolis containing mummified cats has been found. 

Bat - Also known as Bata she is the cow goddess of fertility.  Bat was depicted as a cow or in human from with cow's ears and horns.  She was mostly a deity of Upper Egypt. 

Beset - The femal form of Bes.

Buto - The main Delta goddess commonly assocated with snakes (especially the cobra) and serpents.  She is the Queen of the goddesses and a symbol of the pharoah's reign over the land.  She would protect those she favoured by burning them with her glare of spitting poison into their face.  She is a tutelary goddess of Lower Egypt.

Chensit - The goddess of the twentieth nome of Lower Egypt. 

Emutet - The cobra-headed goddess of agriculture and the harvest.

Hathor - The goddess of love and joy.  She symbolises beauty, love, happiness, joy, the moon, and the element Air.  "The Beautiful Face In The Boat For Thousands Of Years."  She is the daugher of Nut and Re and mother of Horus and later became a protectress of Horus when the role of mother to horus was given to Isis.  Usually se was depicted as a cow or in human form wearing a crown consisting of a sun disk held between the horns of a cow.  At Dandarah she was worhispped mainly as a goddess of women, childbrith, and fertility but in Thebes she was seen as a goddess of teh dead under the title of the "Lady of the West."

Hatmehyt - A fish goddess whos worship centered on the Nile delta, ecspeically Mendes.

Hedetet - A scoripion goddess. 

Heket - A goddess of childbirth who is depicted as a frog or when in human form with the head of a frog.  Amulets witht he image of Heket were worn by women to protect them during childbirth and she was worshipped at Her-uret near Edfu and later at Abydos.  In early times she was assocated with Khunum (a creator god) as the birth goddess and goddess who gave life to Khnum's creations.  During the Pyramid period her cult gained large political powers.  The frog is a primative symbol of generation, feritilyt, and birth. 

Hemsut - The goddess of fate. 

Hesat - Another cow goddess; but perhaps actually literally a goddess of cows.  Milk was referred to by the Egyptians as the "beer of Hesat."

Ipet - A hippopotamus goddess.

Isis - The mother goddess of day and moisture.  She retrieved and reassembled the body of Osiris after Seth murdered and dismembered him.  After doing this she took on the role of a goddess of the dead and of funeral rites.  From the corpse Isis impregnated herself and gave birth to the god Horus.  She hid Horus from Seth in the papyrus swamps and later Horus defeated Seth and as a result Isis was revere as the mother and protectress of the pharaohs.  She is the daughter of Geb and Nut and also the sister of Osiris.  She was depicted in human form crowned by a throne or by cow horns enclosing a sun disk.  Somtimes a vulture was included in her crown or sometimes she is depicted as a kite above the mummified body of Osiris. 

Juesaes - a minor Egypitan goddess.

Kebechet - Anubis' daughter. 

Ma'at - The goddess of justice, truth, and the order of the universe.  She sits in the underworld judging the souls that pass through.  Her symbol is the feather.  She was depicted as a woman with an ostrich feather on her head.  She is sometimes considered the daughter of Re and her consort is Thoth. 

Mafdet - A goddess in feline form, possibly the form of a panther.  She was principally noted as a destroyer of scorpions and snakes. 

Mehet-Weret - The sky goddess who takes the form of a cow.  Earlier, she was seen as the waterway of the heaves upon which the solar barque of Re travelled, however she came to be symbolic of the primeval waters from which Re emerged.  This is why she is called the mother of Re.  She has been depicted as a cow with the sun disk between its horns lying on a mat of reeds.

Mehit - a lion-goddess.

Menhit - another lion goddess; "she who slaughters." 

Meret - the goddess of rejoicing and song. 

Meretseger - "She who loves silence" the cobra goddess; a protective deity of the Theban necropolis.  She was believe to live on a mountain overlooking the Valley of the Kings and was worshipped by the workers at the necropolis.  It was believed she poisoned or blinded anyone who commited a crime.  She was depcited as a coiled cobra or a cobra with the head of a woman and a single human arm.  When the necropolis was abandonded during Dynasty XXI (around 1000 BC) her cult died out. 

Meskhenet - The goddess of birth who is present on the judgement day.

Mut - The original mother goddess and wife Amun who lost important when Isis became the primary mother goddess.  She symbolises the element Air and had thousands of children.  Among her children were Neith, Hapi, Chons, and Bast.  The vulture goddess and chief goddess of Thebes. 

Naunet - a primordial goddess who was a member of the Ogdoad of eight primordial deities.  Her consort and male counterpart was Nun.  She personififed the primordial abyss of the underworld. 

Nebtuu - a local goddess

Nechbet - An Upper Egyptian tutelary goddess of the monarch. 

Neith - a creator goddess and goddess of domestic arts and war.  Her symbol is a shield bearing crossed arrows.  At first she was said to be a self-begotten virgin however later she became identified as the consort of Seth and mother of the Sobek.  She was depicted in the form of a woman wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt and bearing a shield with crossed arrows. 

Nekhbet - A vulture goddess and tutelary goddess of Upper Egypt and a protective goddess of childbirth depicted as the nurse of the future monarch during infancy.  She was the protectress of the infant monarch.

Nepthys - Also called Het, Nebt, Nebthet, Nebet Het, and Neb-hut.  She is a guardian of the corpose of Osiris along with Isis.  Nepthys is the goddess of death and mystery and invoked for the element earth.  The daughters of Geb and Nut, sister of Osiris, Isis, and Seth, and somtimes mother of Anubis. 

Nepit - the corn goddess and female counterpart of the corn god Neper. 

Nut - The goddess of the sky and the heavens; her element is air.  She was the daughter of teh Shu and Tefnut and usually depicted as a woman with her elongated naked body arching above Shu and Geb to form the heaves.  Also she appeared as a cow who's body formed the sky and heavens.  She sepeared the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos. 

Pachet - goddess of the desert. 

Qetesh - Depicted as a beautiful nude woman standing or riding upon a lion holding flowers, a mirror, or snakes; usually shown full-face not profile.  She is the goddess of natuve, love, and beauty and is inovked for beauty, self-seteem, matters of the heart, and fertility.

Renenutet - A goddess who took care of children; also called Renenet.  The cobra goddess depicted either as a hooded cobra or in human form with the head of a cobra.  She is assoicated with motherhood and the tutelary deity of the pharaoh.

Renpet - Seen as a woman wearing a palm shoot on her head she is the goddess of spring, youth, and the year.

Repit - A fierce lioness goddess and avatar Aperetiset.  Min and Repit form a triad with their child Kolanthes. 

Sachmet - a goddess of war.

Satet - goddess of first cataract of Nile. 

Sati - Goddess of the elephantine who symbolises fire.

Sekhmet - Originally she was created by Ra from his fire to be a creature of vengeance who would punish humans for wrongdoings.  Instead, she became a loving goddess of peace and compassion and protectress of the righteous.  She is the goddess of wisdom, sunset, death, and destruction and symbolises fire, health, rebirth, and wisdom.  Her symbols are the desert and the lion.

Selket - A scorpion-goddess and helper of women in labour who is depicted as a beautiful woman with a scorion head.  Her scorpions would strike dead the wicked but she saved the lives of the innocent who were stung.  She also helped women in childbirth.

Serket - a scorpion goddess; depicted in human form with a socrotpion-shaped headdress or with a socrpion body and human head.  She was an early tutelary deity of Egyptian monarchs and was associated with mortuary rites who helped guard the canopic jars.  She became a goddess of the dead and was called upon in Egypitan magick to avert venemous stings and bites. 

Seshat - The goddess of writing.  She is also associtead with libraries, letters, historical records, and archives.  When depicted she has a star or rosette above her head, wears a leopard-skin robe, and holds a scpeter made of a notched palm branch which she recored the jubilee years.  She assisted the pahroah mark out the boundaries of a temple.

Shait - a goddess of destiny. 

Sothis - goddess who personified the Dog Star, Sirius.  She became associated with the fertility and prosperity resulting from the annual floods. 

Tefnut - The goddess of clouds and precipitation whos sacred animal is the lion.

Tauret - The goddess of childbirth known as "The Great One."  She was seen a having the head of a hippopotamus, the arms and legs of a lion, the breasts of a woman, the tail of a crocodil, and the swollen belly like that of a pregnant woman.  This strange appearance was to frighten away any spirits that were a threat to the safety of the baby.  Often times she is in the company of Bes the dwarf god.  Egyptian pregnant women in used to waer amulets bearing the goddess' head.  She is also known as Opet, Apet, Taurt, and Taweret.

Thoueris - The hippopotamus goddess of women, childbrith, and fertility.