Amset: In Egyptian mythology, amset was son of horus; guardian of the south. His canopic jar receives the stomach and large intestines of the dead.
Anubis: See Anubis
Apep: See Apep
Asmodai: In ancient Egyptian mythology Asmodai (Asmodeus) was an evil spirit who killed seven husbands of Sara but was driven away into the uppermost part of Egypt by Tobias. Asmodai is also reprsented as the prince of demons who drove King Solomon from his kingdom.
Hathor: Hathor (Athor, Hat-Her) was an Egyptian goddess symbolised by a cow with a solar disk on its head and haw-feather plumes.
Bastet: See Bastet
Bes: See Bes
Bubastis: In Egyptian mythology, Bubastis was the daughter of Isis. She was represented as having the head of a cat, the animal sacred to her.
Duamutef: In Egyptian mythology, Duamutef was son of Horus and guardian of the East. His canopic jar receives the lungs and heart of the dead.
Geb: See Geb
Hapi: In Egyptian mythology, Hapi was the personification of the Nile. He was son of Horus and guardian of the North. His canopic jar receives the small intestines of the dead.
Harpocrates: Harpocrates was the Egyptian god of silence.
Heqt: Heqt was the frog-headed goddess of ancient Egypt. She was wife of Khnemu. She represented resurrection and was symbolised by a frog.
Horus: Horus was the Egyptian hawkheaded sun god, son of Isis and Osiris, of whom the pharaohs were declared to be the incarnation.
Isis: Isis was an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with serpants and the colour red. She was the goddess of childbirth and fertility, and was wife to Osiris
Khem: In Egyptian mythology, Khem was the god of reproduction and generation. He was identified as Pan by the Greeks.
Khepera: Khepera was the ancient Egyptian god of creation who propelled the sun across the sky.
Memphis: In Egyptian mythology, Memphis was the daughter of Nile. She married Epaphus who founded the city of Memphis and named it after his wife.
Neith: In Egyptian mythology, Neith was the goddess of the heavens.
Nephthys: Nephthys was an ancient Egyptian goddess. Daughter of Seb and Nut, she married Set.
Net: See Net
Osiris: Osiris was the Egyptian god of goodness. He ruled the underworld after being killed by Set.
Qebhsennuf: Qebhsennuf was the ancient Egyptian god of the West. His cannopic jar receives the liver and the gall-bladder.
Ranno: Ranno was the ancient Egyptian god of gardens. he was represented as an asp.
Sekhmet: See Sekhmet
Sati: In Egyptian mythology, Sati was the goddess of the lower heavens (the air).
Serapis: In Egyptian mythology, Serapis was another name for Osiris, and was known as the judge of the underworld.
Set: See Set
Thoth: Thoth was the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom. He was a partner of Nut, and playing draughts with the moon won from her a seventy second part of every day which he compounded into five days which he added to the original Egyptian calendar of 360 days.
Other important figures associated with the show:
Ra
Ra was the god of the sun during
dynastic Egypt; the name is thought to have
meant "creative power", and as a proper name "Creator", similar to English
Christian usage of the term "Creator" to signify the "almighty God." Very
early in Egyptian history.
Owing to the fact that the sun was a fire, the Egyptians realized that in order to travel through the waters of Heaven and the Underworld, it required a boat, and so Ra was depicted as traveling in a boat. During the day the boat was a great galley called Madjet ("becoming strong") and during the night, a small barge called Semektet ("becoming weak").
Ancient Egyptians believed that Ra created the first peoples of the Nile. But then, Ra got bored with them, and left them to fend for themselves. The people then turned to cannibalism, since they didn't know that they were suppose to farm and hunt animals. It was Osiris, the God of the Dead that taught the early Egyptians how they were suppose to live.
In the TV series, Ra is depicted as "The" god, and is so mighty that the mummies draw their sources of power from him in more ways then one: When they shout "With the Strength of Ra!" and the fact that all their vehicles are solar-powered, both show the true feelings of how Egyptians thought about their gods.
The Sphinx
The Sphinx is a monster which appears in both Greek and Eyptian mythology. Both sphinx have the body of a lion and the head of a woman, although most Egyptian Sphinxs had the heads of rams or bulls, and not that of a human. The Greek sphinx has wings, the Egyptian does not. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx posed a riddle to all who seeked to pass. This riddle was at last explained by Edipus, where upon the Sphinx destroyed itself. The Egyptian Sphinx was a goddess of wisdom and knowledge.
Now, the Sphinx is the mummies secret
headquarters. Sphinxs are also shown lining the royal Pharoah's Palace.
The Tree of Life
Anicient Egyptians did believe in a Tree of Life. They believed that the tree could reguvinate life, or destroy it. And so, they tried to keep the tree happy, by getting the lesser gods to feed it and tend to it, so it would never die.
The Afterlife
The Western Gate in the show portrays
the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. All who 
lived
in Egypt, died, and was able to find their way past Ammut found theirselves
in the afterlife aka. The Western Gate.
We know that Egyptians believed in an afterlife because of the goods that were placed in their tombs. Anything that the person held dear to them was buried with them, for use in the other realm.
Ka
That funny little guy that runs around for Scarab. His best trademark is this: He has no body, he's just a couple arms stuck together. But WHAT is he?
In Egyptian religion, when you're born, you are born with two eternal parts, the Ba and the Ka. The ba was the soul, which resided within the body. At the moment of death, the ba would fly away from the deceased and take it's place in the boat of the sun god. The ka was the invisible twin, which was born with the person and stayed with him or her throughout their lifetime. After death, the ka would leave the body of the person and travel to the land of the Afterlife, where it would be tried by Osiris and his minions for its rightful place in eternity..
Still, that doesn't explain why the little guy doesn't have a body :)
