Gods and Goddesses

Gods:

Amun:

Amun-Ra was the king of the gods in ancient Egypt. He and Amunt were from the gods who were known to the Egyptians in very early times. He was the creator of all things. He was seen in five forms: The first form is of a man seated on a throne, and holding in one hand the scepter and in the other hand the symbol of life. That form refers to nine deities and Amun-Ra was one of the nine. The Second form is a man with the head of the frog. The third one is a man with the head of a uraeus. The fourth is an ape. And the fifth is a lion couching upon a pedestal.

Anibus:

He was the Egyptian god of the dead. He was regarded in Egypt as the son of Osiris and Nepthys, or the son of Re and Nepthys. The center of his cult was in Cynopolis in Upper Egypt. He was considered the inventor of embalming, the guardians of the tombs and the judge of the dead. He was a messenger from the gods to the humankind. His role was to lead the souls of the deceased to the house of Osiris, and to take each person's heart and weigh it against the feather of truth. He was usually in the form of a man with the head of a jackal, and also as a crouching jackal. So he was called the "jackal god".

Aton:

Sun's disk Aton is the physically visible sun. Aten had a higher level of worship by the beginning of Akhenaten's father reign. In Akhenaten's reign he declared that all other names are invalid and their priests are useless.

Geb:

The mountains were said to be his bones. Geb was the son of Shu and Tefnut. He was the twin brother of Nut, and also her husband. He was father of Osiris and Isis, Seth, Nephthys. As a vegetation god he was shown with green plants on his body. As the "Father Earth" god he was shown below Nut. He was often pictured with a goose on his head or as a goose. He was called "The Great Cackler". It was said that he laid the egg from which the sun hatched.

Hapy:

He was the god "Runner". He was one of the "four sons of Heru". He was equated with the element of air due to his association with Nebt-het and the direction of east. He was depicted as the god protecting the throne of Wesir in the underworld. He was found in the form of a mummified man with a baboon head on the funerary furniture, especially the canopic jars which were jars that had in it the organs of the dead.

Horus:

He was the sky god, the god of light and goodness. He was the son of Osiris and Isis. After Osiris was murdered by his brother Set, Horus avenged his father's death by killing his uncle. He was in the form of a hawk headed man or in the form of a fully hawk. He was worshipped as Mekhenti-irry which meant "He who has on his brow two eyes"; the sun and moon represented his eyes. In that form he was considered the god of the blind. Later forms of him were found as anything from victory personified to the son of the Lord of the Dead, Horus-Sa-Aset, and that form became the most popular form in Egypt.

Osiris:

He was the legendary ruler of pre dynastic Egypt, and god of the underworld and judge of the dead. He was the first born son of Geb and Nut. He was born in Thebes. He embodies the black land of the two lands. In a famous myth he was murdered by his evil brother Set. As king of Egypt, Osiris taught his people law, agriculture, religion, and other blessings of civilization.

Ra:

He was the sun god. He was in the form of a human body with the head of a hawk and crowned with a solar disk. His chief symbols were the sun disk and the obelisk. He was the father of Shu and Tefnut. And he was grandfather of Geb and Nut. He was the most important god in Egypt in most of Egypt's history. He was called the creator and father of all things. He was considered the creator and the controller of the whole universe. Different Egyptian gods were identified with him like Amon. Ra's chief temple was in Heliopolis.

Seth:

He was the lord of Upper Egypt. He was the god of evil, destruction, thunder and storm. Seth was the son of Geb and Nut. He was the brother of Nepthys, Osiris and Isis. And he was the husband of Nepthys, or sometimes the husband of Taurt. He was in the form of a man with the head of an unknown animal. Sometimes he was in the form of a crocodile. He was in the form of a hippopotamus or a black pig in his battles with Horus. Seth was the one who tricked and murdered Osiris in Osiris's legend.

Goddesses:

Bastet:

Sun's Bastet the "devouring lady", she was a cat headed goddess. She was the goddess of joy, music and dancing. She was the daughter of Re. The town of Bubastis was the cult center of the goddess Bastet. The valley temple of the pyramid of Khafre had a portal of Bastet and also statues of Bastet with the king of Egypt. In the ancient Greek period, she was equated with the virgin huntress Artemis, and considered the protectress of children, pregnant mothers and musicians.

Hathor:

She was the goddess of the sky, the queen of heaven and the goddess of love and beauty. She was also the goddess of death; she offers comfort to the newly dead. She was in the form of a woman with cow's horns between which hangs a solar disk. Sometimes she was in the form of a cow. And also she was represented as a cow headed woman. She was the daughter of Ra, and the wife of Horus.

Isis:

She was the throne goddess of Egypt. She was the power that makes kings. She was the goddess of fertility and motherhood. Isis was Nut and Geb's daughter. She was Osiris's wife and sister. And she was Horus's mother. Isis was represented as a human often wearing the horns of a cow. In earliest time she was depicted as the mistress of magic. In later periods she was associated with other names especially Hethert.

Maat:

She was the goddess of truth and justice. She was depicted as a woman with wings, or as a woman with a single white ostrich feather bound to her head. Her symbol was the feather. The word Maat translates "that which is straight". In ancient Egypt she was the patroness of judges, magistrates and all court officials. She was sometimes called the "eye of Ra" or the "daughter of Ra". It also played an important role in the book of the dead. The person's heart was weighed against the feather of Maat.

Sekhmet:

She was a lion headed goddess. She was the goddess of war and battles; she was the destroyer of the enemies of Ra and Osiris. She embodied all aspects like light and dark, birth and death. She was a sun goddess; she represented the burning, destructive heat of the son. Her name means the "powerful". From her titles "Lady of the place of the beginning of time" and "The one who was before the gods were".

Tefnut:

She was responsible for order, justice, time, heaven and hell, weather. Sekhmet was in the form of a woman with a lion's head, and her head there was a solar disk. Sometimes Tefnut was shown as a fully lion along with her brother. God Atum gave birth to his son Shu and his daughter Tefnut. She was the sky spittle goddess, she helped support the sky. Tefnut embodies the concept of airborne moisture, clouds, dew or rain. She was one of the great nine who sat in judgment of the dead. She was sometimes equated with Nit and Nut.

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