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Ammon
Also called Amon, Amun, Ra or Re (the Sun), or Amun-Ra, Amon-Ra or Amen-Ra (the Great Sun). The king of the gods during the Theban dynasties, and the god of fertility. He was part of the Theban Triad, along with Mut and Khonsu. Usually associated with the wind, or things hidden. He was represented as a human body with a ram's head and large, curving horns. (Ammonia was originally extracted from camel dung near his shrine in Libya and got its name from the close association.)

Anubis
The jackal-headed god responsible for the processes of embalming and the protection of cemeteries. He guided the deceased through the underworld to the throne of Osiris.
Bast
Bast (Bastet, Pasch, Ubasti, Ba en Aset) is the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats, dawn,
civilization, home, plenty, enlightenment, art, music, dance, creation, birth, fertility, sex,
physical pleasure, truth, music, dance, the arts, the moon, and the rising sun. In ancient
artwork, Bast is typically shown as a beautiful girl with the head of a cat. She is often shown as fully cat. Bastet is the name of Bast when she is in full cat form. She is the possessor of the Utchat, the Eye of her twin brother Horus.
Hathor
The cow goddess. Wife of the hawk-god Horus. Daughter of the sun god Ra. Goddess
of sexual love, joy, music, and dance. In architecture she is usually pictured with a human face and bovine ears (see left), in paintings as an elegant woman wearing a crown of cow-horns with the sun disk between them or as a cow suckling a young pharoah with her udder of divine milk.
Horus
"Horus" is the Latin translation for the Greek "Horos", which was the Greek name for
the Egyptian "Hor"(!!!). Horus is the falcon-headed solar god. His mother was Isis who
conceived him by her magical powers from the body of his murdered father Osiris. He
eventually emerges the victor in a contest with Seth as to whom is the legitimate heir to
the throne of Egypt.

Isis
She is the "mother of all creation". A daughter of Geb and Nut, she was the faithful
wife of her brother Osiris. She became universally worshipped, is associated with love, motherhood, marital devotion, healing, eternal life, and the casting of magical spells and
charms. Isis is the goddess of day, while her twin sister, Nephthys, is the goddess of night.
Her sacred symbol is an amulet called the tyet. She is the mother of Horus.

Ma'at (Maet, Mayet) is the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and the underworld, and wears the feather, symbol of truth, on her head. She passed judgement over the souls of the dead in the Judgement Hall of Osiris. The "Law of Ma'at" was the basis of civil laws in ancient Egypt.

Mut
The vulture goddess. She was usually depicted with a woman's body
having a vulture's head. She is involved with Isis in the myth of the resurrection of Osiris where she replaced his head and heart, and
collected the flesh that had been sliced from his body. Alternate forms
of her name include: Mauit, Mooth, Mout, Muth.

Osiris
He was the first child of Geb and Nut. Osiris, (a tall, handsome, charismatic man) succeeded his father Geb as the reigning power of Egypt when Geb retired into the heavens. He married his sister, the beautiful Isis, when he became king. He civilized the Egyptians, persuaded them to give up cannibalism, and taught them farming, and the pleasures of music, and provided them a legal code to live by. His evil brother Set, who was as ugly as he was evil, and who hated his handsome brother because Osiris had fathered a child with Set's wife, Nephthys (another sister!) gathered many allies and planned how to kill Osiris. Set hosted a banquet ostensibly to honor his brother. After much food and much wine, Set had a beautifully ornate chest brought into the room and said it would go to the person who best fit within it.
When it was Osiris' turn to try and he had climbed in, Set and his toadies slammed the lid shut and welded it tight with lead. Osiris suffocated, the chest was thrown into the Nile, and Set became king of Egypt.

Ptah
He was the Egyptian god of fire and the creator, who conceived the universe in his mind and spoke it into existence with his tongue. His figure is bandaged in a linen wrap like a mummy, and his head is shaven like a priest. His wife wasthe lioness goddess Sakhmet.

Picture is a detail from the Papyrus of Ani (british Museum)

                                  Ra (Re), the sun god, is pictured with the falcon-head of Horus and the sun disk
                                  and uraeus*. He is wearing mummy wrappings for his night voyage through the
                                           twelve provinces of the underworld. He is normally accompanied by seven cows
                                  and a bull which provide him with his nightly sustenance. Mankind and animals
                                  were said to have come into being from his tears.
                                  *Uraeus: The sacred serpent, symbol of sovereignty depicted on the headdress of
                                  some deities.

Sekhmet

                                The Egyptian goddess who was called "The Beloved of Ptah". She was usually
                                pictured as having a woman's body with the head of a lioness, and seated on a
                                throne. She is the goddess of war and battle. She was part of the Memphis triad:
                                She, as wife to Ptah, Ptah, and their son Nefertum. She had many titles, such as:
                                Goddess of Fire and Heat, Mistress of the Gods, Goddess of Vengeance, Lion
                                Goddess, The Mighty One of Enchantments.

The Egyptian scorpion goddess of fertility and the underworld. Wife of Ra. She is usually pictured as a woman wearing a scorpion on her head or as scorpion with a woman's head. Alternate forms of her name: Selkhet, Selquet, Serket, Serkhit.