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Egyptian Deities

Early Inhabitants

  • Beetle (Sacred)
  • Bull (God): Apis, Bakhis, Mnevis
  • Cat (Goddesses): Bast
  • Crocodile (God): Sebek
  • Frog (Goddesses): Heqit
  • Goose (Sacred)
  • Grasshopper (Sacred)
  • Hare (God): Un
  • Hawk (Sacred)
  • Hedgehog (Sacred)
  • Hippopotamus (Goddesses): Taurit
  • Ibis (Sacred)
  • Ichneumon (God): Khatru
  • Jackal (God): Anpu
  • Lion (God): Mahes
  • Lynx (God): Maftt
  • Mantis (Sacred)
  • Phoenix (Sacred)
  • Ram (God): Ba
  • Scorpion (Sacred)
  • Serpent (Sacred)
  • Shrew-mouse (Sacred)
  • Swallow (Sacred)
  • Turtle (Sacred)
  • Vulture (Sacred)
  • Wolf (God): Upuat

Dynastic Period

Afura

  • Body of the sun god of night
Aker

  • Earth god of passage
  • Benevolent against snake bites
Am-Heh

  • Minor underworld god
  • Has the head of a hound
  • Inhabits a lake of fire
Amaunet

  • Fertility goddess
Amen

  • Local god of Thebes
  • Represented the powers of generation and growth in the unborn child
Ami-ut

  • God of the dead
Ammut

  • Goddess of the underworld
  • Sat beside forty-two juror gods
Amset

  • One of the four sons of Horus who protected the viscera of the dead
Amun

  • God of mystery, healing, justice, and welfare of the state
  • Husband of Mut
Amunet

  • Goddess of Mystery and fertility
An-her

  • Ancient god of This
Andjety

  • Minor underworld god
  • Responsible for rebirth in the afterlife
Angit

  • With Satit and Khnemu, the great triad of Elephantine and the First Cataract
Ani

  • Form of the moon god
Anpu (Anubis)

  • Divine physician
  • Guardian of all mummies
Anti

  • God of ferrymen
Anubis

  • God of the dead and embalming
  • Protector of tombs
  • Son of Osiris
Anzety

  • God of Busiris
Apep

  • Arch enemy of all the solar gods
Apophis

  • Demon of darkness
As

  • Local fertility god
  • God of oases and other fertile areas of the desert
Asar

  • (See Osiris)
Asar-Hapi

  • Name of the deified Apis bull
Ast

  • (See Isis)
Asten

  • Companion of Thoth
Aten

  • God of the sun, light, providence, and life
Atum

  • First-born of the gods
  • Son of Nun
Baba (Beb)

  • First-born son of Osiris
Bast

  • Mother goddess of the city of Bubastis
  • Goddess of life, fruitfulness, and cats
Bekha

  • Bakhis bull
Bes

  • Dwarf god –
  • God of music and dancing –
  • Protector of women in childbirth
  • Protector against terrors
Buto

  • God who guarded Lower Egypt
Chonsu

  • God of the moon
Dunanwy

  • Falcon god
  • One of the forms of Horus
Geb

  • Son of Shu and Tefnut
  • Father of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys
  • One early form of the earth god
Hap

  • The Apil bull
  • Brother of Amset
Hapi

  • God of the Nile
Hathor

  • Goddess of love, mirth, and joy
  • Goddess of the sky
  • Protector of infants and consoler of the dead
Heqit

  • One of the oldest mother goddesses of Egypt
  • Goddess of fertility and rebirth
Heh

  • God of the immeasurable
Hehit

  • Goddess of the immeasurable
Her

  • God of the sky
  • Sun god
Her-em-aakhut

  • One form of the sun god
Her-khenti

  • The unborn Horus, or sun god
Her-p-khart

  • Horus the Child
Her-sa-Ast

  • Horus, son of Isis
Her-sakhuti

  • Sun god in the two horizons
Herur (Horus the Elder)

  • One of the oldest gods
  • Personifies the face of the sky
Hether

  • Goddess of love, beauty, and fertility
Hotep

  • Divine entity of contentment and happiness
  • Rules over abundance in the beyond
Horus

  • God of the sky and the sun
  • Son of Osiris and Isis
Imhetep

  • Deified native of Memphis
  • Great architect and very wise and learned man
Ini-Herat

  • Goddess of mediators, diplomats, statesmen, and conciliators
Isis

  • Sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus
  • Patroness of loving wives and mothers
Kek

  • God of darkness
Keket

  • Goddess of darkness
Khensu

  • Moon god
  • One of the great triad of Thebes
Khentimentiu

  • God of the destiny of the dead
Khepera

  • Type of manner about to come into a state of activity
Khepri

  • God of becoming
Khnemu

  • Builder of the universe and the first man
Khnum

  • God of potters
Khons

  • God of the moon
Maat

  • Goddess of physical and moral law
  • Associate of Thoth
  • Daughter of Ra
Meh-urit

  • One of the sky goddesses
Menhit

  • One of the lion goddesses
Mentu

  • God of war of Hermonthis and Thebes
Menu

  • God of generation and fertility
Mer-segerit

  • One of the Thebian goddesses
Merit

  • Goddess of inundation
Merur

  • Mnevis bull
Meskhenit

  • Goddess of the birth-chamber





Min

  • God of plant life and generative powers
Month

  • God of Thebes
Mut

  • Mother goddess of Thebes
  • Wife of Amen-Ra
  • Queen of heaven
Nebthet (Nephthys)

  • Sister and the wife of Set and the mother of Anpu
Nefer-Temu

  • Son of Ptah and Sekhmit of Memphis
Nefertum

  • God of the sun
Nehebka

  • Benevolent serpent goddess
Neith

  • Mother of the gods
Nekhebit

  • Old mother goddess of Upper Egypt
  • The great protector of pregnant women
Nenu (Nu)

  • Primeval watery mass in which Khepera existed
Nephthys

  • Goddess sister of Isis and Osiris
  • Sister-wife of Seth
Net

  • Great mother goddess of the city of Saïs
  • Gave virgin birth to the sun god
Nun

  • God of the ocean
Nunet

  • Goddess of the ocean
Nut (Nent)

  • Great sky goddess
  • Sister and wife of Geb
Onuris

  • Warrior god
Osiris

  • King of the gods
  • God of the flood, of agriculture, of law, of learning
  • Judge and god of the dead
  • Son of Geb and Nut
  • Brother and husband of Isis
Pakhit

  • Local cat goddess
Ptah

  • God of law and justice, of metal-workers, and of sculptors
  • First member of the triad gods of Memphis
  • Assisted in the creation of the world
  • Son of Nun
Ptah-Seker

  • Sun god of night
  • God of death
Ptah-Seker-Asar

  • Triad of the gods of death
  • Triune god of resurrection
Ptah-Taten

  • Creator of the matter of which the world was formed
Qebhsenuf

  • Brother of Amset
Ra

  • Sun god of Heliopolis
  • Head of the Company of Gods
  • Represented the noonday sun
Renenutet

  • Goddess of abundant harvests
  • Snake goddess
Rennit

  • Goddess of birth and the harvest
Reshef

  • God of war
Sakhmet

  • Mother goddess of Memphis
  • Goddess of war
  • Daughter of the sun god
Seker

  • Ggod of death and the underworld of Memphis
Sekhmit

  • Wife of Ptah of Memphis
Selkis

  • Goddess of scorpions
  • Guardian of coffins
  • Beauty which would last forever
Sept (Sothis)

  • Goddess of the dog star (Sirius)
Serapis

  • God who cured the sick
Serqit

  • Scorpion goddess
Seshet

  • Goddess of writing and literature
  • Associate of Thoth
Set (Setesh)

  • Brother of Osiris and son of Geb and Nut
  • Adversary of all the solar gods
  • God of chaos, adversity, and destruction
Shai

  • God of luck or destiny
Shu

  • God of light, heat, air, and dryness
  • Supported the horizon and the solar disc on his shoulders
  • Brother and husband of Tefnut and father of Geb and Nut
Sobek

  • Crocodile god of Faiyum
  • Son of Neith
Sokaris

  • God of the dead
  • Assimilated with Ptah and Osiris as Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
Soped (Sopdu)

  • Warrior god
  • Protector of the frontiers of Egypt
Sothis

  • Goddess, the personification of the starSirius
Tanen (Ta-Tenen)

  • One of the cosmic gods
Taurit

  • One of the oldest mother goddesses of Egypt
Tefnut

  • Sister and wife of Shu
  • Mother of Geb and Nut
  • Goddess rain, dew, heat, and moisture
Tehuti (Thoth)

  • God of time, the moon, writing, science, medicine, and wisdom
  • Scribe of the gods
  • Inventor of writing, mathematics, alchemy, and magic
Tem (Atmu)

  • Ancient solar god
  • Head of the Great Company of Gods
Theoris

  • Goddess of women in childbirth
  • Protectress of babies
Thoth

  • Ibis-god
  • Inventor of writing and master of learning in general
  • Mediator of the gods
Tuamutef

  • Brother of Amset
Uatchit

  • One of the oldest mother goddesses of Lower Egypt
Un-Nefer

  • Hare god
Up-uatu

  • Wolf god –
  • Associate of Anpu
Uraeus

  • Cobra-goddess
  • Guardian deity of the forehead of the gods and the king
  • Guardian of the red crown
Wadj Wer

  • Fertility god –
  • Associated with the richness of the Nile delta waters
Wadjet

  • Serpent goddess
  • Guardian deity of Lower Egypt
Wepwawet

  • God of passage
  • Depicted as a jackal
  • Born beneath a tamarisk tree
  • Opened the way to the womb
Wasret

  • Localized guardian goddess
  • Early consort of Amun
Yah

  • Minor underworld god
  • Represented in the form of man, falcon, or ibis

Deities of Foreign Origin

Aasit (Syrian-Hittite) – A goddess of battle

Ahu (Sudani)

Antat (Syrian-Hittite) – A goddess of conception

Anthreta (Syrian-Hittite) – A goddess associated with Sutekh

Astharth (Ashtoreth) (Syrian-Hittite) – The mistress of horses and the lady of the chariot

Bar (Baal) (Syrian-Hittite) – A god of battle

Bes (Sudani)

Kent (Syrian-Hittite) – The lady of heaven

Meril (Sudani)

Qetesh (Syrian-Hittite) –
Mistress of the gods

Reshpu (Syrian-Hittite) – A god of war and of lightning

Sutekh (Syrian-Hittite) – Equivalent of Set

Tetun (Sudani)

Bibliography

  1. Baumgartner, Anne S. A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Gods. New York: Wing Books, 1984.
  2. Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Dwellers on the Nile. New York: Dover Publications, 1926, 1977.
  3. Jordan, Michael. Encyclopedia of Gods. London: Kyle Cathie, 2002.
  4. Antelme, Ruth Schumann and Stéphane Rossini. Becoming Osiris. Trans. from the French by Jon Graham. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1998.




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