Amun
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Associated
in a triad with the goddess Mut and with a son Khonsu. A solar god created
in Thebes under the name of Amun Re he became a dynastic god for the whole
of Egypt under the Middle Kingdom. Principal place of worship Karnak/Luxor.
Represented as a man crowned with 2 feathers.
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Anubis
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Illegitamate
son of Osiris and Nephthys. He presides over the embalming rituals and
is the intermediary between the deceased and the judgement hall: the official
guardian of the necropolis.Principal place of worship,Middle Egypt.
Represented as jackal or man with head of a jackal.
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Aten
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Solar
and creative god at the time of Amenhotep IV. Principal place of worship
Tell-el-Armana(middle Egypt).
Represented as a solar disc with long rays ended by hands holding crosses
of life. |
Bastet
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Daughter
of the sun and eye of the star: she incarnates the peaceful features of
dangerous deities, such as the lioness Sekhmet. Principal place of worship
Bubastis (Lower Egypt)
Represented as a cat or a woman with a cats head. |
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Bes
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A
familiar god, patron of homes, pregnant women and children. Principal place
of worhsip: at home and during the greek period in the temple of Sethos
I at Abydos.
Represented as a bearded dwarf, with bow legs and an amiable face frontally
facing. |
Geb
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Son
of Shu, breath of life and Tefnet, heat. Brother and husband of Nut, the
goddess of the sky. Father of Osiris, Horus the elder, Seth and Nephthys.
God personifying the earth.
Represented as a man lying on the ground. |
Ha'py
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Personification
of the Nile river, symbolising inundation, fertility and abundance. Places
of worship: he was adored all along the Nile river.
Represented as an androgynous spirit with hanging breasts and swollen belly. |
Hathor
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Daughter
of Re, considered to be the eye of the sun, wife of Horus (sometimes mother
of Horus). Goddess with several functions: celestial deity. Lady of far
lands. Goddess of joy. Mistress of the Theban necropolis. Lady of the sycamore.
Principal place of worship: Dendera (upper Egypt)
Represented as a woman with two horns surrounding a solar disc, a cow or
a woman with a cows head or ears. |
Horus
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Son
of Osiris and Isis. Husband of Hathor (sometimes son of Hathor). Deity
with several functions: celestial and solar god, direct protector of Egyptian
royalty, representative of the gods on earth. Other deities assimilated
to Horus: Harakhty, Harmakhis, Harun, Harpokrates, Harsiese. Principal
place of worship Edfu (Upper Egypt)
Represented as a falcon or a man with falcon's head.
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Isis
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Daughter
of Geb, the earth, and Nut, the sky. Wife and sister of Osiris. Universal
goddess with many roles, who acts in all circumstances, in the world of
the living as well as in the other world. Principal place of worship Philae
(Upper Egypt).
Represented as a woman with a high back chair on her head. |
Khepri
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Creative
god in Heliopolis incarnating the rising sun. Principal place of worship
Heliopolis (Lower Egypt).
Represented as a beetle or a man with the head of a beetle. |
Khnum
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Associated
with Neith (Esna) and with Satis and Anukis (Elephantine). Deity of creation
(Esna). Patron of the cataract and guardian of the sources of the Nile.
Places of worship Esna and Elephantine (Upper Egypt).
Represented as a ram or a man with the head of a ram. |
Ma'at
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Daughter
of Re. Goddess of justice and truth.
Represented as an ostrich feather or a woman wearing an ostrich feather
on her head. |
Min
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God
of fertility, master of the routes of the oriental desert. Principal places
of worship Akhmin and Qeft, religious festivals held during the harvest
season.
Represented as standing man with an erect penis wearing a narow dress and
raising one of his hands to hold the whip while the other hand is hidden
under the dress |
Mut
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Her
name means mother. Associated in a triad with the god Amun and with the
god-son Khons. Goddess adored as consort of Amun. Principal places of worship
Karnak and Luxor (Upper Egypt).
Represented as a woman wearing a vulture as a headdress with the double
crown of Egypt or as a female falcon.. |
Nephthys
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Daughter
of Geb, the earth and Nut, the sky. Sister of Isis, Osiris, Horus the elder
and Seth, wife of Seth. Protector of the deceased with her sister Isis.
Represented as a woman wearing the two Hieroglyphs of her name. |
Nun
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Primeval
watery abyss representing emptiness and preceding creation in different
cosmogonies, especially in Heliopolis, Hermopolis and Memphis |
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Nut
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Daughter
of Shu, vital breath and Tefnut, heat. Sister and wife of Geb. Mother of
Osiris, Horus the elder, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Goddess who personifies
the sky.
Represented by a woman forming the heavenly vault with her starry body,
or as a huge celestial cow. |
Osiris
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Son
of Geb, the earth and Nut , the sky. Husband and brother of Isis. Principal
place of worship Abydos (central Egypt).
Represented as a mummified man wearing the Aten crown and holding a crook
and the flail across his chest. |
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Ptah
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Associated
with the goddess Sekhmet and the child god Nefertem. Creative god in Memphis,
patron of craftsmen and protector of the Memphis necropolis. Principal place
of worship Memphis (Lowere Egypt)
Represented as a mummiform man with a blue skull cap as headdress. |
Re
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Creative
god in Heliopolis who incarnates the sun at its zenith. Combined with many
deities: Re-Atum, Amun-Re, Re-Harakhty, Sobek Re, Knum-Re. Principal place
of worship Heliopolis (Lower Egypt)
Represented as a man, sometimes with the head of a falcon, wearing the solar
disc on his head. |
Sekhmet
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Associated
with the got Ptah and the son god Nefertem. Goddess incarnating the solar
eye and dangerous forces whose function is to anihilate the enemies of the
sun. Principal place of worship Memphis (Lower Egypt)
Represented as a woman with a lionesses head. |
Seshat
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First
assistant and sometimes the companion of Thoth, the god of writing. Patroness
of scribes and schoolchildren, goddess of science and mathematics, mistress
of the royal records, trustee of the architectural drawings.
Represented as a woman wearing a rosette with seven branches crowned with
two overturned horns. |
Seth
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Son
of Geb, the earth and Nut the sky. Brother of Osiris, Isis, Horus the elder
and Nephthys, Uncle of Horus. Double-faced deity, god of evil and thunder,
responsible for trouble and disorder, but also the protector of the solar
boat.
Represented as a mythical animal or a man with the head of this animal. |
Sobek
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Son
of the goddess Neith, (Sais); associated in triad with the goddess Hathor
and the god son Khons (Kom-Ombo). Lord of the waters, creative god as Sobek-Re.
Principal places of worship Kom-Ombo (Upper Egypt) and Crocodilopolis (el-Fayum
oasis)
Represented as crocodile or a man with the head of a crocodile. |
Tawaret
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The
great goddess who protects women in pregnancy and childbirth. Popularly
worshipped with Bes.
Represented as a female hippopotamus with huge breasts and a lions claws
and crocodiles tail, leaning with one hand on the sign "Saa" -
sign of protection. |
Thoth
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Deity
with many activities, god of the moon, god of scriptures and sciences, messenger
and recorder of the gods, master of knowledge, patron of scribes. Principal
place of worship Hermiopolis (Central Egypt).
Represented as a man with the head of an Ibis or a baboon. |
