Egyptian Deities
18:02 May 05 2007
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Aker- double lion god, guardian of sunrise and sunset
Amun- the hidden one, god of wind, later he was the god of fertility, and the creator of everything, seen as a bearded man
Ammut- the devourer, female demon, judge of the souls of the dead, devoured the souls of those whose heart weighed more than the feather of truth and justice, head of crocodile body of lion and back of a hippo
Anubis- guardian of the cemetery, supervised the weighing of the soul, jackal headed
Aten- lord of earth, lord of the heavens, no physical appearance
Bastet- the tearer, sun goddess, represents warm life giving warmth
Geb- great cackler, represents the Earth, vegetation god, represented by goose
Hapi- father of the gods, god of the Nile, known as a man colored blue or green
Horus- he who is above, god of moon and sun, seen as a falcon
Hathor- lady of heaven, sometimes goddess of sky, sun, moon, north, south, east, west, moisture, fertility, and agriculture
Isis- the throne, one of the earliest most important goddesses
Khepri- he who comes into existence, god of sunrise, a man with a scarab on his head
Khunum- bird of the cool water, god of water, ram headed man
Maat- goddess of truth, represents law, order, and justice, a feather of hers is weighed against the soul of mortals
Min- chief of heaven, sky god
Mut- lady of heaven, queen of all gods, woman wearing a vulture headdress
Neith- great goddess, goddess of hunt and the war goddess, woman wearing a red crown
Nut- the sky, the mother of all things, woman stretching from horizon to horizon
Osiris- king of the dead, supreme god and the judge of the dead
Ptah- the opener, she represents the sun right before it has risen
Ra- the father of gods, he was from very early times the god of the sun
Sekhmet- the mighty one, she was the goddess of the destructive sun, of intense heat, fire and scorching, she was also the goddess of war
Seshat- lady of the library, goddess of reading, writing, architecture, and arithmatic
Seth- the lord of upper Egypt, the early god of wind and storms
Sobek- he who causes to be fertile, ferocious god, head of a crocodile and the body of a man
Taurt- Gaurdian of woman and little girls, seen as a hippo with the hind legs of a lion
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