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Amun/Imen
by Mirjam [324 words] |
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"Amon, Amun, Imen, Primeval Creator God mentioned in the Pyramid Texts together with his wife Amanuet. Often called "The Hidden..." |
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Amunhotep/Son-of-Hapu
by Mirjam [270 words] |
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"Amunhotep-son-of-Hapu was a courtier, who was employed as a royal scribe and "overseer of all the work of the king" in..." |
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Anubis/Inpew
by Mirjam [186 words] |
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"Anubis/Inpew/Yinepu/Anpu, "Lord of the Hallowed Land", meaning the necropolis. Jackal or dog headed god protecting the..." |
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Anukis/Anuket
by Mirjam [159 words] |
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"Her name means "Embracing Lady", she was probably of Nubian origin and worshipped in the 1st cataract area. The name of..." |
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Atum/Tem
by Mirjam [255 words] |
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"The Creator God of the Ennead of Heliopolis, who rose out of the Primeval Waters by self-creation. In the Pyramid Texts he is said..." |
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Bast
by Mirjam [204 words] |
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"Cat-headed goddess who in early times also connected to Sekhmet, Tefnut, Atum (her father) and Mut. Via Mut she is also connected..." |
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Bes
by Mirjam [214 words] |
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"Bes was a dwarf-god, grotesque in appearance, but benign in nature. He was depicted wearing a plumed crown, was normally bearded..." |
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Geb/Seb
by Mirjam [353 words] |
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"As one of the Heliopolitan Ennead, Geb is a cosmic deity and the eldest child of Shu. The union of Geb with his twin sister Nut..." |
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Hapy/Hapi
by Mirjam [353 words] |
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"The great god of the Nile was called Hapi. In sacred art, he was depicted as a man, somewhat overweight to symbolize abundance, and..." |
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Hathor/Het-Hert
by Mirjam [458 words] |
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"Meaning "the House of Horus". In early times seen as the sky-goddess and mother of Horus, in the New Kingdom she was..." |
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Heka
by Mirjam [368 words] |
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"There are two aspects of this concept. The first one is the name of the deity Heka. The other one is the act of using heka. Heka..." |
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Heket/Heqet
by Mirjam [203 words] |
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"Heket - a water deity in the form of a frog or a frog-headed woman. She made her debut into the Egyptian pantheon in pyramid..." |
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Horus/Her
by Mirjam [517 words] |
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"The falcon, soaring with outstretched wings was already in Predynastic times seen as the sky-god, his eyes were called the sun and..." |
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Imhotep/Imouthes
by Mirjam [301 words] |
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"Imhotep was a high courtier under King Djoser (Dynasty III), who was given the supreme privilege of having his name carved..." |
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Isis and her son Horus
by Mirjam [1313 words] |
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"We are now in the sign of Cancer, which has quite a few things to do with the concept of the Mother. But to be sure, without the..." |
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Isis/Aset
by Mirjam [1129 words] |
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"ISIS and ASET are really two different deities. When the worship of Isis rose, Aset had already been forgotten for hundreds of..." |
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Khepri
by Mirjam [154 words] |
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"'He who is coming into being of himself'. Creator god in the form of a beetle or scarab, mentioned as far back as the 5th Dynasty (c..." |
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Khnum/Khenmew
by Mirjam [256 words] |
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"Worshipped in the form of a ram in early New Kingdom, later as a man with a ram's head. At Elephantine he was guardian of the..." |
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Ma'at/Maae't
by Mirjam [641 words] |
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"The personification of the basic laws of all existence; the concept of justice, truth, order and balance, without which life is..." |
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Min/Menew
by Mirjam [177 words] |
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"His earliest form was a fetish resembling a barbed arrow. Later the written form of his name was recognizable in the sign of the..." |
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Nathor
by Strix d' Emerys [493 words] |
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"This Goddess replica is a composite of several images found scattered from Libya to Egypt Dated in the predynastic period BCE, they..." |
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Neith/Net
by Mirjam [575 words] |
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"Nit (Gr: Neith) Local goddess of Zau (Gr: Sais), known as early as the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Period when her influence..." |
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Nephtys/Nebet-Hewet
by Mirjam [254 words] |
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"Nebt-Het (Gr: Nephtys) meaning "Mistress of the House", which is a title rather than a name, and the same word as her..." |
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Nun/Pesdjet
by Mirjam [214 words] |
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"Nun was the god who personified the primeval waters, the chaos which existed before there was shape and form, the dark liquid mass..." |
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Nut/Newet
by Mirjam [208 words] |
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"Nut, belonging to the Heliopolitan Ennead was the mistress of all heavenly bodies and was thought to be reaching across the sky..." |
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Osiris/Wesir
by Mirjam [684 words] |
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"Osiris, Wesir, Ausar, Usir, meaning "place of the eye". Also Wennefer which means "the eternally good being" or..." |
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Path/Peteh
by Mirjam [570 words] |
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"Ptah, Peteh, 'South of His Wall', 'The Ancient One', worshipped in Mennefer (Gr: Memphis) already in the early dynastic period,..." |
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Ra/Ra'
by Mirjam [421 words] |
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"Ra, or Re, originally meaning the heavenly body itself. An early cult center existed at Heliopolis. From Herakhty, which he joined,..." |
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Sekhmet
by Mirjam [315 words] |
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"Sekhmet, her consort Ptah and their son Nefertem made up the Memphite Triad. Her name meant "the mighty one" and she was..." |
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Sekhmet
by Lynn Bellair [767 words] |
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"Goddess of war and battles, consort of Ptah. Hathor took Sekhmet's shape when she made war on men. Sekhmet is usually portrayed as..." |
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Selket/Serqet
by Mirjam [268 words] |
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"Her name means 'She who causes to breathe' and refers to her power of protecting from, or curing poisonous stings of scorpions and..." |
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Seth
by Mirjam [226 words] |
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"Set, Seth, Sutek, the second son of Geb and Nut, depicted as either an animal with four legs, a curving snout, long ears and an..." |
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Shu
by Mirjam [319 words] |
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"Shu is one of the Heliopolitan Ennead. He is the god of sunlight and air, first recorded in the Old Kingdom, where he was..." |
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Sobek/Sebek
by Mirjam [239 words] |
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"Sobek, Sebek, or (Gr:)Suchos, meaning crocodile. Lord of stretches of water and of fishes. There are several deities for water,..." |
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Sokar/Sokher
by Mirjam [366 words] |
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"Sokar, probably an earth and fertility god in early times. Later he developed into a mortuary deity, his cult center being near the..." |
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Sopdet/Sothis
by Mirjam [247 words] |
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"Sothis was the goddess personifying the dog-star Sirius, the bright appearance of which in the July dawn sky announced the annual..." |
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Tefnut/Tefnet
by Mirjam [230 words] |
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"Tefnut, meaning moisture like rain, dew and clouds, was according to myth created by the primeval god Atum of the Ennead in..." |
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Thoth/Djehuty
by Mirjam [307 words] |
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"Thoth, (Djehuty), the god who is said to have invented writing, the measuring of time, music, magic, art, medicine, mathematics and..." |
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Uadjet/Wadjyet
by Mirjam [244 words] |
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"Uadjet, Wadjet, Uajyt or Edjo, goddess of Buto, "the papyrus-colored one", meaning "the green one", which was a..." |
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Anat
by Mirjam [123 words] |
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"A Syrian deity introduced into Egypt in the Middle Kingdom. She was originally a deity of war, depicted with shield, axe and lance...." |
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Apis
by Mirjam [144 words] |
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"Originally a fertility symbol, he became the sacred bull, or the 'Ba' of the creator god Ptah at the cult center of Memphis. The..." |
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Aten/Iten
by Mirjam [128 words] |
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"The Sun disc itself, first as a heavenly body, later personified as Re. During the Amarna period exalted by Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)..." |
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Banebdjedet
by Mirjam [107 words] |
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"Local ram deity of Djedet (Mendes), meaning 'the spirit, the lord of Djedet'. He incorporated the essence of the world in four..." |
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Bat
by Mirjam [41 words] |
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"Primeval deity from the 7th Upper Egyptian Nome, depicted on the Narmer Palette (ca 3100) with cow's horns and two faces. In the..." |
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Hat-Mehit
by Mirjam [38 words] |
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"A local fish-goddess from the Delta city of Mendes, where the ram-headed BaNebDjedet was the main god. Hat-Mehit was usually..." |
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Hu
by Mirjam [119 words] |
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"Personification of the sound of the creative speech, the principle of Divine Utterance, which together with Heka (divine power) and..." |
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Khonsu/Khensew
by Mirjam [148 words] |
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"Khonsu, "the Traveller", referring to the moon wandering across the sky. Divine child of Amun and Mut, one of the Theban..." |
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Mafdet
by Mirjam [74 words] |
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"'The runner', an early, violent deity in panther form, seen as a manifestation of judicial authority. A personification of the..." |
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Mehet-Weret
by Mirjam [52 words] |
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"'The Great Flood'. Goddess of the primeval flood out of which life emerged and the sun god appeared. She was often depicted as a..." |
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Meretseger/Meresger
by Mirjam [89 words] |
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""She who loves silence" - local goddess of the Valley of the Kings on the Western shore of the Nile at Thebes. She was..." |
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Meskhenet
by Mirjam [133 words] |
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"A goddess of birth, personification of one of the 'birthing bricks' upon which ancient women used to squat when giving birth. She..." |
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Montu/Mentjew
by Mirjam [131 words] |
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"Montu was the falconheaded god of war. From the beginning he was worshipped at Hermonthis, but in the Eleventh Dynasty he was..." |
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Mormyrus
by Mirjam [133 words] |
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"Fishes were often regarded as unclean animals which were forbidden as offerings and food to kings, gods and the priesthood. When..." |
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Mut/Mewet
by Mirjam [115 words] |
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"Mut is the mother of Khonsu and wife of Amun at Thebes. She can be traced back to the Middle Kingdom, but was probably worshipped..." |
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Nebethetepet
by Mirjam [42 words] |
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"A Helipolitan deity, 'Mistress of offering' or 'Mistress of the Vulva', a manifestation of Hathor and sometimes linked to the..." |
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Nefertum/Nefer-tem
by Mirjam [95 words] |
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"The god of fragrance, his form was "the Divine Lotus". When shown as human, he wore a lotus on his head, often with two..." |
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Nekhbet
by Mirjam [110 words] |
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"From the beginning a local goddess in El Kab (Nekheb), later one of the two goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt. She and the goddess..." |
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Onuris/Anhur
by Mirjam [63 words] |
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"'He who brings the distant (goddess). Ancient god of hunting, origin: This is Upper Egypt. Depicted in bearded, human form and with..." |
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Renenutet/Renenet
by Mirjam [133 words] |
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""Lady of the fertile land" and "lady of granaries", a deity of fertility and harvest but she was also a..." |
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Reshef/Reshpu
by Mirjam [62 words] |
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"A Syrian war and thunder god, always depicted with raised weapons, wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt with a streamer flowing..." |
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Satis
by Mirjam [118 words] |
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"Satis, "The Lady of Elephantine" and "She of Sehel (the island)" the giver of water for purification of the..." |
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Seshat
by Mirjam [140 words] |
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"Goddess of writing and measurer of time, referred to as "she who is foremost in the house of books". She measured time..." |
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Sia
by Mirjam [114 words] |
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"Personification of Divine Knowledge or Omniscience, which together with Heka (divine power) and Hu, personification of Divine..." |
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Taweret/Taurt
by Mirjam [82 words] |
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"Hippopotamus goddess, protector of women during childbirth, since Archaic times shown standing upright with human arms and legs, a..." |
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Wenut
by Mirjam [37 words] |
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"Wenut, "the Swift One" ancient minor deity from the predynastic days, from the beginning shown in snake form but probably..." |
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Wepwawet/Wepawawet
by Mirjam [121 words] |
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"Local deity of Lycopolis, depicted as a jackal or a wolf or with a jackal head, often dressed as a soldier and carrying his weapons...." |
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Werethekau
by Mirjam [77 words] |
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"'She who is rich in magic' or 'Great in magic'. A name used for various goddesses, especially Aset and Sekhmet, but she is also a..." |
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