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Maps of Egypt
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Amun | |||||
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God of creation and the wind | |||||
![]() Amun depicted with a tall feather crown | |||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Thebes | ||||
Symbol | two vertical plumes, the ram-headed Sphinx (Criosphinx) | ||||
Parents | none (self-created) | ||||
Consort | Amunet Wosret Mut |
Amun post Amarna | |||||
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God of creation and the wind | |||||
![]() Amun depicted with a tall feather crown | |||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Thebes | ||||
Symbol | two vertical plumes, the ram-headed Sphinx (Criosphinx) | ||||
Parents | none (self-created) | ||||
Consort | Amunet Wosret Mut |
Anubis | |
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God of cemeteries and embalming | |
![]() The Egyptian god Anubis (a modern rendition inspired by New Kingdom tomb paintings) | |
Major cult center | Lycopolis, Cynopolis |
Symbol | the fetish, the flail |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra (early myth) Nephthys and Osiris or Set (later) |
Siblings | Horus (in some accounts) |
Anuket | |
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Goddess of the river | |
![]() The goddess Anuket, depicted as a woman with a tall, plumed headdress | |
Major cult center | Elephantine |
Symbol | the river reeds, |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Khnum and Satis |
Siblings | presumably Heka |
Atum | ||||
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God of creation | ||||
![]() Atum, finisher of the world. | ||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Heliopolis | |||
Symbol | Scarab beetle | |||
Consort | Iusaaset |
Hathor | |
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Goddess of the sky, love, beauty, and music | |
![]() Goddess Hathor in a red dress wears the headress of a sun disk and cow's horn. | |
Name in hieroglyphs | ![]() |
Major cult center | Dendera |
Symbol | the sistrum |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra |
Siblings | Shu, Tefnut, (in some accounts), Bast, Serket |
Consort | Sobek, Horus, Ra ?, Thoth ? |
Hathor | |
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Goddess of the sky, love, beauty, and music | |
![]() Goddess Hathor in a red dress wears the headress of a sun disk and cow's horn. | |
Name in hieroglyphs | ![]() |
Major cult center | Dendera |
Symbol | the sistrum |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra |
Siblings | Shu, Tefnut, (in some accounts), Bast, Serket |
Consort | Sobek, Horus, Ra ?, Thoth ? |
Horus | |
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God of the king, the sky and vengeance | |
![]() Horus was often the ancient Egyptian's national patron god. He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent, or a red and white crown, as a symbol of kingship over the entire kingdom of Egypt. | |
Major cult center | Nekhen, Behdet Edfu |
Symbol | The wedjat eye |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Osiris and Isis |
Siblings | Anubis (in some accounts) |
Consort | Hathor (in one version) |
Isis | |
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Goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility | |
![]() Originally, the goddess Isis was portrayed as a woman, wearing a headress shaped like a throne. | |
Major cult center | Philae, Abydos |
Symbol | the throne, the sun disk with cow's horn, the sycamore tree |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Geb and Nut |
Siblings | Osiris, Set and Nephthys |
Consort | Osiris |
Khepri | |
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God of rebirth and the sunrise | |
![]() Khepri is often represented as a scarab, or a scarab-headed man, holding aloft the morning sun. | |
Major cult center | Heliopolis |
Symbol | the scarab beetle, the blue lotus |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ocean Nun |
Siblings | Atum and Ra |
Khnum | |
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God of creation and the waters | |
![]() the Egyptian god Khnum was usually depicted with the head of a ram. | |
Major cult center | Elephantine |
Symbol | the potter's wheel |
Consort | Satis |
Khonsu as Falcon | |
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God of youth and the moon | |
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Major cult center | Thebes |
Symbol | the moon disk, the sidelock |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Amun and Mut |
Siblings | Monthu |
Khonsu as the child of Amun and Mut | |
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God of youth and the moon | |
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Major cult center | Thebes |
Symbol | the moon disk, the sidelock |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Amun and Mut |
Siblings | Monthu |
Maat | |
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Goddess of truth and justice | |
![]() Maat was both the goddess and the personification of truth and justice. Her ostrich feather represents truth. | |
Major cult center | All ancient Egyptian cities |
Symbol | the ostrich feather |
Parents | Ra |
Consort | Thoth (in some accounts) |
Meretseger | |
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Goddess of tomb builders and Protector of Royal Tombs | |
![]() Meretseger in Egyptian means She who loves the Silence | |
Major cult center | Valley of the Kings, Theban Necropolis |
Symbol | Cobra snake |
Meskhenet | |
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Goddess of childbirth | |
![]() Meskhenet as a woman with a symbolic cow's uterus on her head | |
Symbol | Cow's uterus |
Consort | Andjety |
Min | |
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God of fertility | |
![]() The fertility dark-skinned god Min, with an erect penis and a flail | |
Major cult center | Qift |
Symbol | the lettuce, the phallus |
Monthu or Menthu | |
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God of warfare, the sun and valor | |
![]() the Egyptian war-god Monthu. He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man with two plumes and a sun disk. He was also said to have the head of a bull when enraged. | |
Major cult center | Hermonthis, Thebes |
Symbol | the sun disk, the knife |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Amun and Mut |
Siblings | Khonsu |
Mut | |
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Goddess of queens | |
![]() A contemporary image of goddess Mut, depicted as a woman wearing the double crown plus a royal vulture headdress, associating her with Nekhbet. | |
Major cult center | Thebes |
Symbol | the vulture |
Parents | none (self-created) |
Consort | Amun |
Nefertem | |
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God of healing and beauty | |
![]() the Memphite god Nefertem with a water-lily heardress as a symbol of fragrance and beauty. | |
Major cult center | Memphis |
Symbol | the water-lily |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ptah and Sekhmet |
Siblings | Maahes (in some accounts) |
Neith | |
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Goddess of creation, hunting and the dead | |
![]() the Egyptian goddess Neith - bearing her war goddess symbols, the crossed arrows and shield on her head, the ankh and the Egyptian goad. She sometimes wears the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. | |
Major cult center | Sais |
Symbol | the bow, the shield, the crossed arrows |
Consort | Nun |
Neith with Deshret | |
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Goddess of creation, hunting and the dead | |
![]() the Egyptian goddess Neith - bearing her war goddess symbols, the crossed arrows and shield on her head, the ankh and the Egyptian goad. She sometimes wears the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. | |
Major cult center | Sais |
Symbol | the bow, the shield, the crossed arrows |
Consort | Nun |
Nephthys | ||||
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Goddess of the Night and Lamentation | ||||
![]() Nephthys was normally portraited as a young woman, wearing a headress in the shape of a house and basket | ||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | none specifically, Diospolis Parva | |||
Symbol | the house, mummy wrappings | |||
Genealogy | ||||
Parents | Geb and Nut | |||
Siblings | Isis, Osiris and Set | |||
Consort | Set |
Osiris | ||||
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God of the afterlife | ||||
![]() Osiris, lord of the dead. His green skin symbolizes re-birth. | ||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Abydos | |||
Symbol | Crook and flail | |||
Genealogy | ||||
Parents | Geb and Nut | |||
Siblings | Isis, Set, Nephthys (and Arueris as per Plutarch) | |||
Consort | Isis |
Ptah | |
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God of creation, the arts and fertility | |
![]() Ptah, in the form of a mummified man, holding a scepter or staff that bears the combined ankh-djed-was symbols. | |
Major cult center | Memphis |
Symbol | the djed pillar, the bull |
Parents | none (self-created) |
Consort | Bastet / Sekhmet |
Ra | |||||
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God of the Sun | |||||
![]() In one of his many forms, Ra has the head of a falcon and the sun-disk of Wadjet resting on his head. | |||||
Name in hieroglyphs |
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Major cult center | Heliopolis | ||||
Symbol | The sun disc | ||||
Parents | Ocean Nun |
Sekhmet | |
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Goddess of warfare, pestilence and the desert | |
![]() Sekhmet with head of lioness and a solar disk and uraeus on her head | |
Major cult center | Memphis, Leontopolis |
Symbol | Sun disk, red linen |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra ? |
Siblings | Presumably Hathor, Bast, Serket, Shu, and Tefnut |
Consort | Ptah |
Serket | |
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Goddess of protection and scorpions | |
![]() the Egyptian goddess Serket. She is often depicted as a woman with a scorpion gracing her crown. | |
Symbol | the scorpion |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra |
Siblings | presumably Hathor, Sekhmet, Bast |
Seshat | |
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Goddess of writing and wisdom | |
![]() Seshat, depicted in a leopard skin, holding the hieroglyph for 'year' and writing on a papyrus reed with a stylus pen. | |
Symbol | papyrus scrolls and reeds |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra (in some accounts) or Thoth ? |
Siblings | presumably Maat |
Consort | Thoth (in some accounts) |
Set | |
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God of storms, chaos and the desert | |
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Major cult center | Ombos |
Symbol | The was scepter |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Geb and Nut |
Siblings | Osiris, Isis, Nephthys |
Consort | Nephthys, Tawaret (in some accounts), Anat, Astarte |
Shu | |
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God of the wind and air | |
![]() Shu was sometimes depicted as a man wearing a headdress with tall plumage resting on his head. | |
Major cult center | Heliopolis, Leontopolis |
Symbol | the ostrich feather |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra-Atum and Iusaaset |
Siblings | Tefnut, Hathor, Sekhmet |
Consort | Tefnut |
Shu | |
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God of the wind and air | |
![]() Shu was sometimes depicted as a man wearing a headdress with tall plumage resting on his head. | |
Major cult center | Heliopolis, Leontopolis |
Symbol | the ostrich feather |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra-Atum and Iusaaset |
Siblings | Tefnut, Hathor, Sekhmet |
Consort | Tefnut |
Sobek | |
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God of Nile products and Fertility, Patron of the Army and Military | |
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Major cult center | Crocodilopolis, Faiyum, Kom Ombo |
Symbol | Crocodile |
Sopdet | |
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Goddess of star Sirius | |
![]() Sopdet in red dress, with star on the head | |
Symbol | star |
Consort | Sah (constellation of Orion) |
Taweret | |
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Goddess of childbirth | |
![]() The river goddess Taweret, portrayed as a bipedal hippopotamus with limbs of that of a feline. | |
Symbol | the sa, ivory dagger |
Genealogy | |
Parents | Ra ? |
Siblings | presumably Wadjet and Nekhbet |
Consort | Set, Sobek (in some account), Bes (in some account) |
Thoth | |
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God of wisdom and the moon | |
![]() the Egyptian god Thoth, in one of his forms as an ibis headed man | |
Major cult center | Hermopolis |
Symbol | the moon disk, the papyrus scroll |
Parents | none (self-created), alternatively Ra and Hathor, Set |
Consort | Seshat or Ma'at |
- Egyptian Pantheon
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Khonsu as Falcon