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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Herein I have placed short summaries explaining the
functions of many of the more important gods worshiped in Ancient
Egypt;
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
The bulk of this material is to be found, in a more comprehensive
and scholarly form, in Sir E. A. Wallis Budge's _The Gods of the
Egyptians; or, Studies in Egyptian Mythology_ (Dover, New Tork,
1969 ed. reprinted paperback from original London 1904
printing). However, much of it is collected from various other
source
If you want a bibliography, I will start by recommending all the
works of Mr. Budge; particular titles include _Egyptian Magic_,
_Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection_, _The Egyptian Book of the
Dead_, and _Egyptian Language_. Those particularly
interested in the language of Ancient Egypt
----------------------------------------------------------- Amen
(Amon, Amun, Ammon)
Amen's name means "The Hidden One." Amen was the patron
deity of the city of Thebes from earliiest times, and was viewed
(along with his consort Amenet) as a primordial creation-deity.
He is represented in five forms: (1) a man, enthroned; (2) a
frog-headed man (as a primordial deity); (3) a cobra-headed man;
(4) an ape; (5) a lion. His sacred animals were the goose and the
ram, though he was not depicted as them.
Up to Dynasty XII Amen was unimportant except in Thebes; but when
the Thebans had established their sovereignty in Egypt,
Amen became a prominent deity, and by Dynasty XVIII was termed
the King of the Gods. His famous temple, Karnak, is the
largest religious structure ever built by man. According to E.A.Wallis
Budge's _Gods of the Egyptians_, Amen by Dynasy XIX-XX
was thought of as "an invisible creative power which was the
source of all life in heaven, and on the earth, and in the great
deep,
and in the Underworld, and which made itself manifest under the
form of Ra."
Amen was self-created, according to later traditions; according
to the older Theban traditions, Amen was created by Thoth as one
of the eight primordial deities of creation (Amen, Amenet, Heq,
Heqet, Nun, Naunet, Kau,
During the New Kingdom, Amen's consort was Mut, "Mother,"
who seems to have been the Egyptian equivalent of the "Great
Mother" archetype. The two thus formed a pair reminiscent of
the God and Goddess of other traditions such as Wicca.
SEE ALSO Amen-Ra, Mut, Thoth.
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Amen-Ra
A composite deity, invented by the priests of Amen as an attempt
to link New Kingdom (Dyn. XVIII-XXI) worship of Amen with
the older solar cult of the god Ra.
SEE ALSO Amen, Ra.
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Amset (Imsety, Mestha, Ameshest)
One of the Four Sons of Horus, Amset was represented as a
mummified man. He was the protector of the liver of the deceased,
and
was protected by the goddess Isis.
SEE ALSO Four Sons of Horus, Isis.
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Anubis (Anpu, Ano-Oobist)
Anubis (the Greek corruption of the Egyptian "Anpu")
was the son of Nephthys: by some traditions, the father was Set;
by others,
Osiris.
Anubis was depicted as a jackal, or as a jackal-headed man; in
primitive times he was probably simply the jackal god. Owing to
the
jackal's tendency to prowl around tombs, he became associated
with the dead, and by the Old Kingdom, Anubis was worshipped as
the inventor of embalming, who had embalmed the dead Osiris, thus
helping preserve him in order to live again. Anubis was also
worshipped under the title "Wepuat" ("Opener of
the Ways"), who conducted the souls of the dead to their
judgement, and who
monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from deception
and eternal death.
SEE ALSO Nephthys, Osiris, Set.
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Bast (Bastet)
A cat-goddess, worshiped in the Delta city of Bubastis. A
protectress of cats and those who cared for cats. As a result, an
important
deity in the home (since cats were prized pets) and also
important in the iconography (since the serpents which attack the
sun god
were usually
represented in papyri as being killed by cats).
She was also worshiped as the consort of Ptah-seker-ausar; and is
joined with Sekhmet and Ra (a very unusual
combination of male and female deities) to form
Sekhmet-bast-ra, also worshiped as Ptah-seker-ausar's spouse, and
viewed as a deity of the destructive, purifying power of the
sun.
SEE ALSO Ptah, Ra, Sekhmet.
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Bes
A deity of either African or Semitic origin; came to Egypt by
Dynasty
XII. Depicted as a bearded, savage-looking yet comical dwarf,
shown full-face in images (highly unusual by
Egyptian artistic conventions). Revered as a deity of
household pleasures such as music, good food, and
relaxation. Also a protector and entertainer of children.
However, many texts point to the idea that Bes was a
terrible, avenging deity, who was as swift to punish the wicked
as he was to amuse and delight the righteous.
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Duamutef (Thmoomathph, Tuamutef)
One of the Four Sons of Horus, Duamutef was represented as a
mummified man with the head of a jackal. He was the protector of
the stomach of the deceased, and was protected by the goddess
Neith.
SEE ALSO Four Sons of Horus, Neith.
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Four Sons of Horus
The four sons of Horus were the protectors of the parts of the
body of Osiris, and from this, became the protectors of the body
of
the deceased. They were: Amset, Hapi,
Duamutef, and Qebhsenuef. They were protected in turn by the
goddesses Isis, Nephthys, Neith, and Serket.
SEE ALSO Amset, Duamutef, Hapi, Isis, Neith, Nephthys,
Qebhsenuef, and Serket.
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Geb (Seb)
The god of the earth, son of Shu and Tefnut, brother and husband
of Nuit, and father of Osiris, Set, Isis, and
Nephthys. In the earliest stages of Egyptian history his name was
Geb; in later forms of the language it became Seb, but the old
pronunciation has become so common in popular works on the
subject that it is used herein. His sacred animal was the goose.
He is
generally represented as a man with green or black skin - the
color of living things, and the color of the fertile Nile mud,
respectively. It was said that Seb would hold imprisoned the
souls of the
wicked, that they might not ascend to heaven.
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Hadit: SEE Hor-behedet.
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Hapi (Ahephi)
One of the Four Sons of Horus, Hapi was represented as a
mummified man with the head of a baboon. He was the
protector of the lungs of the deceased, and was protected by the
goddess Nephthys.
SEE ALSO Four Sons of Horus, Nephthys.
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Hathor (Het-heru, Het-Hert)
A very old goddess of Egypt, worshiped as a cow-deity from
earliest times. The name "Hathor" is the Greek
corruption of the
variants Het-Hert ("the House Above") and Het-Heru
("the House of Horus"). Both terms refer to her as a
sky goddess. The
priests of Heliopolis often referred to her as Ra's consort, the
mother of Shu and Tefnut. Like Isis, Hathor was considered by
many
to be the goddess "par
excellence" and held the attributes of most of the other
goddesses at one time or another. Like Isis and Mut,
Hathor was a manifestation of the "Great Mother"
archetype; a sort of cosmic Yin.
She had so very many manifestations that eventually seven
important ones were selected and widely worshiped as the "Seven
Hathors": Hathor of Thebes, Heliopolis,
Aphroditopolis, Sinai, Momemphis, Herakleopolis, and Keset.
The Greeks identified her with Aphrodite, and this is not too far
off, as she represented, in the texts, everything true, good, and
beautiful in all forms of woman; mother, wife, sister, and
daughter; also the patron of artists of every kind, and of joyful
things,
festivals, and happiness. The star Sirius (called by the
Egyptians Sepd) was sacred to her.
SEE ALSO Isis, Mut, Ra, Shu, Tefnut.
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Heru-ra-ha
A composite deity in Crowley's quasi-Egyptian mythology; composed
of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-par-kraat. Apparently without
basis in historical Egyptian mythology, but the name, translated
into Egyptian, means something
approximating "Horus and Ra be Praised!"
SEE ALSO Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Hoor-pa-kraat.
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Hor-akhuti (Horakhty)
"Horus of (or in) the Horizons," one of the most common
titles of Horus, especially when in his function as a solar
deity,
emphasizing his reign stretching from one horizon to the other.
SEE ALSO Horus, Ra, Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
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Hor-behedet (HADIT)
A form of Horus worshipped in the city of Behdet, shown in the
well-known form of a solar disk with a great pair of wings,
usually
seen hovering above important scenes in Egyptian religious art.
Made popular by Aleister Crowley under the abbreviated name
"HADIT", the god appears to have been a way of
depicting the omnipresence of Ra and Horus. As Crowley says in
_Magick in
Theory and Practice_, "the infinitely small and atomic yet
omnipresent point is called HADIT." This is a good
expression of the god
- seen almost everywhere, yet at the same time small and out-of-the-way.
SEE ALSO Horus.
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Hor-pa-kraat (Horus the Child, HOOR-PAR-KRAAT)
Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, distinguished from Horus the
Elder, who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt; but the
worship
of the two gods became confused early in
Egyptian history and the two essentially merged.
Represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair,
sucking his finger.
SEE ALSO Horus.
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Horus (Her)
One of the most important deities of Egypt. Horus as now
conceived is a mixture of the original deities known as "Horus
the Child"
and "Horus the Elder". As the Child, Horus is the son
of Osiris and Isis, who, upon reaching adulthood, becomes known
as
Her-nedj-tef-ef ("Horus,
Avenger of His Father") by avenging his father's death, by
defeating and casting out his evil uncle Set. He then became the
divine
prototype of the Pharaoh.
As Horus the Elder, he was also the patron deity of Upper (Southern)
Egypt from the earliest times; initially, viewed as the twin
brother of Set (the patron of Lower Egypt), but he became the
conqueror of Set
c. 3000 B.C.E. when Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt and formed
the unified kingdom of Egypt.
SEE ALSO Hor-pa-kraat, Horus the Elder, Isis, Osiris, Set. -----
Horus the Elder (Her-ur, Aroueris)
Horus, the patron god of Upper Egypt from time immemorial;
distinguished from Horus the Child (Hor-pa-kraat), who was the
son
of Isis and Osiris; but the two gods merged early in Egyptian
history and became the one Horus, uniting the attributes of both.
SEE ALSO Hor-pa-kraat, Horus.
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Isis (Auset)
Perhaps the most important goddess of all Egyptian
mythology, Isis assumed, during the course of Egyptian history,
the attributes and functions of virtually every other important
goddess in the land. Her most important functions, however, were
those of motherhood, marital
devotion, healing the sick, and the working of magical
spells and charms. She was believed to be the most
powerful magician in the universe, owing to the fact that she had
learned the Secret Name of Ra from the god himself. She was the
sister and wife of Osiris, sister of Set, and twin sister of
Nephthys. She was the mother of Horus the Child (Hor-pa-kraat),
and was
the protective goddess of Horus's son Amset, protector of the
liver of the deceased. Isis was responsible for protecting Horus
from
Set during his infancy; for helping Osiris to return to life; and
for assisting her husband to rule in the land of the Dead.
Her cult seems to have originally centered, like her
husband's, at Abydos near the Delta in the North (Lower Egypt);
she was adopted into the family of Ra early in
Egyptian history by the priests of Heliopolis, but from the New
Kingdom onwards (c. 1500 BC) her worship no longer had any
particular identifiable center, and she became more or less
universally worshiped, as her husband was.
SEE ALSO Amset, Hor-pa-kraat, Horus, Nephthys, Osiris, Ra, Set.
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Khephra (Keper)
The creator-god, according to early Heliopolitan cosmology;
considered a form of Ra. The Egyptian root "kheper"
signifies several things, according to context, most
notably the verb "to create" or "to transform",
and also the word for "scarab beetle". The scarab, or
dung beetle, was considered
symbolic of the sun since it rolled a ball of dung in which it
laid its eggs around with it - this was considered symbolic of
the sun god
propelling the sphere of the sun through the sky. In later
Heliopolitan belief, which named the sun variously according to
the time
of the day, Khephra was the nighttime form of the sun.
SEE ALSO Ra.
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Khonsu (Chons)
The third member (with his parents Amen and Mut) of the great
triad of Thebes. Khonsu was the god of the moon. The
best-known story about him tells of him playing the ancient game
"senet" ("passage") against Thoth, and
wagered a portion of his
light. Thoth won, and because of losing some of his light, Khonsu
cannot show his whole glory for the entire month, but must wax
and wane.
SEE ALSO Amen, Mut, Thoth.
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Ma'at (Ma)
The wife of Thoth, Ma'at's name means "Truth", "Justice",
and perhaps even "Tao". It cannot readily be rendered
into English but
"truth" is perhaps a satisfactory translation. Ma'at
was represented as a tall woman with an ostrich feather in her
hair. She was
present at the judgement of the dead; her feather was balanced
against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led
a pure and honest life. All civil laws in Egypt were held up to
the "Law of Ma'at", which essentially was a series of
old conceptions
and morals dating to the earliest times in Egypt. A law contrary
to the Law of Ma'at would not have been considered valid in Egypt.
SEE ALSO Thoth.
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Min (Menu, Amsu)
A form of Amen depicted holding a flail (thought to
represent a thunderbolt in Egyptian art) and with an erect penis;
his full name was often given as Menu-ka-mut-ef ("Min, Bull
of
his Mother"). Min was worshiped as the god of virility;
lettuces were offered as sacrifice to him and then eaten in hopes
of
procuring manhood; and he was
worshiped as the husband of the goddess Qetesh, goddess of love
and femininity.
SEE ALSO Amen, Qetesh.
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Mut
The wife of Amen in Theban tradition; seen as the mother, the
loving, receptive, nurturing force (similar to Yin) behind all
things,
even as her husband was the great
energy, the creative force (similar to Yang). The word "mut"
in Ancient Egyptian means "mother". She was also the
mother of
Khonsu, the moon god.
SEE ALSO Amen, Khonsu.
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Neith
A very ancient goddess worshiped in the Delta; revered as a
goddess of wisdom, often identified with Ma'at; in later
traditions, the
sister of Isis, Nephthys, and Serket, and protectress of
Duamutef, the god of the stomach of the deceased.
SEE ALSO Duamutef, Ma'at.
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Nephthys (Nebt-het)
The sister and wife of Set, and sister of Isis and Osiris; also
the mother (variantly by Set or by Osiris) of Anubis. She
abandoned
Set when he killed Osiris, and assisted Isis in the care of Horus
and the resurrection of Osiris. She was, along with her sister,
considered the special
protectress of the dead, and she was the guardian of Hapi, the
protector of the lungs of the deceased.
SEE ALSO Hapi, Horus, Isis, Osiris, Set.
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Nuit (Nut)
The goddess of the sky, daughter of Shu and Tefnut, sister and
wife of Geb, mother of Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. Described
by
Crowley in his _Magick in Theory and
Practice_ thus: "Infinite space is called the goddess NUIT."
Nut was generally depicted as a woman with blue skin, and her
body
covered with stars, standing on all fours, leaning over her
husband, representing the sky arched over the earth. Her
relationship to
HADIT is an invention of Crowley's with no basis in Egyptology,
save only that Hadit was often depicted underneath Nuit - one
finds Nuit forming the upper frame of a scene, and the winged
disk Hadit floating beneath, silently as always. This is an
artistic
convention, and there was no marriage between the two in ancient
Egyptian legend.
SEE ALSO Geb, Hor-behedet (Hadit), Shu.
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Osiris (Ausar)
The god of the dead, and the god of the resurrection into eternal
life; ruler, protector, and judge of the deceased, and his
prototype
(the deceased was in historical times usually referred to as
"the Osiris"). His cult originated in Abydos, where his
actual tomb was
said to be located. Osiris was the first child of Nut and Geb,
thus the brother of Set, Nephthys, and Isis, who was also his
wife. By
Isis he fathered Horus, and according to some stories, Nephthys
assumed the form of Isis, seduced him thus, and from their union
was born Anubis.
Osiris ruled the world of men in the beginning, after Ra had
abandoned the world to rule the skies, but he was murdered by his
brother Set. Through the magic of Isis, he was made to live again.
Being the first living thing to die, he subsequently became lord
of
the dead. His death was avenged by his son Horus, who defeated
Set and cast him out into the desert to the West of Egypt (the
Sahara). Prayers and spells were addressed to Osiris throughout
Egyptian history, in hopes of securing his blessing and entering
the afterlife which he ruled; but his popularity steadily
increased through the Middle Kingdom. By Dynasty 18 he was
probably the
most widely worshiped god in Egypt. His popularity endured until
the latest phases of Egyptian history; reliefs still exist of
Roman
emperors, conquerors of Egypt, dressed in the traditional garb of
the Pharaohs, making offerings to him in the temples.
SEE ALSO Anubis, Geb, Horus, Isis, Nephthys, Ra, Set.
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Pharaoh (deified kings)
From earliest times in Egypt the pharaohs were worshipped as gods:
the son of Ra, the son of Horus, the son of Amen, etc.
depending upon what period of Egyptian history and what part of
the country is being considered. It should be noted that prayers,
sacrifices, etc. to the pharaohs were extremely rare, if they
occured at all - there seems to be little or no evidence to
support an
actual cult of the pharaoh. The pharaoh was looked upon as being
chosen by and favored by the gods his fathers. The pharaoh was
never regarded as the son of any goddesses, but rather as the son
of the Queen his mother, fathered by the god, incarnate as his
earthly father. (A few seeming exceptions to this include a
sculpture of Pharaoh Tutankhamen being embraced by his "parents"
Amen and Mut, but the intent here seems to be to compare the king
with their son Khonsu, rather than to actually claim that Mut
was his mother.)
SEE ALSO Amen, Khonsu, Mut.
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Ptah
Worshiped in Memphis from the earliest dynastic times
(c.3000 BC), Ptah was seen as the creator of the universe in the
Memphite cosmology. He fashioned the bodies in
which dwelt the souls of men in the afterlife. Other
versions of the myths state that he worked under Thoth's orders,
creating the heavens and the earth according to Thoth's
specifications.
Ptah is depicted as a bearded man wearing a skullcap,
shrouded much like a mummy, with his hands emerging from the
wrappings in front and holding the Uas (phoenix-headed)
scepter, an Ankh, and a Djed (sign of stability). He was often
worshiped in conjunction with the gods Seker and Osiris, and
worshiped under the name Ptah-seker-ausar.
SEE ALSO Osiris, Seker, Thoth.
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Qebhsenuef (Kabexnuf, Qebsneuef)
One of the Four Sons of Horus, Qebhsenuef was represented as a
mummified man with the head of a falcon. He was the protector
of the intestines of the deceased, and was
protected by the goddess Serket.
SEE ALSO Four Sons of Horus, Serket.
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Qetesh
Originally believed to be a Syrian deity, Qetesh was an important
form of Hathor, specifically referred to in the latter's function
as
goddess of love and beauty. Qetesh was depicted as a beautiful
nude woman, standing or riding upon a lion, holding flowers, a
mirror, or serpents. She is generally shown full-face (unusual in
Egyptian artistic convention). She was also considered the
consort
of the god Min, the god of virility.
SEE ALSO Hathor, Min.
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Ra
Ra was the god of the sun during dynastic Egypt; the name is
thought to have meant "creative power", and as a proper
name
"Creator", similar to English Christian usage of the
term "Creator" to signify the "almighty God."
Very early in Egyptian history Ra
was identified with Horus, who as a hawk or falon-god represented
the loftiness of the skies. Ra is represented either as a
hawk-headed man or as a hawk.
Owing to the fact that the sun was a fire, the Egyptians realized
that in order to travel through the waters of Heaven and the
Underworld, it required a boat, and so Ra was depicted as
traveling in a boat. During the day the boat was a great galley
called
Madjet ("becoming strong") and during the night, a
small barge called Semektet
("becoming weak").
During dynastic Egypt Ra's cult center was Annu (Hebrew "On",
Greek "Heliopolis", modern-day "Cairo"). In
Dynasty V, the first
king, Userkaf, was also Ra's high priest, and he added the term
"Sa-Ra (Son of Ra)" to the titulary of the pharaohs.
Ra was father of Shu and Tefnut, grandfather of Nut and Geb,
great-grandfather of Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys, and great-great-grandfather
to Horus. In later periods (about Dynasty 18 on)
Osiris and Isis superseded him in
popularity, but he remained "Ra netjer-aa neb-pet"
("Ra, the great God, Lord of Heaven") whether worshiped
in his own right or,
in later times, as half of the Lord of the Universe, Amen-Ra.
SEE ALSO Amen, Amen-Ra, Geb, Horus, Isis, Nephthys, Nut, Osiris,
Set, Shu, Tefnut.
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Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Ra-Hor-akhuti)
"Ra, who is Horus of the Horizons." An appelation of
Ra, identifying him with Horus, showing the two as
manifestations of the singular Solar Force. The spelling "Ra-Hoor-Khuit"
was popularized by Aleister Crowley, first in the Book of
the Law (Liber AL vel Legis).
SEE ALSO Hor-akhuti, Horus, Ra.
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Seb: SEE Geb.
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Seker
A god of light, protector of the spirits of the dead
passing through the Underworld en route to the afterlife. Seker
was worshiped in Memphis as a form of Ptah or as part of the
compoun deities Ptah-seker or Ptah-seker-ausar.
SEE ALSO Ptah.
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Sekhmet
A lioness-goddess, worshiped in Memphis as the wife of
Ptah; created by Ra from the fire of his eyes as a creature of
vengeance to punish mankind for his sins; later, became a
peaceful
protectress of the righteous. She was worshiped with Bast and Ra
as a compound deity, Sekhmet-bast-ra, and was considered the
consort of Ptah-seker-ausar.
SEE ALSO Bast, Ptah, Ra, Seker.
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Serket (Serqet, Selket)
A scorpion-goddess, shown as a beautiful woman with a
scorpion poised on her head; her creature struck death to the
wicked, but she was also prayed to to save the lives of innocent
people stung by scorpions; she was also viewed as a helper of
women in childbirth. She is also depicted as binding up demons
that
would otherwise threaten Ra, and she sent seven of her scorpions
to protect Isis from Set.
She was the protectress of Qebhsenuef, the son of Horus who
guarded the intestines of the deceased. She was made
famous by her statue from Tutankhamen's tomb, which was part of
the collection which toured America in the 1970's. SEE ALSO
Isis, Qebhsenuef, Ra, Set.
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Set
Originally, in earliest times, Set was the patron deity of Lower
(North) Egypt, and represented the fierce storms of the desert
whom the Lower Egyptians sought to appease. However, when Upper
Egypt conquered Lower Egypt and ushered in the First
Dynasty, Set became known as the evil enemy of Horus (Upper
Egypt's dynastic god).
Set was the brother of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys, and husband of
the latter; according to some versions of the myths he is also
father of Anubis.
Set is best known for murdering his brother and attempting to
kill his nephew Horus; Horus, however, managed to
survive and grew up to avenge his father's death by
establishing his rule over all Egypt and casting
Set out into the lonely desert for all time.
In the 19th Dynasty there began a resurgence of respect for Set,
and he was seen as a great god once more, the god who
benevolently restrained the forces of the desert; but this was
short-lived and by around Dynasty 20 or 21 Set became once more
dreaded as the god of evil.
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Shu
The god of the atmosphere and of dry winds, son of Ra, brother
and husband of Tefnut, father of Geb and Nuit. Represented in
hieroglyphs by an ostrich feather (similar to Ma'at's), which
symbol he is usually shown wearing on his head. He is generally
shown
standing on the recumbent Geb, holding aloft his daughter Nuit,
separating the two. It was said that if he ever ceased to
interpose
himself between earth and sky, life would cease to be on our
world - a very accurate assessment, it would seem. The name
"Shu"
appears to be related to the root "shu" meaning "dry,
empty." Shu also seems to be a personification of the sun's
light. Shu and
Tefnut were also said to be but two halves of one soul, perhaps
the earliest recorded example of "soulmates."
SEE ALSO Geb, Nuit, Ra, Tefnut.
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Tefnut
The goddess of moisture and clouds, daughter of Ra, sister and
wife of Shu, mother of Geb and Nuit. Depicted as a woman with the
head of a lioness, which was her sacred animal. The name "Tefnut"
probably derives from the root "teftef", signifying
"to spit, to
moisten" and the root "nu" meaning "waters,
sky."
SEE ALSO Geb, Nuit, Ra, Shu.
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Thoth (Tahuti)
The god of wisdom (Thoth is the Greek corruption of the original
Egyptian Tahuti), Thoth was said to be
self-created at the beginning of time, along with his consort
Ma'at (truth). The two produced eight children, of which the most
important was Amen, the hidden one, who was worshiped in Thebes
as the Lord of the Universe.
Thoth was depicted as a man with the head of an ibis bird, and
carried a pen and scrolls upon which he recorded all things. He
was
shown as attendant in almost all major scenes involving the gods,
but especially at the judgement of the deceased.
It was widely believed that Thoth invented the magical and
hermetic arts, and thus the Tarot deck, especially its revision
by
Aleister Crowley, is often referred to as the "Book of Thoth".
SEE ALSO Amen, Ma'at.
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***Egyptian Magick***
is another form that i personaly enjoy working,the rituals can be
a little more complex but the end results
speak for themselves and the deities are great to work with
If anyone would like to contribute any
Egyptian Magickal Workings
'''E-Mail Me The Information To Be Submitted'''
And I will Review it,and your name will be credited to the work,
Blessed Be!!!
