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Egyptian Gods

 

Ab: Grain God

Amon: Wind, fertility, and secrets.  Father of Bast, Neith, Hapi, and Khons. Seen with large curving horns of a Ram.  Shown also as a sphinx.  Known also as Amon-Ra.

Amun: Invisible one.  Symbolizes air.

Anhur: Power of the sun. Symbol of air and fire. Shown as a warrior wearing a headdress with four straight plumes.

Apep: Serpent who tried to destroy the sun everyday.

Aten: Sun Disk

Atum: Sun God. Creator of the universe.

Bes: Dwarf God.  Protective deity of the royal house.  Guard against evil spirits, protects children, kills snakes, wards of misfortune.  Fertility and human pleasure.

Chons: God of the moon.

Duamutef: Protects the stomach of the deceased. Son of Horus.

Geb: God of the earth.  Element of Fire. Green skinned man with goose on his head. Imprisons the souls of the dead.  When he laughed the earth shook.

Gingenver: Fowl god in the form of a goose.  Said to have laid the Cosmic Egg.

Hapi: Deification of the river Nile. Creator of everything.  Also known as Hapy.

Horus: Mighty One Of Transformation.  Son of Isis and Osiris.  All Seeing Eye.  Associated with the falcon.

Imhotep: God of healing.  Once a mortal.

Imseti: Protected the liver of the dead.

Khepua: God of the sun.  Self created.  Symbol is the scarab beetle.  Element of Air. Also known as Kheipi.

Khnum: God of Childbirth

Min: God of fertility, rain and agriculture.  Protector of the road of travelers.  Sexual prowess and fertility.

Monter: God of War.

Osiris: God of life and death.  Ruled the world of men.  Murdered by his brother Set.  Lord of the Dead.

Ptah: Created the cosmos.  Shown as a bald man, scarab, or hawk.

Qebehsenuf: Protected the intestines of the dead.  Son of Horus.

Ra: Sun God.  Supreme deity.  Created the 8 Gods, and gave birth to the human race with his tears.  Human with a falcon or ram head.  God of the underworld.  Cat magick.

Sebek: Crocodile God.  Assisted with the birth of Horus. Also known as Sobek.

Seker: God of light and protector of souls.  Head of a hawk with the body wrapped like a mummy.

Set: God of Darkness and evil.  Murdered his brother Osiris.  Protector of Egypt.

Shai: God of destiny and fate.  Known also as Shait.

Shu: God of Air.  Personifies the Light of the Sun.

Thoth: God of wisdom.  Messenger between the Gods and the God of the Underworld.  God of Moon magick, communication, time, mathematics, scholarship, music, medicine, astronomy, drawing and writing.

Upuat: God of the dead.