Amunet
Amunet was a fertility goddess of Upper Egypt.

Anuket
Anuket was an ancient Egyptian goddess of the Nile, who originated from Nubia.

Bastet
Bastet is cat goddess venerated in the town of Bubastis in Lower Egypt.

Bat
Bat was an ancient cow goddess.

Hathor
Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess of love, music and dance.

Hatmehyt
Hatmehyt was an Egyptian goddess of fish, originally a deification of the Nile River.

Hauhet
Hauhet was one of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history, the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad.

Heqet
Heqet was an Egyptian goddess of childbirth, creation and fertility.

Isis
Isis is the goddess of motherhood and fertility.

Kauket
One of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness.

Ma’at
Ma’at was the goddess of truth, justice and harmony.

Mafdet
Mafdet is the goddess of justice and judgment.

Menhit
Menhit was the goddess of war origin from Nubia.

Meretseger
Meretseger was a cobra goddess who was the protector and guardian of the Valley of the Kings.

Meskhenet
Meskhenet is an ancient Egyptian god who known as the goddess of childbirth.

Mut
Mut was the great mother goddess of Egypt.

Naunet
Nun was the waters of chaos and Nun was the only thing existed on earth before there was land.

Neith
Neith was an ancient goddess of war and weaving.

Nekhbet
Nekhbet is the goddess of vulture.

Nephthys
Nephthys was a protective goddess of the dead.

Nut
Nut was known as the goddess of sky.

Pakhet
Pakhet was the Egyptian goddess of war.

Qetesh
Qetesh was a goddess of ecstasy and sexual pleasure, originally from Syrian.

Satis
Satis is the goddess of the nile and fertility.

Sekhmet
Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian goddess of war.

Serket
Serket was the goddess of scorpion.

Seshat
Seshat is an ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing from Lower Egypt.

Soqdet
Soqdet was one of the important goddess of star ‘Sirius’, the Dog star to ancient Egyptian astronomers.

Tawaret
Tawaret was the Egyptian goddess who protects women during pregnancy and childbirth.

Tefnut
Tefnut was the Egyptian goddess of moisture.

Wadjet
Wadjet was the Serpent Goddess since the predynastic period.

The ancient Egyptians religion contains many deities and personified aspects of nature. Egyptians saw the actions of the gods behind all the elements and forces of nature. However, they did not believe that the gods merely controlled these phenomena, but that each element of nature was a divine force in itself.

These deities were worshipped with offerings and prayers, in local and household shrines as well as in formal temples managed by priests. Different gods were prominent at different periods of Egyptian history, and the myths associated with them changed over time.

The religion also contained many beliefs such as the divinity of the pharaoh, which helped to politically unify the country, and had a highly developed view of the afterlife for an eternal life after death.

Click on the name of god or goddess below to find out more information about the mythology, patronage, myth, depiction and temple of it.

Egyptian Goddess

Ammit
Ammit is an ancient Egyptian funerary god, referred as the devourer of the wicked who was the personification of the concept of truth, balance, and order. She dwelt in the Hall of Ma’at, those who were heavy with wrongdoing were given to Ammit for her to devour.

Amunet
Amunet was a fertility goddess of Upper Egypt. She is one of the eight primeval gods in the Ogdoad, forming the female counterpart of Amun, whose name means “The Hidden One” as the invisible air and wind.

Anuket
Anuket was an ancient Egyptian goddess of the Nile, who originated from Nubia. She was also given a title as “Lady of Embracing” or “She Who Embraces”. Anuket was worshipped as the “Nourisher of the Fields”.

Bastet
Bastet is cat goddess venerated in the town of Bubastis in Lower Egypt. Bastet was a Goddess of Protective and thus sometimes depicted as a fierce lioness.

Bat
Bat was an ancient cow goddess. Bat was also known as the “Ba of two faces” that represent her ability to see the past and into the future. Bat also given other titles such as “She Who Lows” and “Great Wild Cow”.

Hathor
Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess of love, music and dance. Hathor was also the goddess of happiness, fertility and a protector of all women. She was shown as the mother goddess of the whole world.

Hatmehyt
Hatmehyt was an Egyptian goddess of fish, originally a deification of the Nile River. She was also known as a goddess of life and protection.

Hauhet
Hauhet was one of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history, the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad. She was the god of infinity and time, the god of long life and eternity.

Heqet
Heqet was an Egyptian goddess of childbirth, creation and fertility. She was given the title “She who hastens the birth” and midwives often called themselves the “Servants of Heqet”.

Isis
Isis is the goddess of motherhood and fertility. She was worshipped for motherhood, love, magic, children, marital devotion, fertility, wealthy, medicine, protection and peace.

Kauket
One of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness.

Ma’at
Ma’at was the goddess of truth, justice and harmony. She represents the ideals of law, order, moral and cosmic order. She was the wife or the counterpart of the god of wisdom, Thoth and their attributes are same.

Mafdet
Mafdet is the goddess of justice and judgment. She was seen as the protector of the king’s chambers and the protector of venomous animals such as scorpion and snake.

Menhit
Menhit was the goddess of war origin from Nubia. She also known as god of lioness, due to the aggressive characteristic associated to warfare.

Meretseger
Meretseger was a cobra goddess who was the protector and guardian of the Valley of the Kings. She was considered to be both a dangerous and merciful goddess.

Meskhenet
Meskhenet is an ancient Egyptian god who known as the goddess of childbirth. She presided over and assisted with childbirth. After bringing a baby safely into the world, Meskhenet takes a decision on its destiny at the time of birth.

Mut
Mut was the great mother goddess of Egypt. She was referred as the great “world mother” and mother of the pharaohs.

Naunet
Nun was the waters of chaos and Nun was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. Nun is the male aspect and Naunet is the female aspect.

Neith
Neith was an ancient goddess of war and weaving. In early times her function as a war deity, invoked blessing for weapons, both for the soldier and the hunter. As a goddess of weaving and the domestic arts, she was the protector of women and a guardian of marriage.

Nekhbet
Nekhbet is the goddess of vulture. She was a guardian of mothers and children of the royal family. However during the New Kingdom she seems to have extended her protection beyond the royal family to the common people.

Nephthys
Nephthys was a protective goddess of the dead. She was referred as “Lady of the Mansion”, “Mistress of The House” or “Head of the House”.

Nut
Nut was known as the goddess of sky. In the myth, said Nut swallows the sun god Ra every night and gives birth to him again the next morning. She became associated with the underworld and resurrection. The ancient Egyptian believed Nut’s laughter was the thunder and the tears were the rain.

Pakhet
Pakhet was the Egyptian goddess of war. He was the merged of Bastet and Sekmet, the ancient deities who were similar lioness war deities.

Qetesh
Qetesh was a goddess of ecstasy and sexual pleasure, originally from Syrian.

Satis
Satis is the goddess of the nile and fertility. Her main role as the goddess of fertility she caused the inundation and purifies the deceased and to help with their rebirth in the afterlife.

Sekhmet
Sekhmet is an ancient Egyptian goddess of war. As the warrior goddess, she accompanied the pharaoh into battle and destroys the enemies and she was also the healer.

Serket
Serket was the goddess of scorpion. Her name means “she who tightens the throat”, or “she who causes the throat to breathe” referring to her power of protecting from, or healing stings and bites.

Seshat
Seshat is an ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing from Lower Egypt. She was referred as the goddess of architecture, mathematics, historical records, astrology, astronomy, building, measurement and surveying.

Soqdet
Soqdet was one of the important goddess of star ‘Sirius’, the Dog star to ancient Egyptian astronomers. She also guides the king to the heavenly Field of Rushes, the afterworld.

Tawaret
Tawaret was the Egyptian goddess who protects women during pregnancy and childbirth. The ancient Egyptian believes that Tawaret will protect the children, assist women in labour and scare off demons that might harm the mother or the child.

Tefnut
Tefnut was the Egyptian goddess of moisture. She is also known as the goddess of water, rain and fertility.

Wadjet
Wadjet was the Serpent Goddess since the predynastic period. She is one of the nebty (the ‘two ladies’) of the pharaoh or the two protective goddesses of Egypt.

Egyptian Gods

Aah
Aah was an ancient moon god of Egypt. He was referred as the creator of the Egyptian calendar.

Aker
Aker was an ancient Egyptian Earth God and the deification of the horizon. Represent the concept of ‘Yesterday’ (Sef in Egyptian) and ‘Tomorrow’ (Duau in Egyptian).

Anat
Anat was a goddess of fertility, sexual love, hunting and war of Canaanite. Ramesses II take Anat as his personal guardian in the battle.

Anhur
Anhur was a foreign god of war and hunting originally worshipped in Thinis. He protects the sun god Ra, his father from his enemies such as Apep. Thus, he was given him the titles as “Slayer of Enemies”.

Amun
Amun is the most important and powerful of all the Egyptian Gods in ancient Egypt history. Amun being thought of as a self-made and was incorporated with the old myths of creation.

Anubis
Anubis is the jackal headed god of underworld. Anubis was the god in-charge to protect and bring the dead on their path though the afterlife.

Apep
Apep was an ancient spirit of evil and destruction, the deification of darkness and chaos, known since the Middle Kingdom.

Aten
Aten is an ancient Egyptian god also known as Aton was the sun disk, the original aspect of Ra. Aten was the creative force that gives life to all lives on the earth.

Atum
Atum was known as the god of creator. He was the first God to exist on the earth from waters of Chaos and he created all the Gods and the universe.

Baal
Baal was a god of thunder, originally from western Semitic. He was known to be a rider of clouds, most active during storms but was also considered to be a “lord of heaven and earth”, even controlling earth’s fertility.

Banebdjedet
Banedbdjed was the ram god of Lower Egypt. He was also incorporated to the first four gods or ‘ba’, to rule over the Egypt.

Bes
Bes was the protector of pregnant women, children and the households.

Geb
Geb was the god of earth. Geb referred as a healing god is also found in texts dealing with scorpion stings and how to heal them.

Hapy
Hapy was personified as a fertility god, referring to fertile inundation brought by him. Some of the epithets given for Hapy are such as “Lord of the Fishes”, “Lord of the River Bringing Vegetation” and “Birds of the Marshes”.

Heka
Heka was the god of magic and medicine. Heka was one of the creative powers both in the mortal world and the world of the gods, which were necessary for creation to come about.

Horus
Horus was originally the sky god, but he is also known as war god, hunter’s god, god of kingship and others. He played the role as the protector of the ruler of Egypt.

Huh
Huh was one of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history, the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad. He was the god of infinity and time, the god of long life and eternity.

Ihy
Ihy was a child god and was a god of music and musicians. He was the personification of the joy and jubilation experienced while using the sistrum in rites and worship.

Imhotep
Imhotep was known as the Egyptian god other than the pharaohs, who was actually a real person. He was originally the engineer, architect, writer, astronomer, physician and scientist in history known by name. Imhotep was the architect of the Step Pyramid (Pyramid of Djoser) at Saqqara.

Khepri
Khepri was the god of creation, the movement of the sun, life and resurrection. Important deities of Egyptian gods and identified as a form of a Ra, the sun god.

Khnum
Khnum is the god of the Nile inundation from Elephantine where he guarded the first cataract. He was called “the Great Potter”.

Khonsu
Khonsu was an ancient Egyptian god of the moon. Khonsu also had given titles such as Embracer, Pathfinder, and Defender as he was thought to watch over night travelers.

Kuk
One of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history is the deification of the primordial concept of darkness.

Maahes
Maahes was a solar war god of ancient Egypt in the form of a lion. He was also known as the “Avenger of Wrongs” and “Helper of the Wise Ones”, where he punished those who violated the rules of Ma’at.

Min
Min was the god of fertility and harvest. Min was worshipped by mans, as they believed that Min as a bestowal of sexual powers to them.

Monthu
Monthu was the falcon headed god of war. He was given the title “Lord of Thebes”.

Nefertum
Nefertum was an ancient sun god of Lower Egypt, who was considered to be an aspect of Atum.

Nun
Nun was the waters of chaos and Nun was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. Nun is the male aspect and Naunet is the female aspect.

Osiris
Osiris was the god of the dead and vegetation. He usually referred as god of afterlife. He is just not the ruler of the underworld, but also the god of resurrection into eternal life, protector, inundation and vegetation.

Ptah
Ptah is an ancient Egyptian god, the god of creator. Ptah also know as the God of wisdom, craftsmen, pottery and creation. According to the ancient Egyptian myth, the universe come into existence though his though and words.

Ra
Ra is king of the gods and the most important Egyptian god. He created himself from waters of Chaos and he created all the Gods and the universe. The ancient Egyptians also called Ra “the cattle of Re” the “creator”, the thought to mean “creative power”.

Resheph
Resheph was a god of war and tunder, originally from Syrian. He served as god of horses and the protector of royalty.

Seker
Seker was the Memphite god of the dead. He was the important funerary god throughout the Egyptian history. New Kingdom he was united with Ptah and Osiris became one deity, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris.

Set
Set was the god of chaos, evil, storms, desert and darkness. Earlier Set was worshipped as the god of wind and the desert storms, and he grant the strength of the storms to his followers.

Shezmu
Shezmu was the ancient Egyptian demonic god of slaughter, execution, blood and wine. He was the demonic god of slaughter, precious oils for beauty and embalming and red wine.

Shu
Shu was the Egyptian god of air. Shu is also known as the god of the atmosphere and of dry winds. She considered the god of the space and light between the sky and she also holds power over snakes.

Sobek
Sobek is the crocodile god or Lord of Faiyum Oasis from Faiyum, who had to be appeased to give people his protection against crocodiles. So, insure the fertility of their people and crops.

Thoth
Thoth the God of Wisdom and he is the god of writing, knowledge, time, fantasy, speaking, inventions and moon. Moreover he involved in arbitration, magic and the judging of the dead.

Wepwawet
Wepwawet was originally a war god from Upper Egypt. In Pyramid text it states that Wepwawet to be the one who has separated the sky from the earth, perhaps as the “opener” of the sky”.

Anat was the daughter of Ra and the sister and wife of Set, who was associated with Baal along with her sister Ashtart. As a goddess of war, she often paired with the goddess Ashtart. According to myth, in the contest between Horus and Set, Anat and Astarte appear as daughters of Ra and given in marriage to the god Set (who was associated with Baal).

The Phoenecians generally, she was portrayed as a naked woman exaggerated sexual organs bearing a bow and arrow. Sometimes, she depicted with a spear and shield or a spear and a spindle. In Egypt, she was depicted as a woman wearing the White crown flanked with plumes and she holds scepter and ankh in hand. As a war deity, she generally seated on a throne and bore a lance, a battle axe, and a shield.

In the New Kingdom, Ramesses II take Anat as his personal guardian in the battle. He also named his dog “Anat-in-vigor”. He had a daughter, who later became his wife called “Bint-Anat” (“Daughter of Anat”).

She was also known as “the Virgin”, “the Wanton”, “the Lady”, “the Destroyer”, “Strength of Life” and “the Lady of the Mountain”. Some of the titles given to her are such as “Anat-her” (“Agreeable Anat”), “Herit-Anta” (“error of Anat”) and “Beth-El” (“House of God”).

Anat was worshipped in Memphis with other deities and she had temples in the Hyksos capital of Avaris and in Beth-Shan (Palestine).

Her appearance portrayed as a naked woman standing on the back of a lion wearing a headdress of a sun disk which hold in by the cow horns. She holds snakes in her right hand and lotus flowers in her left hand. Sometimes, she also depicted as a naked woman standing on lions between Min, the God of Fertility of Egypt and Resheph, the god of Thunder of Syria offering them medicinal gifts of herbs and snakes.

According to myth, her husband was the god Resheph, who was introduced in the Middle Kingdom to Egypt and the mother of the god Min.

Qetesh also associated with Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love and Astarte, the Canaan goddess of warrior. She combines Asherah’s symbol of the pubic triangle with Hathor’s frontal pose and Asherah’s wisdom with Hathor’s competence.

Some scholars have suggested that she was a distinct goddess and that the connection with prostitution is due to early mistranslations of biblical texts. They suggest that actually the word related to temple staff, and held no sexual association.

Huh was one of the oldest Egyptian gods in ancient Egyptian history, the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad. The name Huh also spelled as Heh, Hah, Hauh, Huah, or Hahuh, whose name means endlessness. He was the god of infinity and time, the god of long life and eternity. Huh has no gender, but has the aspect that can represent as male or female. Huh is the male aspect and Hauhet also known as Heh or Hehet is the female aspect.

According to the myth, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. There were four frog gods and four snake goddesses who lived this chaos. They were four pair of deities, Nun and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Heh and Hauhet and Kuk with Kauket who represents water, void, infinite time and darkness. This group of eight gods formed the Ogdoad. Then very first land was rose out of Nun in the form of mound.

Like the other concepts in the Ogdoad, Huh appearance also portrayed as a man with the head of frog or as a frog itself. Hauhet appearance portrayed as a woman with the head of snake or as a snake itself.

Sometimes, he also depicted as a crouching man holding a palm stem in each hand with shen ring at the base of each palm stem, the Egyptian sign of long life. The shen ring symbolized infinity. The image of Heh with his arms raised was the hieroglyph for the number one million, which was essentially considered equivalent to infinity in Egyptian mathematics. So, he was also given the title as “the god of millions of years”.

According to the myth, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. There were four frog gods and four snake goddesses who lived this chaos. They were four pair of deities, Nun and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Heh and Hauhet and Kuk with Kauket who represents water, void, infinite time and darkness. This group of eight gods formed the Ogdoad. Then very first land was rose out of Nun in the form of mound.

Kuk appearance portrayed as a man with the head of frog or as a frog itself. Kauket appearance portrayed as a woman with the head of snake or as a snake itself. Kuk represented darkness, obscurity and night. However, although he was a god of the darkness, he was also associated with the dawn and given the title as the “bringer-in of the light”.

Hatmehyt was the consort of the ram god Banedgjedet (literally meaning Ba of the lord of the djed, referring to Osiris), who later took over her position as the main deity of Mendes and Hatmehyt was worshipped in the female form of Banebdjedet.

As wife of Banedgjedet (Osiris) she was eventually became associated with Isis and she was also considered the mother of Horus (a form known as Harpocrates). These three deities formed the “Mendesian Triad”.

Her appearances portrayed as woman with a fish emblem or crown on her head. Sometimes, she depicted as the fish itself, which led to suggestions that it was a dolphin. However, later it was discarded with the lepidotus fish, which is common in the Nile. Hatmehhyt was also known as the “Chief of Fish”.

Ammit was an ancient Egyptian funerary deity. The name Ammit also spelled as Ammut, Amhemit, Ammet, Amam or Amemet. Her name translated as “Devourer”, but could also be the chilling “Bone Eater”. Ammit was referred as a devourer of the wicked.

According to myth, Ammit sat beside the scale of Ma’at in the Hall of Two Truths awaiting the judgement of the deceased that passed through there. In the Hall of Two Truths, the hearts of the dead ones were judged by weighing one’s heart against the feather of Ma’at. If hearts of the deceased are as “light as a feather” on the scale, they were granted eternal life in the Duat which means the person had led a pure and honest life. Those hearts of the deceased that heavy, were found to be heavy with sin and unworthy to dwell in the Afterlife were devoured by Ammit.

As a demoness of punishment, she was also known as the “Eater of Hearts”, “Eater of Souls”, “The Devourer” “Devourer of Millions (Am-heh in Egyptian)” and “Great of Death”.

Her appearance depicted as a demon with the head of a crocodile, the front part of her body as a lion leopard, and the back part is in the form of a hippopotamus.

Ammit was not worshipped like other Egyptian gods, she only played her part in the funeral texts and there was no temples or cult built for her.

Bat was an ancient cow goddess, who originally worshipped in Seshesh, the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt. The name Bat also known as Bata. The word “ba” is the spiritual element that Egyptians considered as one of the major parts of the soul.

As referred to the Pyramid Text, Bat also known as the “Ba of two faces” that represent her ability to see the past and into the future. However, this two faces also can represent the two banks of the Nile or both Upper and Lower Egypt. Bat also given other titles such as “She Who Lows” and “Great Wild Cow”.

Bat rarely depicted in sculpture or painting of Egyptian artwork, however very often she can be seen in amulets. Usually, she was shown as a human face with bovine ears and curled horns. Her body is in the shape of a necklace counterpoise. She most likely, the cow goddess seen at the top of the Narmer Palette with cow’s horns and two faces, which celebrated the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.

She was highly associated with the ankh, a symbol was associated with ba, as it represented life and with the sistrum, a musical instrument whose shape is very similar to that of the ankh. Consequently, she also became strongly associated with Hathor.

Bat was worshipped for centuries in the 7th Nome and Hathor was worshipped in the 6th Nome of Upper Egypt. It is possible that Bat and Hathor were once the same goddess.

Amunet was an ancient Egyptian Fertility Goddess of Upper Egypt. The name Amunet also spelled as Amonet, Amaunet, Amentet, Amentit, Imentet, Imentit or Ament, whose name means “She of the West”, as she is regarded as a personification of the direction West.

She is one of the eight primeval gods in the Ogdoad, forming the female counterpart of Amun, whose name means “The Hidden One” as the invisible air and wind. According to some myths Amunet was the daughter of Horus and Hathor. She was also sometimes merged with Hathor, Isis and Neith, Mut, and Nut.

The name hidden one was also sometimes used to refer to the underworld, and so Amaunet became more associated with welcoming the newly dead. Amunet depicted as a woman with the head of snake or as a snake, like all females deities in the Ogdoad.

Amunet appearance portrayed as a woman wearing a sign representing the west (a semi circle on top of one long and one short pole) and of hawk or ostrich feather on the head. Occasionally, she was shown carrying a scepter and the ankh of life in hand. Sometimes, she was also depicted as a winged goddess.

Amun’s consort Amunet later was replaced by Mut. Though Amunet less important than Mut, she remains the consort of Amun at Karnak, the main center of worship.