Egyptian Gods

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”.