On this page is a list of the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Not all of them may be listed but this is the best that I could find. Again I repeat that this list is not meant to offend but to entertain.
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- Ferryman to the underworld
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- dog or god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead
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(also spelled Apophis) - evil serpent of the Underworld.
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- the sun disk or globe worshipped primarily during the Amarna Period in the eighteenth dynasty when representing a monotheistic deity advanced by Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten
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- a creator deity, and the setting sun
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- goddess, protector of the pharaoh and a solar deity where the sun could be seen shining in her eyes at night, a , also known as Bastet
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- dwarfed demigod - associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment
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- god of the Earth and first ruler of Egypt
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(also spelled Hapi) - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility
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(also spelled Hethert) - among the oldest of Egyptian deities - often depicted as the cow
, a cow-goddess, sky-goddess and tree-goddess who was the mother to the pharaoh and earlier to the universe, the golden calfof the bible, and later goddess of love and music
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(also spelled Heqet) - goddess of childbirth and fertility, who breathed life into humans at birth, represented as a frogor a frog-headed woman
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(also spelled Heru) - the falcon-headed god. Includes multiple forms or potentially different gods, including Heru the son of Isis, god of pharaohs and Upper Egypt, and Heru the elder
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(also spelled Aset) - goddess of magical power and healing, "She of the Throne" who was represented as the throne, also later as the wife of Osiris and as the protector of the dead
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- the goddess who was called the mother and grandmother of all of the deities.
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(also spelled Khepra) - the scarab
, the embodiment of the dawn
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- a creator deity, god of the inundation
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- the son of Amun and Mut, whose name means "wanderer", which probably refers to the passage of the moon across the sky, as he was a lunar deity. In the late period, he was also considered an important god of healing
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- he who is true beside her, a lion prince, son of Bast in Lower Egypt and of Sekhmet in Upper Egypt and sharing their natures, his father varied—being the current chief male deity of the time and region, a god of war, weather, and protector of matrilineality
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- a goddess who personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order - represented as a woman, sitting or standing, holding a sceptre in one hand and an ankhin the other - thought to have created order out of the primal chaos and was responsible for maintaining the order of the universe and all of its inhabitants, to prevent a return to chaos
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- goddess of war - depicted as a lioness
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- goddess of the valley of the kings,
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- goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each person's Ka
, a part of their soul, thereby associated with fate
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- a goddess, the primal waters from which all arose.
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- goddess of war, then great mother goddess - a name of the primal waters, the goddess of creation and weaving, said to weave all of the world on her loom
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- goddess depicted as an
- protector of Egypt, royalty, and the pharaoh with her extended wings - always seen on the front of pharaoh’s double
with
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(also spelled Nebthet) - goddess of death, holder of the rattle, the
- sister to
and the nursing mother of Horus and the pharaohs represented as the mistress of the temple, a woman with
wings, usually outstretched as a symbol of protection
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- mother of many deities as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars
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- god of the
after
and
, fertility, and agriculture - the oldest son of the sky goddess, Nut, and the Earth god, Geb, and being brother and later, the husband of Isis.
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- a creator deity, also god of craft
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- The "Lord of the North Wind," associated with the lands beyond the third cataract
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- the
, also a creator deity - whose chief cult centre was based in Heliopolis meaning "city of the sun"
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- the goddess who represented the flooding of the Nile River, ancient war, hunting, and fertility goddess, mother of the Nile, Anuket, associated with water, depicted with a bow and
, and a
or antelope horned, and sometimes,
crown
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(also spelled Sokar) - god of death
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- goddess of destruction and war, the
- also personified as an aspect of Ra, fierce protector of the pharaoh, a solar deity, and later as an aspect of
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(also spelled Serqet) -
goddess, protectress, goddess of
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- goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics depicted as a
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(also spelled Seth) - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert and patron of Upper Egypt - 'Set-animal'-headed- as one of the most prominent deities of chaos he does not have an actual animal to represent him, but is seen as an amalgamation of many different characteristics of other animals.
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- embodiment of wind or air
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god of the Nile
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(also spelled Tawret) - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth
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- goddess, embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather, depicted as a
and sometimes as a
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(also spelled Djehuty) - god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, magic; usually depicted as
-headed, or as a
; cult centered in Khemennu