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Ra (/rɑː/;[1] Ancient Egyptian: rꜥ or rˤ; also transliterated rˤw /ˈɾiːʕuw/; cuneiform: 𒊑𒀀 ri-a or 𒊑𒅀ri-ia)[2] or Re (/reɪ/; Coptic: ⲣⲏ, Rē) is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon sun. Ra was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld.[3] He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky.

Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. At times the two deities were merged as Ra-Horakhty, "Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons". In the New Kingdom, when the god Amun rose to prominence he was fused with Ra into Amun-Ra.

The cult of the Mnevis bull, an embodiment of Ra, had its center in Heliopolis and there was a formal burial ground for the sacrificed bulls north of the city.

All forms of life were believed to have been created by Ra. In some accounts, humans were created from Ra's tears and sweat, hence the Egyptians call themselves the "Cattle of Ra". In the myth of the Celestial Cow, it is recounted how mankind plotted against Ra and how he sent his eye as the goddess Sekhmet to punish them.

The sun is the giver of life, controlling the ripening of crops which were worked by man. Because of the life-giving qualities of the sun the Egyptians worshiped the sun as a god. The creator of the universe and the giver of life, the sun or Ra represented life, warmth and growth. Since the people regarded Ra as a principal god, creator of the universe and the source of life, he had a strong influence on them, which led to him being one of the most worshiped of all the Egyptian gods and even considered King of the Gods. At an early period in Egyptian history his influence spread throughout the whole country, bringing multiple representations in form and in name. The most common form combinations are with Atum (his human form), Khepri (the scarab beetle) and Horus (the falcon). The form in which he usually appears is that of a man with a falcon's head, which is due to his combination with Horus, another sky-god. On top of his head sits a solar disc with a cobra, which in many myths represents the eye of Ra. At the beginning of time, when there was nothing but chaos, the sun-god existed alone in the watery mass of Nun which filled the universe.[4] "I am Atum when he was alone in Nun, I am Ra when he dawned, when he began to rule that which he had made."[4] This passage talks about how Atum created everything in human form out of the chaos and how Ra then began to rule over the earth where humans and divine beings coexisted. He created Shu, god of air, and the goddess of moisture, Tefnut.[5] The siblings symbolized two universal principles of humans: life and right (justice). Ra was believed to have created all forms of life by calling them into existence by uttering their secret names. In some accounts humans were created from Ra's tears and sweat.[4]

According to one myth the first portion of Earth came into being when the sun god summoned it out of the watery mass of Nun. In the myth of the Celestial Cow (the sky was thought of as a huge cow, the goddess Meht-urt) it is recounted how mankind plotted against[6] Ra and how he sent his eye, as the goddess Sekhmet, to punish them. Extensions of Ra's power were often shown as the Eye of Ra, which were the female versions of the sun-god. Ra had three daughters Bastet, Sekhmet and Hathor, who were all considered the Eye of Ra, who would seek out his vengeance. Sekhmet was the Eye of Ra and was created by the fire in Ra's eye. She was violent and sent to slaughter the people who betrayed Ra, but when calm she became the more kind and forgiving goddess Hathor. Sekhmet was the powerful warrior and protector while Bastet, who was depicted as a cat, was shown as gentle and nurturing.

In the underworld

Ra was thought to travel on the Atet, two solar barques called the Mandjet (the Boat of Millions of Years) or morning-boat and the Mesektet or evening-boat.[7] These boats took him on his journey through the sky and the Duat - twelve hours of night which is also the literal underworld of Egypt. While Ra was on the Mesektet, he was in his ram-headed form.[7] When Ra traveled in his sun-boat, he was accompanied by various other deities including Sia (perception) and Hu (command), as well as Heka (magic power). Sometimes, members of the Ennead helped him on his journey, including Set, who overcame the serpent Apophis, and Mehen, who defended against the monsters of the underworld. When Ra was in the underworld, he would visit all of his various forms.[7] He is called Af or Afu in the underworld

Apophis, the god of chaos (isfet), was an enormous serpent who attempted to stop the sun-boat's journey every night by consuming it or by stopping it in its tracks with a hypnotic stare. During the evening, the Egyptians believed that Ra set as Atum or in the form of a ram. The night boat would carry him through the underworld and back towards the east in preparation for his rebirth. These myths of Ra represented the sun rising as the rebirth of the sun by the sky-goddess Nut; thus attributing the concept of rebirth and renewal to Ra and strengthening his role as a creator god as well.[8]

When Ra was in the underworld, he merged with Osiris, the god of the dead.[7]

Ra was represented in a variety of forms. The most usual form was a man with the head of a falcon and a solar disk on top and a coiled serpent around the disk.[7] Other common forms are a man with the head of a beetle (in his form as Khepri), or a man with the head of a ram. Ra was also pictured as a full-bodied ram, beetle, phoenix, heron, serpent, bull, cat, or lion, among others.[9]

He was most commonly featured with a ram's head in the Underworld.[7] In this form, Ra is described as being the "ram of the west" or "ram in charge of his harem.[7]

In some literature, Ra is described as an aging king with golden flesh, silver bones, and hair of lapis lazuli.[7]

The chief cultic center of Ra was Iunu "the Place of Pillars", later known to the Ptolemaic Kingdom as Heliopolis (Koinē Greek: Ἡλιούπολις, lit. "Sun City")[3] and today located in the suburbs of Cairo. He was identified with the local sun god Atum. As Atum or Atum-Ra, he was reckoned the first being and the originator of the Ennead ("The Nine"), consisting of Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut, Osiris, Set, Isis and Nephthys. The holiday of "The Receiving of Ra" was celebrated on May 26 in the Gregorian calendar.[10]

Ra's local cult began to grow from roughly the Second Dynasty, establishing him as a sun-deity. By the Fourth Dynasty, pharaohs were seen as Ra's manifestations on earth, referred to as "Sons of Ra". His worship increased massively in the Fifth Dynasty, when Ra became a state-deity and pharaohs had specially aligned pyramids, obelisks, and sun temples built in his honor. The rulers of the Fifth Dynasty told their followers that they were sons of Ra himself and the wife of the high priest of Heliopolis.[7] These pharaohs spent much of Egypt's money on sun-temples.[7] The first Pyramid Texts began to arise, giving Ra more and more significance in the journey of the pharaoh through the Duat (underworld).[7]

During the Middle Kingdom, Ra was increasingly affiliated and combined with other chief deities, especially Amun and Osiris.

Ra on the

solar barque

At the time of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the worship of Ra had become more complicated and grander. The walls of tombs were dedicated to extremely detailed texts that depicted Ra's journey through the underworld. Ra was said to carry the prayers and blessings of the living with the souls of the dead on the sun-boat. The idea that Ra aged with the sun became more popular during the rise of the New Kingdom.

Many acts of worship included hymns, prayers and spells to help Ra and the sun-boat overcome Apep.

The rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire put an end to the worship of Ra.[11

Gods merged with Ra

Ra and

Amun

, from the tomb of

Ramses IV

."Ra-Horakhty" redirects here. For the Egyptian month named in his honor, see

Mesori

As with most widely worshiped Egyptian deities, Ra's identity was often combined with other gods', forming an interconnection between deities.

Amun and Amun-Ra

Amun

was a member of the Ogdoad, representing creation-energies with

Amaunet

, a very early patron of

Thebes

. He was believed to create via breath and thus was identified with the wind rather than the sun. As the cults of Amun and Ra became increasingly popular in Upper and

Lower Egypt

respectively they were combined to create Amun-Ra, a solar creator god. It is hard to distinguish exactly when this combination happened, but references to Amun-Ra appeared in pyramid texts as early as the Fifth Dynasty. The most common belief is that Amun-Ra was invented as a new state-deity by the Theban rulers of the

New Kingdom

to unite worshipers of Amun with the older cult of Ra around the 18th Dynasty.

[12]

Amun-Ra was given the official title "King of the Gods" by worshippers, and images show the combined deity as a red-eyed man with a lion's head that had a surrounding solar disk.

[12]

Atum and Atum-RaAtum-Ra (or Ra-Atum) was another composite deity formed from two completely separate deities; however, Ra shared more similarities with

Atum

than with

Amun

. Atum was more closely linked with the sun, and was also a creator god of the

Ennead

. Both Ra and

Atum

were regarded as the father of the deities and pharaohs and were widely worshiped. In older myths, Atum was the creator of

Tefnut

and Shu, and he was born from the

ocean

Nun

Imentet

and Ra from the tomb of

Nefertari

, 13th century BCRa-Horakhty

Pyramidion of Khonsu, with the image of Ra-Horakhty in the middle.In later Egyptian mythology, Ra-Horakhty was more of a title or manifestation than a composite deity. It translates as "Ra (who is)

Horus

of the

Horizons

". It was intended to link Horakhty (as a sunrise-oriented aspect of Horus) to Ra. It has been suggested that Ra-Horakhty simply refers to the sun's journey from horizon to horizon as Ra, or that it means to show Ra as a symbolic deity of hope and rebirth. (See earlier section

#The sun

).Khepri and Khnum

Khepri

was a scarab beetle who rolled up the sun in the mornings and was sometimes seen as the morning manifestation of Ra. Similarly, the

ram

-headed god

Khnum

was also seen as the evening manifestation of Ra. The idea of different deities (or different aspects of Ra) ruling over different times of the day was fairly common but variable. With Khepri and Khnum taking precedence over sunrise and

sunset

, Ra often was the representation of midday when the sun reached its peak at noon. Sometimes different aspects of Horus were used instead of Ra's aspects.Raet-TawyRaet or

Raet-Tawy

was a female aspect of Ra; she did not have much importance independent of him. In some myths she was considered to be either Ra's wife or his daughter.

[13]

Gods created by RaBastet

Bastet

(also called Bast) is sometimes known as the "cat of Ra".

[14]

She is also his daughter by

Isis

and is associated with Ra's instrument of vengeance, the sun-god's eye.

[14]

Bastet is known for decapitating the serpent

Apophis

(Ra's sworn enemy and the "God" of Chaos) to protect Ra.

[14]

In one myth, Ra sent Bastet as a lioness to Nubia.

[14]

Sekhmet

is another daughter of Ra.

[15]

Sekhmet was depicted as a lioness or large cat, and was an "eye of Ra", or an instrument of the sun god's vengeance.

[15]

In one myth, Sekhmet was so filled with rage that Ra was forced to turn her into a cow so that she would not cause unnecessary harm.

[15]

In another myth, Ra fears that mankind is plotting against him and sends Hathor (another daughter of Ra) to punish humanity. While slaughtering humans she takes the form of Sekhmet. To prevent her from killing all humanity, Ra orders that beer be dyed red and poured out on the land. Mistaking the beer for blood, Sekhmet drinks it, and upon becoming intoxicated, she reverts to her pacified form, Hathor.

[16]

Hathor

is another daughter of Ra.

[17]

When Ra feared that mankind was plotting against him, he sent Hathor as an "eye of Ra".

[15]

In one myth, Hathor danced naked in front of Ra until he laughed to cure him of a fit of sulking.

[17]

When Ra was without Hathor, he fell into a state of deep depression.

[18]

Other gods

Neith

Brooklyn Museum

Ptah

is rarely mentioned in the literature of Old Kingdom pyramids.

[19]

This is believed by some to be a result of the Ra-worshipping people of Heliopolis being the main writers of these inscriptions.

[19]

While some believed that Ra is self-created, others believed that Ptah created him.

[20]

IsisIn one myth,

Isis

created a serpent to poison Ra and only gave him the antidote when he revealed his true name to her. Isis passed this name on to Horus, bolstering his royal authority.

[21]

Apep

, also called Apophis, was the god of chaos and Ra's arch-enemy. He was said to lie just below the horizon line, trying to devour Ra as Ra traveled through the underworld.

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Lesser Known Kemetic Gods:

Aet (Amentet) - A goddess who welcomed the dead to the afterlife with food and drink. Known as "She of the West", Amenet was the consort of the Divine Ferryman. She lived in a tree near the gates of the underworld. Daughter of Hathor and Horus.

Ba'alat Gebal - Phoenician goddess of the city of Byblos, a protector deity, incorporated into Egyptian worship through her association with papyrus, which came from Byblos

Bat - An early cow goddess associated with fertility and success. She is one of the oldest Egyptian goddesses dating from the early Predynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE). Bat is depicted as a cow or a woman with cow ears and horns and is most probably the image at the top of the Narmer Palette (c. 3150 BCE) as she was associated with the king's success. She blessed people with success owing to her ability to see both past and future. Eventually, she was absorbed by Hathor who took on her characteristics.

Bes Aha or Bisu) - God of childbirth, fertility, sexuality, humor, and war, popularly known as the Dwarf god. He is one of the most popular gods in Egyptian history who protected women and children, fended off evil, and fought for divine order and justice. He is often represented as more of a spirit (a 'demon', though not at all in the modern-day understanding of that word) than a deity but was worshipped as a god and featured on a number of everyday items in the homes of the Egyptians such as furniture, mirrors, and knife handles.

Beset - The female aspect of Bes invoked in ceremonial magic. As a protective god, Bes also fended off dark magic, ghosts, spirits, and demons. His feminine aspect was called on to combat these forces

Four Sons of Horus - Four deities, Duamutef, Hapy, Imset, and Qebehsenuef, who watched over the viscera or the dead in the four canopic jars placed in the tomb. Each had his own cardinal point to guard, his own internal organ to protect, and was watched over by a specific goddess.

Heh and Hauhet - God and goddess of infinity and eternity. Heh was depicted as a frog and Hauhet as a serpent. Their names mean "endlessness" and they were among the original gods of the Ogdoad

Heka - One of the oldest and most important gods in ancient Egypt. He was the patron god of magic and medicine but was also the primordial source of power in the universe. He existed before the gods and was present in the act of creation although, in later myths, he is seen as the son of Menhet and Khnum and part of the triad of Latopolis

Ihy - God of music and joy, specifically the music of the sistrum. Son of Hathor and Horus the Elder. He was worshipped with Hathor at Dendera and invoked at festivals. His birth is honored in wall inscriptions at birth houses in Dendera in the belief that joy and music should welcome children to earth at their birth. Depicted as a child with a sistrum.

Kherty (Cherti) - He was a ram-headed god of the underworld who ferried the dead on their last journey into the afterlife. In the Old Kingdom (c. 2613-2181 BCE) he was said to rule the afterlife with Osiris. Kherty reigned over the entrance and hallways leading to the Hall of Truth while Osiris had reign over the Hall and the Field of Reeds.

Khonsu (Kons, Chonsu, Khensu, or Chons) - His name means "The Traveler" and he was god of the moon. He formed one of the most important and influential triads at Thebes along with his father Amun and mother Mut. He is depicted as a mummy holding the crook and flail with a uraeus and moon disc on his head. Khonsu replaced the earlier god Montu as son of Mut and also took on his protective qualities.

Maahes (Mahes, Mihos, or Mysis) - He was a powerful solar god and protector of the innocent depicted as a lion-headed man carrying a long knife or a lion. His name is linked to the goddess of harmony and truth, Ma'at, and may mean "True Before Ma'at". This interpretation is likely as his other names include "Lord of Slaughter" and "The Scarlet Lord" referring to his punishment of those who violated the sacred order life presided over by the goddess

Mafdet (Mefdet) - She was an early goddess of justice who pronounced judgment and meted out execution swiftly. Her name means "She Who Runs" for the speed with which she dispensed justice. She is the earliest feline deity in Egypt, pre-dating both Bastet and Sekhmet.

Mehen - The serpent god who wrapped himself around Ra in the sun barge to protect him from Apep's attacks. In early myths he is shown protecting Ra while Set fights off the serpent.

Meretseger - A protector goddess in the form of a cobra venerated at Thebes. Specifically, she guarded the necropolis of the Valley of the Kings.

Mut - An early mother goddess who most likely had a minor role during the Predynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE) but who later became prominent as the wife of Amun and mother of Khonsu, part of the Theban Triad. Mut was a protector deity associated with Bastet and Sekhmet. She guarded over people in life and, in Spell 164 of the Book of the Dead, is depicted as a savior of souls trapped by demons in the afterlife. She was also the divine protector of the king and state who roasted conspirators and traitors in her flaming brazier.

Nehebkau (Nehebu-Kau) - "He Who Unites the Ka", was a protector god who joined the ka (aspect of the soul) to the body at birth and united the ka with the ba (winged aspect of the soul) after death. He is depicted as a serpent and, like Heka, has always existed. Nehebkau swam in the primordial waters at the dawn of creation before Atum rose from the chaos to impose order.

Nephthys - A funerary goddess, one of the first five gods born of Geb and Nut after the creation of the world, wife of Set, twin sister of Isis, and mother of Anubis. Her name means "Mistress of the Temple Enclosure" or "Mistress of the House" referring to a heavenly house or temple. She is depicted as a woman with a house on her head. Nephthys is widely, and incorrectly, regarded as a minor deity when actually she was worshipped throughout Egypt from the earliest periods to the last dynasty to rule Egypt. She was considered the dark goddess to the light of Isis but this carried no negative connotation, only balance.

Ptah - One of the oldest Egyptian gods who appears in the First Dynastic Period (c. 3150-2613 BCE) but most likely dates from the Predynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE). Ptah was the great god of Memphis, creator of the world, lord of truth, and chief god of the city of Memphis and its surrounding area c. 3000 BCE. Ptah was originally the figure who stood on the primordial mound of the ben-ben at the creation of the world. He was probably an early fertility god and is associated with the moringa tree which, in an early myth, he liked to rest beneath.

Renenutet (Renenet or Ernutet) - A very important goddess depicted as a cobra or a rearing cobra with the head of a woman. Her name means "Snake Who Nourishes" and she was goddess of nursing and rearing children. In time, she became closely associated with Meskhenet, goddess of childbirth and destiny, and even superceded her to determine the length of a person's life and significant events which would befall them.

Sah - An astral god, personification of the constellation Orion, usually paired with Sothis (Sopdet) as representations of the astral forms of Osiris and Isis. He is referred to as "Father of the gods" in the Pyramid Texts and was an important aspect of funerary rites where he welcomed the king to the afterlife.

Sed - An ancient jackal deity who name first appears on the Palermo Stone from the Fifth Dynasty (2498-2345 BCE) but who was most likely much older. He was the protector of kingship and the individual king. He presided over the Sed Festival (also known as the Heb-Sed Festival) which was held every thirty years of a king's rule to rejuvenate him. He was eventually absorbed by Wepwawet or it could be that Wepwawet (whose name means "Opener of the Ways") was simply one of Sed's epithets which became more popular. As protector of the divine king, Sed was associated with justice and so linked to the goddess Ma'at.

Serket (Selket, Serqet or Serkis) - She was a protective and also an important funerary goddess probably originating in the Predynastic Period (c. 6000-3150 BCE) and first mentioned during the First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3150-2890 BCE). She is best known from her golden statue found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Serket was a scorpion goddess depicted as a woman with a scorpion on her head and arms outstretched in a protective pose.

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Egyptian God's and Godesses

❤Amun - A creator God, patron of the city of Thebes.

❤Maahes - Egyptian lion-headed God of war.

❤Anhur - An Egyptian sky god and God of war. His name meant “sky-bearer”.

❤Ra – God of the sun, earth, and underworld. He is powerful and protective.

❤Anubis – God of dead, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies. Jackal-headed God.

❤Thoth – God of the moon, magic, and writing.

❤Apophis - God of snakes, war, and Chaos.

❤Bes - Dwarf God.

❤Geb - God of the earth.

❤Khnum - Ram-headed God.

❤Khonsu - God of the moon.

❤Mafdet - God of justice.

❤Osiris - God of the underworld and the afterlife.

❤Ptah - God of creation.

❤Qebui - God of the North wind.

❤Qetesh - A mother Goddess of fertility.

❤Set - God of chaos, change, deserts, storms, and foreigners.

❤Shu - God of wind and air.

❤Sopdu - A God of war.

❤Tefnut - Lion Goddess of water and fertility.

❤Wadjet - Goddess of protection.

❤Sekhmet - Goddess of lions, fire, and vengeance.

❤Pakhet - A goddess of motherhood and of war.

❤Ma'at - Goddess of justice, truth, and of order.

❤Kebechet - Goddess of purification.

❤Isis - Goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and protection.

❤Hathor - Goddess of love.

❤Bastet - Cat Goddess.

❤Amunet - Wife of Amun, one of the creation Goddesses.

❤Tawaret – Goddess of childbirth who protects women in labour. People wear her image as an amulet to protect them and their children.

❤Kuk - God of personification of darkness.

❤Horus - The falcon-headed sky God.

❤Khepri - God of scarab beetles.

❤Aten - Aten God is the disk of the sun.

❤Ammit - Goddess Ammit was the personification of divine retribution. The Goddess with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile.

❤Atum - “The All” or “Perfection”. His appearance is a man with the double crown. Atum was a creator God.

❤Nun - The sun God.

❤Montu - Montu was a falcon God of war.

❤Babi - Babi was a fierce, bloodthirsty baboon God.

❤Heh - God of personification of infinity or eternity.

❤Wepwawet - An ancient wolf God.

❤Serapis - Sun, healing, and fertility God.

❤Wadj-wer - God of fertility whose name means the “Great Green”.

❤Khenti-Amentiu - Warrior God.

❤Resheph - Resheph was a God of War and Tunder.

❤Heka - Heka was the God of deification of magic.

❤Andjety - Underworld God of Rebirth.

❤Heryshaf - Heryshaf was an ancient creator, fertility God, and God of the riverbanks.

❤Hu - Hu was the God of taste and the personification of the divine command.

❤Shezmu - Shezmu is the Egyptian God of blood, wine, perfume, and the slaughterer servant of Osiris.

❤Aker - Aker was an ancient Egyptian God of earth and death.

❤Sia - Goddess of wisdom.

❤Banebdjedet - Banebdjedet is a ram God of fertility with a cult centre at Mendes.

❤Mehen - Mehen is a protective God who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun God Ra during his journey through the night.

❤Hermes Trismegistus - Combination of Greek God Hermes and Egyptian God Thoth Gods of writing, magic, and more.

❤Ba-Pef - Ba-Pef was a minor underworld God in Egyptian mythology.

❤Duamutef - In Egyptian mythology, Dumutef was one of the Four sons of Horus and a funerary God who protected the stomach and small intestines of mummified corpses, kept in a canopic jar.

❤Mandulis - Mandulis is a Nubian God depicted anthropomorphically wearing the hemhem crown, consisting of three atef crowns, or ‘bundles’ mounted on ram’s horns with a uraeus (cobra) on either side, each surmounted by a solar disk, or as a human-headed bird.

❤Iah - Iah is a lunar God in ancient Egyptian religion. His name simply means “Moon”.

❤Am-heh - In Egyptian mythology, Am-heh was a minor God from the underworld, whose name means either “devourer of millions” or “eater of eternity”.

❤Nephthys - Nephthys is the Egyptian Goddess of mourning and lamentation, sleep, rivers, the night, service, and the home, a friend and protector of the dead.

❤Neith - Neith was an ancient Goddess of war and weaving.

❤Serket - Serket is the Goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bites.

❤Seshat - Seshat was the ancient Egyptian Goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing.

❤Heqet - Heqet is an Egyptian Goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog.

❤Nekhbet - Nekhbet was the Egyptian white vulture Goddess and protector of Egypt and the Pharaohs. She was referred to as “Mother of Mothers, who hath existed from the Beginning”.

❤Mut - In Egyptian religion, a sky Goddess and great divine mother. Mut was the mother Goddess , the queen of the Gods at Waset, arising in power with the God Amen.

❤Meretseger - Meretseger is a Goddess with head of the snake.

❤Hededet - Hededet is a scorpion Goddess of the ancient Egyptian religion.

❤Anuket - Anuket was the personification and Goddess of the Nile river in the Egyptian mythology.

❤Meskhenet - In ancient Egyptian mythology, Meskhenet was the Goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth. She was worshipped from the earliest of times by Egyptians.

❤Eye of Ra - The Eye of Ra is a being in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as a feminine counterpart to the sun god Ra and a violent force that subdues his enemies. The Eye is an extension of Ra’s power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it also behaves as an independent entity.

❤Renenutet -Renenutet was a Goddess of nourishment and the harvest in ancient Egyptian religion.

❤Amunet - Amunet was a primordial Goddess in ancient Egyptian religion.

❤Menhit - Menhit was originally a Nubian war Goddess in Egyptian mythology.

❤Hatmehit - Hatmehit in the ancient Egyptian religion was a fish-Goddess. In ancient Egyptian art Hatmehit was depicted either as a fish, or a woman with a fish emblem or crown on her head. She was a Goddess of life and protection.

❤Sopdet - Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian Goddess.

❤Anput - Anput is a Goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. She was the Goddess of funerals and mummification, the mother of Kebechet and possibly from Ammit also.

❤Hemsut - In Egyptian mythology, Hemsut was the Goddess of fate, destiny, and protection in ancient Egypt.

❤Raet-Tawy - Raet-Tawy is an ancient Egyptian solar Goddess, the female aspect of Ra. Her name is simply the female form of Ra’s name; the longer name Raet-Tawy means “Raet of the Two Lands” (Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt).

❤Wosret - Wosret meaning "the powerful" was an Egyptian Goddess with a cult centre at Thebes in Upper Egypt. She was initially a localised guardian deity.

❤Mehet-Weret - Mehet-Weret is a Goddess of the sky in ancient Egyptian religion. Her name means “Great Flood”.

❤Tenenet - Tenenet was an ancient Egyptian Goddess of childbirth and beer.

❤Werethekau - Werethekau "great one of magic, great enchantress" was an ancient Egyptian deity. She served as the personification of supernatural powers.

❤Anat - Anat is a major northwest Semitic Goddess.

❤Min - Min was the God of reproduction.

❤Qebehsenuef - Qebehsenuef "he who refreshes his brothers" is an ancient Egyptian deity. He is one of the four sons of Horus in Egyptian mythology, the God of protection and of the West.

❤Heh - Ḥeḥ was in Egyptian mythology, the personification of infinity or eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning “endlessness”.

❤Petbe - In Egyptian mythology, Petbe was the god of revenge. His name translates as Sky-Ba, roughly meaning Soul of the Sky, or Mood of the sky.

❤Tutu - God of protection of tombs, later guarded the sleeping from danger or bad dreams. Master of demons. Tutu’s iconography is anthropomorphic, consisting of the body of a striding, winged lion, the head of a human, other heads of hawks, and crocodiles projecting from the body, and the tail of a serpent.

❤Apedemak - Apedemak was a lion-headed warrior God.

❤Weneg - Weneg was a sky and death God from ancient Egyptian religion, who was said to protect the earth and his inhabitants against the arrival of the “great chaos”.

❤Hemen - Hemen is the falcon-God, who holds a cobra between its claws.

❤Tatenen - Tatenen was the God of the primordial mound in ancient Egyptian religion. His name means risen land or exalted earth, as well as referring to the silt of the Nile. As a primeval chthonic deity, Tatenen was identified with creation. He was an androgynous protector of nature from the Memphis area.

❤Bata - Bata from Saka is an Egyptian bull-God of the New Kingdom, who represents together with his brother Anubis.

❤Apis - A live bull worshipped as a God at Memphis.

❤Aten - The God disk of the sun.

❤Gengen-Wer - Goose God.

❤Hapi - God of the Nile.

❤Heket - Goddess of frogs.

❤Nut - In Egyptian mythology, Nut was the Goddess of the sky.

❤Seker - Falcon God.

❤Selket - Goddess of scorpions.

❤Sobek - God of crocodiles and alligators.

(Sidenote: I work with bastet and hathor ^-^)

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Egyptian God's and Godesses

❤Amun - A creator God, patron of the city of Thebes. ❤Maahes - Egyptian lion-headed God of war. ❤Anhur - An Egyptian sky god and God of war. His name meant “sky-bearer”. ❤Ra – God of the sun, earth, and underworld. He is powerful and protective. ❤Anubis – God of dead, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies. Jackal-headed God. ❤Thoth – God of the moon, magic, and writing. ❤Apophis - God of snakes, war, and Chaos. ❤Bes - Dwarf God. ❤Geb - God of the earth. ❤Khnum - Ram-headed God. ❤Khonsu - God of the moon. ❤Mafdet - God of justice. ❤Osiris - God of the underworld and the afterlife. ❤Ptah - God of creation. ❤Qebui - God of the North wind. ❤Qetesh - A mother Goddess of fertility. ❤Set - God of chaos, change, deserts, storms, and foreigners. ❤Shu - God of wind and air. ❤Sopdu - A God of war. ❤Tefnut - Lion Goddess of water and fertility. ❤Wadjet - Goddess of protection. ❤Sekhmet - Goddess of lions, fire, and vengeance. ❤Pakhet - A goddess of motherhood and of war. ❤Ma'at - Goddess of justice, truth, and of order. ❤Kebechet - Goddess of purification. ❤Isis - Goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and protection. ❤Hathor - Goddess of love. ❤Bastet - Cat Goddess. ❤Amunet - Wife of Amun, one of the creation Goddesses. ❤Tawaret – Goddess of childbirth who protects women in labour. People wear her image as an amulet to protect them and their children. ❤Kuk - God of personification of darkness. ❤Horus - The falcon-headed sky God. ❤Khepri - God of scarab beetles. ❤Aten - Aten God is the disk of the sun. ❤Ammit - Goddess Ammit was the personification of divine retribution. The Goddess with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile. ❤Atum - “The All” or “Perfection”. His appearance is a man with the double crown. Atum was a creator God. ❤Nun - The sun God. ❤Montu - Montu was a falcon God of war. ❤Babi - Babi was a fierce, bloodthirsty baboon God. ❤Heh - God of personification of infinity or eternity. ❤Wepwawet - An ancient wolf God. ❤Serapis - Sun, healing, and fertility God. ❤Wadj-wer - God of fertility whose name means the “Great Green”. ❤Khenti-Amentiu - Warrior God. ❤Resheph - Resheph was a God of War and Tunder. ❤Heka - Heka was the God of deification of magic. ❤Andjety - Underworld God of Rebirth. ❤Heryshaf - Heryshaf was an ancient creator, fertility God, and God of the riverbanks. ❤Hu - Hu was the God of taste and the personification of the divine command. ❤Shezmu - Shezmu is the Egyptian God of blood, wine, perfume, and the slaughterer servant of Osiris. ❤Aker - Aker was an ancient Egyptian God of earth and death. ❤Sia - Goddess of wisdom. ❤Banebdjedet - Banebdjedet is a ram God of fertility with a cult centre at Mendes. ❤Mehen - Mehen is a protective God who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun God Ra during his journey through the night. ❤Hermes Trismegistus - Combination of Greek God Hermes and Egyptian God Thoth Gods of writing, magic, and more. ❤Ba-Pef - Ba-Pef was a minor underworld God in Egyptian mythology. ❤Duamutef - In Egyptian mythology, Dumutef was one of the Four sons of Horus and a funerary God who protected the stomach and small intestines of mummified corpses, kept in a canopic jar. ❤Mandulis - Mandulis is a Nubian God depicted anthropomorphically wearing the hemhem crown, consisting of three atef crowns, or ‘bundles’ mounted on ram’s horns with a uraeus (cobra) on either side, each surmounted by a solar disk, or as a human-headed bird. ❤Iah - Iah is a lunar God in ancient Egyptian religion. His name simply means “Moon”. ❤Am-heh - In Egyptian mythology, Am-heh was a minor God from the underworld, whose name means either “devourer of millions” or “eater of eternity”. ❤Nephthys - Nephthys is the Egyptian Goddess of mourning and lamentation, sleep, rivers, the night, service, and the home, a friend and protector of the dead. ❤Neith - Neith was an ancient Goddess of war and weaving. ❤Serket - Serket is the Goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bites. ❤Seshat - Seshat was the ancient Egyptian Goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. ❤Heqet - Heqet is an Egyptian Goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog. ❤Nekhbet - Nekhbet was the Egyptian white vulture Goddess and protector of Egypt and the Pharaohs. She was referred to as “Mother of Mothers, who hath existed from the Beginning”. ❤Mut - In Egyptian religion, a sky Goddess and great divine mother. Mut was the mother Goddess , the queen of the Gods at Waset, arising in power with the God Amen. ❤Meretseger - Meretseger is a Goddess with head of the snake. ❤Hededet - Hededet is a scorpion Goddess of the ancient Egyptian religion. ❤Anuket - Anuket was the personification and Goddess of the Nile river in the Egyptian mythology. ❤Meskhenet - In ancient Egyptian mythology, Meskhenet was the Goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth. She was worshipped from the earliest of times by Egyptians. ❤Eye of Ra - The Eye of Ra is a being in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as a feminine counterpart to the sun god Ra and a violent force that subdues his enemies. The Eye is an extension of Ra’s power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it also behaves as an independent entity. ❤Renenutet -Renenutet was a Goddess of nourishment and the harvest in ancient Egyptian religion. ❤Amunet - Amunet was a primordial Goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. ❤Menhit - Menhit was originally a Nubian war Goddess in Egyptian mythology. ❤Hatmehit - Hatmehit in the ancient Egyptian religion was a fish-Goddess. In ancient Egyptian art Hatmehit was depicted either as a fish, or a woman with a fish emblem or crown on her head. She was a Goddess of life and protection. ❤Sopdet - Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian Goddess. ❤Anput - Anput is a Goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. She was the Goddess of funerals and mummification, the mother of Kebechet and possibly from Ammit also. ❤Hemsut - In Egyptian mythology, Hemsut was the Goddess of fate, destiny, and protection in ancient Egypt. ❤Raet-Tawy - Raet-Tawy is an ancient Egyptian solar Goddess, the female aspect of Ra. Her name is simply the female form of Ra’s name; the longer name Raet-Tawy means “Raet of the Two Lands” (Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt). ❤Wosret - Wosret meaning "the powerful" was an Egyptian Goddess with a cult centre at Thebes in Upper Egypt. She was initially a localised guardian deity. ❤Mehet-Weret - Mehet-Weret is a Goddess of the sky in ancient Egyptian religion. Her name means “Great Flood”. ❤Tenenet - Tenenet was an ancient Egyptian Goddess of childbirth and beer. ❤Werethekau - Werethekau "great one of magic, great enchantress" was an ancient Egyptian deity. She served as the personification of supernatural powers. ❤Anat - Anat is a major northwest Semitic Goddess. ❤Min - Min was the God of reproduction. ❤Qebehsenuef - Qebehsenuef "he who refreshes his brothers" is an ancient Egyptian deity. He is one of the four sons of Horus in Egyptian mythology, the God of protection and of the West. ❤Heh - Ḥeḥ was in Egyptian mythology, the personification of infinity or eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning “endlessness”. ❤Petbe - In Egyptian mythology, Petbe was the god of revenge. His name translates as Sky-Ba, roughly meaning Soul of the Sky, or Mood of the sky. ❤Tutu - God of protection of tombs, later guarded the sleeping from danger or bad dreams. Master of demons. Tutu’s iconography is anthropomorphic, consisting of the body of a striding, winged lion, the head of a human, other heads of hawks, and crocodiles projecting from the body, and the tail of a serpent. ❤Apedemak - Apedemak was a lion-headed warrior God. ❤Weneg - Weneg was a sky and death God from ancient Egyptian religion, who was said to protect the earth and his inhabitants against the arrival of the “great chaos”. ❤Hemen - Hemen is the falcon-God, who holds a cobra between its claws. ❤Tatenen - Tatenen was the God of the primordial mound in ancient Egyptian religion. His name means risen land or exalted earth, as well as referring to the silt of the Nile. As a primeval chthonic deity, Tatenen was identified with creation. He was an androgynous protector of nature from the Memphis area. ❤Bata - Bata from Saka is an Egyptian bull-God of the New Kingdom, who represents together with his brother Anubis. ❤Apis - A live bull worshipped as a God at Memphis. ❤Aten - The God disk of the sun. ❤Gengen-Wer - Goose God. ❤Hapi - God of the Nile. ❤Heket - Goddess of frogs. ❤Nut - In Egyptian mythology, Nut was the Goddess of the sky. ❤Seker - Falcon God. ❤Selket - Goddess of scorpions. ❤Sobek - God of crocodiles and alligators.

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