God Am-heh

A heavy Underworld god, checking to the Egyptian mythology, deity Am-heh's name  agency Devourer of Millions. He dwells in a Lake of Fire. His ferocity is heightened by having the face of a tracing dog and an appetite for sacrifices.  Only Atum can fend off Am-Heh.

God Ihy

God Ihy
Ihy was a god in ancient Egyptian mythology who symbolise the ecstasy of doing the sistrum. His name may mean "sistrum player", referring to his function, or "calf", referring to his relations with the cow goddess Hathor who was oftentimes said to be his mother. Other Egyptian goddesses power be addressed his mother, however, accepting Isis, Sekhmet, and Neith. The god Horus  was  usually  said  to  be  Ihy's  father,  though  at  times  Ra  took  that  role  rather.  Ihy  was showed as a child taking a sistrum or as a raw child with his finger's breadth in this mouth. He was idolized alongside Horus and Hathor at Dendera (See Temple of Hathor at Dendera).

God Ba-Pef

God Ba-Pef
God Ba-Pef was a minor underworld deity in Egyptian mythology. The name literally agencies that Ba, meaning that soul (ba ). Ba-Pef is commonly portrayed as an separate malicious deity famous from the Old Kingdom. In the Old and the Middle Kingdom the priesthood of Bapef was taken by queens. Reported to addresses among the Pyramid Texts he had a fad next and was associated in some means with hurt or spiritual torment affecting the pharaoh.

God Shed

God Shed appear puting
down dangerous animals
God Shed was an Egyptian god bid the Savior, the patron of deserts and the hunt. His cult developed  in Thinis, and  he  was  depicted  as  a  young prince, enduring the lock of youth. Shed hunted serpents, scorpions,  and  crocodiles,  thus  portion  as  a  pest  accountant. The god often come along in a chariot passed by 2 horses. He was sometimes called Hor-Shed, the lord of deserts and heaven.

Seker Boat

Seker Boat
It was the Hennu, a bark observed in the book of the dead. The vessel was projected with a high brow, terminating in the head of a horned animal, normally a gazelle or oryx. The Seker Boat had 3 oars. In the substance was a funerary breast with a cover  surmounted  by  the  head  of  a  clear the throat.  The  chest stood  upon  a  base  with  curved  ends,  and  the  total social system lay upon a maul with moon-curser. The pyramid texts show the Seker Boat, and bemas were erected for such vessels in Lower Egypt.

God Seker

God Seker
Seker is a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis. Although the pregnant of his name continues uncertain, the Egyptians in the Pyramid Texts related his name to the sad cry of Osiris to Isis 'Sy-k-ri' 'hurry to me', in the underworld. Seker is powerfully related with two other gods, Ptah the chief god of Memphis and Osiris the deity of the dead. In later periods this connexion was stated as the triple deity Ptah-Seker-Osiris.

Seker was commonly shown as a mummified hawk and sometimes as mound from which the head of a hawk comes out. Here he is predicted 'he who is on his sand'. Sometimes he is presented on his hennu bark which was an particular sledge  for negociate the sandy necropolis. One of his claims was 'He of Restau' which substance the place of 'openings' or tomb entrances.

Through the New Kingdom Book of the Underworld, the Amduat, he is presented standing on the back of a snake between two spread wings, as an reflection of freedom this suggests a connection with resurrection or perchance a satisfactory passage of the underworld. Despite this the region of the underworld associated with Seker was seen as difficult, sandy terrain called the Imhet (meaning 'filled up').

Seker, perchance through his affiliation with Ptah, also has a link with crafters. In the Book of the Dead he is said to fashion silver arenas and a silver coffin of Sheshonq II has been described at Tanis decorated with the iconography of Seker.

In the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments", the Pharaoh Ramses II invokes the same god to bring his broken prime son back to life, while portrayed as wearing dark blue gown with a silver submit. Seker's cult middle was in Memphis where festivals in his observe were held in the 4th month of the akhet (spring) season.  The  deity  was  shown  as  assisting  in  various  tasks  such  as  digging  trenches  and  canals.  From  the  New Kingdom a alike festival was took in Thebes.

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God Anubis

God Anubis
The Greek rendering of the Egyptian Anpu or Anup, addressed the Opener of the Way for the drawn, Anubis was the point of the afterlife. From the advance time Anubis presided over the embalming rites of the went and took galore pleas in the mortuary prayers itemized on behalf of psyches getting their way to Tuat, or the Underworld.

Anubis was commonly depicted as a black Jackal with a branched tail  or  as  a  man  with  the  head  of  a  jackal  or  a dog. In the pyramid texts Anubis was represented as the son of Ra and given a daughter, a goddess of freshness. In time he lost both of those ascribes and became break of the  Osirian  cultic  tradition,  the  son  of  Nepthys, abandoned by his mother, who had borne him to Osiris. Isis raised  him  and  when  he  was  grown  he  gone with Osiris. He aided Isis when Set pile Osiris and taken apart  his  corpse.  Anubis  invented  the  mortuary  rites  at this  time,  leading  on  the  title  of  "Lord  of  the  Mummy Wraps".  He  was  also  visited  Khenty-seh-netjer,  the Foremost of the Sacred Place (the burial chamber). He was addressed as well Neb-ta-djeser, the Lord of the Sacred Land, the necropolis.

Anubis  henceforward  ushered  in  the  went  to  the Judgment halls of Osiris. The deity staid on popular in full  periods  of  Egyptian  history  and  close  in  the  time  of foreign domination. Anubis took over the craze of Khenti-Amenttiu, an early eye tooth god in Abydos. There he was addressed  as  Tepiy-dju-ef,  he  who is  on  His  Mountain. Anubis guarded the scales upon which the souls of the dead were counted at opinion. He was a extremity of the Ennead of Heliopolis, in that city.

God Nehebu-Kau

God Nehebu-Kau
A snake-god, He who rules the spirits, whose indomitability is a source of protective cover both in Egypt and in the Underworld. In  the  Pyramid Texts  Nehebu-Kau  is addressed son  of  Selkis ,  the scorpion-goddess,  stressing  his  role in later  spells  of  reconstructing  the  health of victims  of  venomous  bites.  Protective of  royalty,  Nehebu-Kau  receives  the crowned head  in  the Afterlife  and  supplies  a meal. A Middle Kingdom spell describes the gone with this snake-god who is not taken to any magic, nor vulnerable to fire  and  water.  One  author  of  his  power consists  in  the  magical  force  of  the  number seven in  the  seven cobras  which he buried.  In  a  spell  concerning  the welfare  of  his  heart  in  the Afterlife,  the gone requests other gods to give him a good recommendation to Nehebu-Kau. There  is  a  touch  in  the  Old Kingdom that Nehebu-Kaus  power takes  to  be controlled by the sun-deity Atum promoting a fingernail on the snakes spine. Another custom makes Nehebu-Kau the son of the earth-god Geb and the harvest-goddess Renenutet. Consequently his chthonic  and  rich  power  provides other gods with their vital force.

God Weneg

A son of the sun-deity Ra determined in Old Kingdom texts. He seems to play the cosmic  order, rather alike Ras daughter Maat, by enduring the sky and so keeping the effects of chaos from crashing down onto the earth. He is also a judge of other gods, plausibly distributing the cosmic laws of Ra.

God Buchis

God Buchis
The ancient Egyptian sacred bull residing in  Erment (Hermonthis) and belowground at the necropolis of the center, Buchis was considered a Theophany or early form of the god Montu, and then designated as a manifestation of the Theban God Amun. Any bull  chose  for  the  temple  ceremonies  had  to  have  a white body and a black head from birth. A burying ground left for these animals was visited the Buchum and dominated coffins with lids weighing up to 15 tons for the continues. Other tombs were engraved out of walls to catch the animals bodies. The Buchis bull was bid the Bull of the Mountains of Sunrise and Sunset.

God Ha

God Ha
The old Egyptian god of the southwestern desert: hence his epithet Lord of the Libyans. As deity of the west, he works a part in the craze of the dead; and on sarcophagi of the Herakleopolites period he is shown sat at the right hand of the cold person, i.e. at the westward side. He is depicted in purely human form, and in the script he bears the decisive  of the desert on his head.

God Reshep

God Reshep
God Reshep or (Reshef) was  an Amorite war deity got into Egypt during the 18th Dynasty (1550-1307 B.C.E.), belike as a result of the Tuthmossid campaigns in the Near East territories. Given by the Egyptians but not popular, Reshef was showed as a warrior wearing a white crown and taking a mace and shield.

God Sobek

God Sobek
God Sobek is the Crocodile deity or Lord of Faiyum Oasis from Faiyum. Sobek was known as Suchos in Greek. The name Sobek also called in several spelling such as Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, Sobki or Soknopais. His appearance depicted as a crocodile headed man with a headdress of plumes and a sun disk. He holds an ankh, representing his power to undo evil and so cure ills. Sometimes, he represented as a mummified crocodile or a crocodile itself. As mentioned in the Pyramid Texts of Old Kingdom, Sobek was the son of Neith of Sais, who famous as crocodile god who had to be appeased to give people his protection against crocodiles. The Egyptians who gone or travelled on the Nile gone for and thought that, if they prayed to Sobek, they will be saved from being attacked by crocodiles.

The ancient Egyptians revered Sobek, the crocodile deity not just as the protector but also to insure the fertility of their people and crops. Sobek was called the Lord of Faiyum, and was considered the deity who controlled the waters.

Checking to myth, Sobek was seen a double deity who presented the four primary gods: Ra of fire, Shu of air, Geb of earth, and Osiris of water. Crocodiles were worshipped in cities that depend on water and in parts of Egypt where crocodiles were bad. Sobek cult temple was established to respect him at Kom Ombo. In this temple the dedicated crocodile were kept in the pools. This crocodile were mummified when that gone.

God Arensnuphis

God Arensnuphis
God Anthropomorphic Nubian deity wearing a plumed crown who takes place in southern temples during  the Graeco-Roman period, contemporary with  the Meroitic civilisation based around the mid-fifth to sixth cataract region.

The Egyptian rendering of his name Ari-hes-nefer gives little clue to his nature, other than being a benign deity. A early kiosk-style temple was developed in his honor on the island of Philae during the dominate of Ptolemy IV Philopator (220 BC), the blocks from the southwest enclosure wall rendering that it was a joint enterprise with the Meroitic King Arqamani (Ergamenes II). However, only the  fact  that he is a  companion of  the goddess Isis, pre-eminent god of Philae, can  be  cleared  from  the  letterings. He  is  also  presented  on a wall of Dendur temple (earlier sited introductory the first cataract of the Nile, now re-erected at the Metropolitan  Museum of Art, New York) where he follows the localized  deified  fighters  Peteese and Pihor being revered by the Roman emperor Octavius Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD).

God Hapi

God Hapi of the Southand North Egypt
Canopic Jar of Hapi (the baboon)
God Hapi the baboon headed son of Horus maintained the lungs of the went and was in turn saved by the goddess Nephthys. The spelling of his name admits a hieroglyphic which is thought to be linked with guidance a boat, although its exact nature is not experienced. For this ground he was sometimes connected with piloting, although early addresses call him the great runner: "You are the great offset; come, that you may join up my father N and not be extended in this your name of Hapi, for you are the greatest of my children  so says Horus" In Spell 151 of the Book of the Dead Hapi is given the been words to say: "I have come to be your protection. I have held your head and your branches for you. I have smitten your enemies below you for you, and given you your head, evermore". Spell 148 in the Book of the Dead directly associates all four of Horus's sons, named as the four pillars of Shu and one of the  four rudders of heaven, with the four important points of the compass. Hapi was affiliated  with  the north.

God Imhotep

God Imhotep
Imhotep was a high officer in the court of King Djoser (the third Dynasty)  who after  exaltation  becomes  the  embodiment  of  scribal  wisdom  and,  as  son  of Ptah,  of  superb  architectural  and  creative acquisition. Statue  fragments  attest  that  Imhotep was  given  the  extreme  privilege  of  his name  being  carved  aboard  that  of Djoser Netjerykhet himself. He took the offices  of  chief  executive  (vizier)  and master  sculptor    the  Egyptian  priest Manetho, who write in Greek a history of Egypt  in  the  third  century  BC,  credits Imouthes (i.e. Imhotep) with the design of  the  technique  of  building  with  cut stone. It is future he was the architect who planned  Egypts  first  big scale  stone memorial: the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Afterwards  his  death  Imhotep is remembered in Middle and New Kingdom scribal reports as the author of a book of direction a well-experienced genre of Egyptian  literature although the one referable to Imhotep has not went. In the Late Period bronzes of Imhotep show him  seated in scribal strength with a papyrus-roll open crossways his knees. This fear for him leads to his apotheosis  an highly rare phenomenon in ancient Egypt (compare Amenhotep-Son-of-Hapu, Peteese and Pihor,  and  pharaoh sections  titled  Living  king deified through ritual and Dead king deified as royal ascendents). In the Ptolemaic period Imhotep as a god is discovered in cult centres and temples passim Egypt:

1- Objects  devoted  in  his  name  are discovered in northwest Saqqara.

2- Inside Thebes where he was precious in conjunction  with  Amenhotep-Son-of-Hapu he has a sanctuary on the Upper Terrace of the temple at Deir el-Bahari and is defended in the temple at Deir el-Medina.

3- Iside Philae there is a chapel of Imhotep instantly before the eastern pylon of the temple of goddess Isis (See Philae Temples).

God Khnum

God Khnum
God Khnum was the ancient Egyptian God worshipped at Elephantine Island at Aswan, he was a creator deity feared as a ram. Khnum formed a triad with Satet and Anukis on Elephantine  Island.  His  name  meant  the  Molder, and he used a monkeys wheel to fashion the essential big egg  and  then  all  living  tools. Thoth aided  him  in this  constructive  shape  by  seeing  the  number  of  years assigned to each. Khnum's rage dates to Predynastic Period (earlier 3,000 B.C.E.), and the centers of his revere were  on  the Elephantine (Abu), at Biga, and at Esna (see Temple of Khnum at Esna). Khnum  was  the  deity of  the  first  Cataract of  the Nile and the deity of the deluges, associated with the goddesses Mert and Heket. He was named the Prince of the 2 Lands  and  the  Prince  of the House of Life. Khnum brought the Nile to Egypt finished two caverns out in  Aswan, where he was connected with Anukis and Satet.

Named too the Soul of Ra, Khnum wore the horns of the oldest species of rams in Egypt (Ovis longipes). At Esna, he had two different divine checks, Menhet and Neith. The  backups  at  the  Esna  temple  portray Khnums  formative  powers.  The  Famine Stella at  Sehel Island named prayers to Khnum in times of low Nile floods. Djoser (2630-2611  B.C.E.) was honored by  later  contemporaries  for  visiting  the  shrine  of  Khnum and  finish  a  shortage  in  his  reign.  The  people  of  Nubia incorporated  Khnum  into  their  cultic services  and  linked  him  with  their  God Dedun. Khnum  was  described  as  a  robust  man  with  a  rams head, hard ivory horns, dresses, the solar disk, and the Uraeus.

God Hu

God Hu with Renenutet
God Hu was the God who personifies the agency of a word of command. Hu came  into  being  from  a  spend  of blood from the phallus of the sun-deity Ra. When, according  to  the  theology  of the Pyramid Age, the king goes a lone star, his associate is Hu. The royal authority is held in the After life by Hu recognizing the kings supremacy and  leaving  the  monarch  to  cross  the waters of his canal.

It is inviting to correlate Hu with the power of the tongue of Ptah in the Memphite  creation caption, upper the universe into world, at the abettal of Ptahs heart.

God Tutu

God Tutu
God Tutu was an Egyptian defender god, Tutu  is  a  late figure  of  the  god Shu.  He  is  often  shown  as  a  man wearing  the  tall  atef  cap  with  a  uraeus  and sun disks, and he sometimes holds his finger to his mouth,  similar  to  Harpocrates,  Horus  the  child. He is likewise showed in the form of a striding sphinx who treads down small monsters under his feet. A great temple dedicated to Tutu was developed in the town of Kellis in Egypts Dakhla Oasis.

God Mandulis

God Mandulis
Sun God of Nubian stocks, mainly recalled from his inclusion into Ancient Egyptian religious belief. Mandulis was to a big degree a deity worked on the pattern of Horus. His particular Nubian name was Marul. His importance is mainly linked with Roman sentences, when he was raised as a high god, serious the more ancient gods of Amun, Ra and Osiris. His fame would last as long as the Romans kept Nubia under their see, from about advanced 1st century BCE until late 3rd century.

Promoting his importance, Mandulis was oftentimes linked with Isis, then at some cost of Osiris who had his tomb and a cult centre in the area, but which came to be more and more broken. Still, Mandulis temple was also gave to Osiris. He had his main cult placed to his temple at Kalabsha, and within its constructions, a House of Mandulis and Isis was found. Also, constructed into the arcade of the Temple of Isis at Philae, there was besides a chapel of Mandulis. Mandulis is represented in a human form, with two ram's horns and with upright Struthio camelus plumes. He is, furthermore, experienced for being introduced as either a child, or as an older man.

God Wepwawet

Wepwawet present scepters to King Seti I
God Wepwawet was a jackal-like funerary deity, whose name means "opener of the ways". Unlike Anubis, who was also jackal-like, Wepwawet was shown with a gray or white head. This takes some to consider that he may have primitively been associated with the wolf. Through the 12th Dynasty, Wepwawet was superseded by Khentyamentiu, a mummiform god, as the deity of the Abydos necropolis and then in the end by Osiris himself. deity Wepwawet was the nome deity for the 13th nome of Upper Egypt, which the Greeks named "Lycopolis" (Wolf City).

The role of God Wepwawet was to protect and lead the broken through the Underworld (thus his name). He also companied the king while hunting and while in this capacity was addressed "the one with the strong arrow who is more severe than the gods." Wepwawet was besides thought of as a messenger and the best of royalty. Like Shu, he was stated to be "the one who has separated the sky from the earth."

God Ptah

God Ptah
God Ptah was the god of ancient Egypt in Memphis, called Ptah-Sokar in a double make and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris in the double  style,  Ptah  appointments  to  the  earliest  dynastic  periods  of Egypt and perchance earlier. A intelligent theology made Ptah  pretty  obscure  to  the  regular  Egyptian.  The Memphite teachings concerning Ptah were broken on a stella, which explained the cosmology and the cult of the region. According to these tenets, Ptah was the only right  god,  the  creator,  and  all  spiritual  beings,  divine  or human, emanated from his will. The creation deities idolized in other cities were suspect to have been formulated by Ptah. This deity was also the source of the ethical and moral orders in the world, and he was visited the Lord of Truth in all historical periods. He was deemed capable of working forth life with words, as the tongue asserted what the gods heart knew.

Memphis,  the  cult  substance  of  Ptah,  was  visited  Hiku-Ptah,  or  Hat-Ka-Ptah,  the  house  of  the  soul  of  Ptah. Statues  and  reliefs  depicting  the  god  shown  him  as  a man  with  very  light  skin,  sometimes  green,  mummy wrappers, and an super collar with the menat. Most characterizations  of  Ptah  were  contrived  as  pillars,  emblems  of justice. Called the First of the Gods, Ptah was a patron of the  great  architectural  monuments  of  the  Old Kingdom (2575-2134 B.C.E.).

As Tatenen he was revered as the creative recommend, both for  the  world  and  for  the  several  works  of  art.  Likewise called Hetepi and Khnemi, Ptah was associated with the chaos  that  went  before  the  second  of  creation,  and was  then  visited  Ptah-Nun.  When  linked  with  the Nile,  the  god  was  worshipped  as  Ptah-Hapi;  with  the earth as Ptah-Tenen; and with the solar disk, addressed Ptah-Aten. The deity was likewise reputable in the great complexes of Amun in Thebes.

God Montu

God Montu
God Montu was a war deity of ancient Egypt, seeing to the Middle  Kingdom (2040-1640  B.C.E.). The pharaohs of the 11th Dynasty (2040-1991 B.C.E.)  were  particularly given to this god. Montu originated in Thebes and had  two  runs, Tjenenyet  and Rattawy. He was  normally  shown as a man  with  a  clears the throat  head, inflamed with plumes and a sun disk. The Buchis fakes were worshiped  as  theophanies of  Montu  In the New  Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.), Montu was associated  with  the  god Ra and was named as Montu-R. The deity was in the beginning part of the cult of Horus at Thebes.

God Aker

God Aker
God Aker embraces the world - he is represented as the sign of the view in-between two lions (sometimes these possibly human forms rather) which are sat back to back (one animal faces west - where the sun sets each day and starts its journey into the night and Underworld, the other lion faces the eastern where the sun rises each morning free once less told from the realm of darkness). Ancient Egyptian mythologists believed that during the night the sun journeyed finished a tunnel that existed in the earth - its entry into the tunnel caused the night, its emergence again contributing the day once again. Each end of this burrow was defended by a lion god, and the two gods were called Akeru (also famous as Akherui):

Aker is an old god from ancient Egypt - he is first observed in the Pyramid Texts, and from the transits in which his name happens is thought that he had a very clear and well fixed role in the Early Egyptian kingdoms.

In the afterward period of Egyptian theology the two lions cooking the Akeru were named Sef and Tuau - 'yesterday' and 'today' respectively. Because the ancient Egyptians believed that Aker restrained the gates of the morning and night, statues of the lion god were set at the doors of houses and besides at tombs to guard both the enduring and the dead from evil spirits and more eartherly foes. These lion protectors were sometimes broken the head of women and men  which turned them into a more identifiable form - that of the Sphinx.

God Nefertum

God Nefertum
God of the earlier lotus blossom. The name of Nefertum has the notion of ne plus ultra. He is the blue lotus out of which, fitting  to  one  myth,  the  sun rises. In a description in the Pyramid Texts Nefertum is the lotus bloom in front of the nose of Ra  the textual level of courtiers  holding  the  plant  in  their  hand and ventilation in the wind of the lotus. In art  Nefertum  is  normally  anthropomorphic  heavy  a  head-dress  in  the  process of the  lotus  plant,  embroidered  with  two prides  and  two  necklace counterpoises (Hathoric symbolisation of fertility).

God Nefertum sometimes described lion-headed  by  connection  with  leonine mother goddesses: at Memphis god Nefertum is the son of the lioness-goddess Sakhmet and, though it is never explicitly expressed, he  turns  by  significance  the  child  of the  union  of  the  goddess  and Ptah.  At Buto in the Delta Nefertum is the special son  of  Wadjet,  a  cobra-goddess  who  can have leonine form. Likewise the feline goddess Bastet has a require to being the gods mother.  As  a  child,  he  can  be depicted seated on a lotus blossom, aware of the young sun god.

God Min

God Min
God Min was Egyptian early fertility deity, Min was fast for the fecundity of the subjects and animals in  ancient  Egypt.  The  earliest  house  for  Min  was  a fetish, an object believed to have magical belongings and  that  resembled  a  door  bolt.  But  later  Min  was was  as  a  partially  mummiform  see  who holds his set member, a symbol of fertility, with his left hand patch his right hand holds a increased flail to smite his foes. Min bears a flat crown with two tall plumes and wafts hanging down. From the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 b.c.) on, he was connected with long-leafed lettuce, which usually was found on his extending table. The Pyramid Texts name to Min as he Whose Arm is Increased in the East. Mins cult central was at Koptos, and excavations at the temple website  have  got  three  colossal statues engraved in limestone that may be the early sculptures of the  deity.

In the Middle Kingdom (2055-1650  b.c.),  the assigns  of  Min  and  Horus,  the  falcon  god,  were engaged.  Horus  was  seen  as  the  deity  of  the  southeastern Delta,  Min  was  the  deity  of  the  east  desert,  and the new god was visited Min-Horus, the guardian of mining dispatches into the Sinai.

During  the  pharaohs  investiture  solemnisation  in the  New  Kingdom  (1550-1069  b.c.),  an  elaborate advance and feast honored Min so that his virility would  be  passed  to  the  new  pharaoh.  The  festival is entered on the 2nd pylon of the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramses II (1279-1213 b.c.), and  besides  in the temple  of Ramses III at Medinet Habu in  Thebes,  which  shows  Ramses III  in  a  palanquin (carrying  chair)  leading  the  royal  palace  in  a  grand advancement to the temple. The statue of Min sits in his  shrine  and  is  carried  by  priests  with  long  poles over their shoulders that support the shrine. When they reach the public area, two priests holding a linen drapery hide the statue of Min from view while other priests  chant  anthems.  Then  the  tabby  appears  with the White Bull, an animal sacred to Min, and they idolize the kings antecedents before the investiture. Toward  the  end  of  the  solemnisation,  four  sparrows are set free to fly to the four corners of the land and herald  the  new  sovereign.  In  Thebes,  the  great god Amun was at various times linked with Min as well.

God Maahes

God Maahes
God Maahes was a lion God and the son of goddess Bastet. He was shown as a lion or a lion-headed man. When read as a lion-headed man, Maahes would don a short kilt and any one of a come of headdresses. He would frequently be shown holding a stab and with a sweetness of lotuses close him.

He assisted Ra in the daily battle against Apophis. Maahes was a god of war and a sponsor of worthy places. A late Greek text named him as a deity of forces and darkness.

God Maahes was the local god of Leontopolis (Taremu) in Nome 11 of Lower Egypt. The ancient constructions have not been well kept, and there is some fence on the age of the temple destroys. There may have been a temple to Maahes in Leontopolis as earlier as the 18th Dynasty. Osorkon III constructed a temple was built for him in the 23rd dynasty in Bubastis (the precious town of Bastet).

God Heka

God Heka
God Heka was the exaltation of magic in Egyptian  mythology,  his  name "Heka" being  the  Egyptian  word  for  "magic". Fitting to Egyptian writing  Heka was "before dichotomy  had  yet  come  into  being."  The  term  "Heka"  was  likewise  used  for  the practice of magical ritual. The Coptic word "hik" is derived from the Ancient Egyptian. Heka literally means responsible the Ka, the view of the soul which embodied personality. Egyptians thought responsible the power of the person was how magic worked.  "Heka"  also  involved  great  power  and  influence,  particularly  in  the case of ranging upon the Ka of the gods. Heka acted together with Hu, the principle of divine utterance, and Sia, the conception of divine omniscience, to create the ground of plastic power both in the individual world and the world of the deities.

As the one who triggers Ka, Heka was besides said to be the son of Atum, the creator of things in widespread, or now and then the son of Khnum, who created special individual Ba (another view of the soul). As the son of Khnum, his mother was very to be Menhit.

The  hieroglyph  for  his  name  featured  a  twist  of  flax  inside  a  couple  of  mounted arms;  however,  it  also  mistily  resembles  a  pair  of  intertwined  snakes  within someone's arms. Consequently, Heka was said to have combated and conquered two serpents, and was usually represented as a man dying two giant intertwined snakes. Medicine and doctors were considered to be a form of magic, and so Heka's priesthood performed these bodily functions.

Egyptians believed that with Heka, the activating of the Ka, an view of the soul of both gods and humans, (and divine  personification  of  magic),  they  could  mold  the  gods  and  gain  shelter,  healing  and  transmutation. Health and haleness of being were worthy to Heka. There is no word for religion in the ancient Egyptian language, material and religious world views were not distinct; thus Heka was not a secular practice but rather a divine observance. Every face of life, every word, plant, animal and ritual was connected to the power and agency of the gods.

God Iah

God Iah
God Iah is the ancient Egyptian God of the moon. His names translate into the Egyptian word of the moon. Off-the-wall spellings of his name include Iah, Aa, Ah, Aos, Yah, Iah Tehuti or Iah Te-huti that may also mean collar, defender or to embrace. He is connected with other lunar gods including Thoth and Khonsu who may have occulted his popularity. He is sometimes considered to be the adult form of the child moon god Khonsu who finally assimilated his functions. He is also believed to be the student of the deity of wisdom, Thoth who too absorbed some of his functions. However, scorn his waning next over the course of Egyptian history, Iah rests to be a repair in Egyptian amulets and hieroglyphs. He is frequently presented as a man with a tight proper garment wearing a peak made of a sun disk with a crescent moon on top of it. Sometimes, he is seen heavy the Atef crown passed by moon resting on a full, long, tripartite wig. He may also be seen carrying a long staff.

His universe was further proven when he was named in the Book of the Dead telling, I am the moon-god Iah, the dweller among the deities.

Iah is credited for having created the particular Egyptian calendar. The said calendar is spread into 12 months with 30 days each month. In one of the myths, Nut, the sky and Geb, the earth were siblings, who were put away in what seemed like an eternal address. Their almost shatterproof bond galled their father, the sun God Ra, who execrated their incestuous family relationship. He blessed them that will never bear children on any day of the year when they extended their family relationship despite his dislike. Nut and Geb sought resort in Thoth, the deity of wisdom and noesis. Thoth invented a plan to gamble with the creator of the calendar, Iah. The wager was that Iah would give Thoth five days of his moonlight if he won. Thoth won and the five days went the inessential five days of the year. Nut was able to bear children on every day because it was not treated by the curse of Ra. She gave birth to Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys and Horus the elder on each day. These days were thought to be introduced in the month of July having all of them July infants.

God Aten

The rays of Aten
God Aten was an ancient Egyptian solar deity that some Egyptologists trust was a form of Re-Horakhty, otherwise solar god. However, Aten was real specifically affiliated with the suns rays rather than with its other properties and was therefore oftentimes  depicted  as  a  shining  solar  disk with rays as limbs. The ends of these shafts were the deities hands, which typically took the ankh, symbolic of life.

Aten was first idolized during the Old Kingdom, but at that time he was a comparatively minor deity. During the New Kingdom, yet, Aten began to rise to bulge, and by the 18th Dynasty reign of Amenhotep III he was worshipped by an Aten cult stood by the kings wife Tiy. When King Amenhotep III's son Amenhotep IV took the throne, he exchanged his name to Akhenaten, or He who Serves Aten, to honor the deity and then determined that only Aten should be worshiped passim Egypt. By Akhenatens dominate, temples devoted to other gods were involved and sometimes damaged or even lost. However, the  priests  of  these  temples  were  not asked to process the new religion, because Akhenaten express himself the sole go-between between Aten and humans.

God Mnevis

God Mnevis
God Mnevis was Egyptian God, to begin with called "Mer-wer" or "Nem-ur",  the  Living Sun god,  Mnevis  was  linked with Ra, and visited the Soul of Ra. Mnevis was represented in rites by a bull that was idolized at Heliopolis. This Bull was 2nd in rank to Apis and was taken a true oracle. The mother cow applying birth to a Mnevis bull, which had to be alone black and had to have tufts of  hair  on  its  body  and  tail,  was  thought  to  have  been translated into Hesat, a cow goddess. The Mnevis fuzz was so modern as part of the solar craze of R-Atum that King Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.) express that some animals should be buried at his capital, Amarna (Akhetaten).

Most Mnevis bulls were belowground in Heliopolis, in a necropolis under the modern place of Cairos Arab al-Taweel. A stela of Prince Ahmose, considered to be the princely son of  Amenhotep II (1427-1401 B.C.E.), was  discovered in that respect. King Ramses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.) got the usage of erecting  stone  social structures  over  normal  pits,  and all bull was buried in a large chamber dressed with reliefs. The pits were necessary because of the cool terrain of  the area. Merenptah (1224-1214  B.C.E.)  buried  a Mnevis  copper  during  his  rule,  building a  limestone  sarcophagus  for  the  internment.  The  various  backups  and worthy  paintings  represented  the  Mnevis  pig  with  a  sun disk and the uraeus on its horns. Mnevis was connected with Osiris in some historical periods and continued popular end-to-end the Late Period (712-332 B.C.E.).

God Wadj-wer

God Wadj-wer is an Egyptian fertility rate god whose name agency the "Great Green". Sometimes shown in androgynous form, he is a personification of the Mediterranean Sea or of the leading lakes of the Nile delta. He is showed as having the ankh amulet and a lounge. Wadj-wer is often drawn as being pregnant and is associated with the magnificence of the waters of the Nile delta of Egypt.

God Kherty

God Kherty (or Cherti meaning "Lower one") was an ancient Egyptian earth deity and a god of the Scheol who sailed the boat which carried the decased on their past journey. He was linked with Aken, and may have been discovered as an face of that god at one time. Yet, he was also an uncertain god who both held the pharaohs tomb and open the Pharaoh on his journey into the Scheol. It was thought that Ra, the sun god, himself had to interfere to check the kings rubber.

God Kherty was shown as a ram or a man with the head of a tup (representing the "Ba" or individual). His craze center was in Leotopolis, and he may have been the source of narrative of other pretend ferrymen - particularly Charon from Greek mythology. He was especially prominent during the Old Kingdom when he was meant to share the find of the underworld with Osiris. He ruled over the entry to the underworld and the chambers running to the Halls of Maat while Osiris felt over the lands of the blessed dead who passed the tribulations and were prooved to be worthy. He was also connected with Khnum, mostly because he took the form of a Ram.

God Heryshaf

God Heryshaf
God Heryshaf meaning  ("He who is on his lake") In Egyptian mythology. It is recorded in Greek as "Harsaphes" was an ancient ram-god whose cult was middle in Herakleopolis Magna (now Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah). He was identifed with Ra and Osiris in Egyptian mythology, and to Heracles in Greek mythology. The recognition with Heracles may be concerned to the fact that in afterwards times his figure was some times reanalyzed as "He who is over strength." One of his titles was Ruler of the Riverbanks. Heryshaf was a creator and fecundity god who was born from the earliest waters. He was showed as a man with the head of a ram, or as a drive.

God Apis

God Apis
God Apis was the greek name for the worthy bull of Memphis. Egyptian Hapi. The bull was the living shape of the god Ptah and after death was placed  with Osiris.  He  was  established  by  distinct  signs  and domiciliate  in  the  temple complex.  Upon  his  dying,  a  new  bull  was sought born near the time of death of the old. The bulls were forgot in the Serapeum at Saqqara. The mother of the bull was also fit special honors, and the burial catacombs for the cows were discovered by a British expedition in the 1970s. The cult is knew from the first dynasty, but it grown especially important during the Late Period.

Amun as a Creator

The gods  temple  Ipet-Sut  is  predicted  by Hatshepsut on her obelisk hill of the start,  indicating  that  it  was  the set  where  Amun  took  the  cosmos into existence. Hymns from the late New Kingdom emphasise the role of Amun as a primeval deity, making sky and earth by his  thoughts.  The  phenomenon of  the annual Nile flood, and the blowing of  the  north  wind  upriver  derive  from Amuns nature as elusive to determine  as the air, which, alike all the other gods, is but  a  reflection of the  deep Amun. Guess on Amun as a universal  super  deity  brought  the  Egyptian theologiser very close to the concept of monotheism, although they never considered the steps that would exclude all other deities from the temples. The worship of Amun in this prospect was henotheism in Egyptian terms  turning ones tightness onto the  superb  deity  while  not  denying  that he has provided a myriad of other God to be honoured  as  tell  of  his breeding power.

Amun King of the Gods

Amun king of the gods put Amenhetep III to the throne
In the New Kingdom the divinity of Amun was  enhanced  by  reading  him  as  a mysterious  demonstration  of  the  ancient sun-god  of  Heliopolis. The  name  of  the deity is given the additional symbolisation of the solar disk. The solar connexion is found in imagery of Amun and the lion, the sun-gods  creature: Amun  is  called  a  fierce red-eyed  lion.  Amun  as  sun-deity  is the substance of a description practiced to him in the Book of  the Dead as eldest of the gods of the northeastern sky. During the rule of Amenhotep III  in the 18th Dynasty  two brothers,  Suti  and  Hor,  were  architects took in the memorial of Amun now named Luxor temple. On a granite stella in the  British  Museum  they  illustrate  the important  and  it  led  to  Amun  being involved  as  the  pre-eminent  god  of  the pantheon. His style king of the deities (first occurrent  in  the  White  Chapel  of Senwosret I of the twelfth Dynasty) illustrates his superb  status.  The  Egyptian  title  for Amun-Ra king of the gods was Amon-Ra  nesu  netjeru which  lies  down  the Greek  version  of  Amonrasonther.  This sovereignty is also got by an name first found in the Middle Kingdom, Lord of  the  Thrones  of  the  Two  Lands (i.e. Upper  and  Lower  Egypt  are  associate  his swing). Later it was natural for the Greek writers  like  Herodotus  and  Plutarch  to rationalise Amun  by  tracing  that  he was Olympian Zeus among the Egyptians. This recognition with the Greek deity is held  into  the  Roman  period. Minings  at Tell  el-Farama  south-east of Port Said revealed evidence of a temple to the chief deity Zeus Casius. The site is to  be  equated  with  ancient  Pelusium, a name  deriving  from  the  Egyptian description thinking house of Amun

Amun in Greece Period

Zeus (picture of Amun in Greece Period)
Amun taken a temple and a statue, the talent of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, and  opposite  at  Sparta,  the  indweller  of  which,  as Pausanias says, conferred with the oracle of God Amun in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks. At Aphytis, Chalcidice, Amun was worshipped, from the time of Lysander (d. 395 BC), as zealously as in Ammonium.  Pindar  the  poet  respected  the  god  with  a  hymn.  At Megalopolis  the  god  was  described  with  the  head  of  a  ram, and the Greeks of Cyrenaica dedicated at Delphi a chariot with a statue of Amun God.

Such was its report among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Macedonian journeyed  there  after  the  battle  of  Issus  and  during  his occupation of Egypt, where he was express "the son of Amun" by the prophet.  Alexander  thenceforth  taken  himself  divine.  Even  during this  occupation,  Amun,  named  by  these  Greeks  as  a  form  of Zeus, continued to be the serious local deity of Thebes.

Several words derive from Amun via the Greek shape, Amun, such as ammonia and ammonite. The Romans named the ammonium chloride they  gathered  from  deposits  near  the  Temple  of  Jupiter  Amun  in ancient Libya sal ammoniacus (salt of Amun) because of propinquity to the nearby temple. Ammonia, as well as being the chemical, is a knees name in the foraminifera. Both these foraminiferans (crushed Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral plates resembling a ram's, and Amun's, horns. The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are visited the cornu ammonis literally "Amun's Horns", attributable to the horned show of the dark and light bands of multicellular layers.

Worship of Amun

Worship of Amun was widespread and the pharaohs presented the cult with land a part of the booty from conquering. One of the essential situations in the cult was the gods wife of Amun and the queen or queen-mother frequently fimagecentered this role. These women advanced power and portrayals show them making offers to gods.

Two fetes at Thebes taken the images of Amun and other gods traveling to other places:

1- During the Enjoyable Fete of the Valley, images of the Thebean Triad were drawn of Karnak. They traveled on a boat, across the Nile, to visit the mortuary temples on the west trust.

2- At the celebration of the Opet Festival, Amun traveled from the Big Temple at Karnak to the temple at Luxor. This festival celebrated the precious marriage between the deity (Pharaoh) and the gods wife (the queen).

Temples of Amun

Temples of Amun paid to Amun were constructed throughout Egypt, and Ramses II built or rebuilt different of them. Three of these temples are those at Deir el-Medina, Luxor and Karnak:

1- Deir el-Medina is located on the western bank of the Nile across from Thebes and good the Valley of the Kings. Ramses II developed this temple and two given to the other extremities of the Thebean Triad.

Amuns temple at Luxor
2- Amuns temple at Luxor was first built round 1500 BC and has been an open religious site up to the face day. People worshipped a special version of Amun, named Amenemope (Amun of Opet). Two names for the Luxor Temple are the Place of Privacy or the Southern Opet. This temple was in the heart of ancient Thebes and a prosodion road related it to Karnak.

3- The temple complex at Karnak is the largest temple complex constructed by humans and the Great Temple of Amun is its top jewel. Generations of pharaohs brought to or rebuilt sections of this temple. Criosphinxes (sphinxes with drive heads) line one of the processional ways. Various courts, obelisks, and pylons, carved with hieroglyphics, are role of this temple. Individual temples are division of this complex accepting one given to Aten. Akhenaten established it during the first 5 years of his predominate, before he moved the capital to Amarna (In Minya).

Amun a Fertility God

Amun a God of Fertility
Afterwards, when Egypt captured Kush, they discovered the chief deity of the Kushites as Amun. This Kush deity was depicted as ram-headed, more specifically a woolly ram with curved horns so God Amun grown associated with the ram. Indeed, due to the aged appearance of the Kush ram deity, the Egyptians came to trust that this image had been the original form of Amun and, that Kush was where he had been born. Since rams were seen a symbol of manfulness due to their furrowing behavior, Amun besides gone thought of as a fertility deity, and thus started to steep the identity of Min, becoming Amun-Min. This association with virility led to Amun-Min gaining the epithet Kamutef, meaning Bull of his mother, in which form he was found shown on the walls of Karnak, ithyphallic, and with a scourge, as Min was.

As the cult of Amun got in importance, Amun became discovered with the chief deity who was favorite in other regions during that period, Ra-Herakhty, the merged identity operators of Ra, and Horus. This designation led to another fusion of identities, with Amun becoming Amun-Ra. In the Hymn to Amen-Ra he is discovered as "Lord of truth, father of the Gods, maker of men, creator of totally animals, Lord of things that are, creator of the staff of life." By then Ra had been described as the father of Shu, Tefnut, and the rest of the Ennead, so Amun-Ra alike, became discovered as their father.

Ra-Herakhty had been a solar deity and this nature grown ascribed to Amun-Ra as well, Amun becoming considered the hidden aspect of the sun during the night, in demarcation to Ra-Herakhty as the open look during the day. Amun clearly meant the one who is hidden. This complexity over the sun led to a gradual movement toward the living of a more perfect form of deity.

By the later part of the 18th dynasty, the pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV) disliked the power of the temple of God Amun and modern the worship of the Aten, a deity whose power was manifested in the sun disk, both literally and symbolically. He defaced the symbolisation of many of the old deities and located his religious applies upon the deity, the Aten. He moved his capitol off from Thebes, but this heavy change was very unpopular with the priests of Amun, who now seen themselves without any of their gone power. The religion of Egypt was inexorably close to the leadership of the country, the pharaoh being the drawing card of both. The pharaoh was the fullest priest in the temple of the capital and the next lower level of divine leaders were important advisers to the pharaoh, many being executives of the bureaucracy that ran the country.

When Akhenaten died, the priests of Amun confirmed themselves. His name was took from Egyptian records, all of his religious and governmental modifications were out, and the capitol was given to Thebes. The return to the previous capital and its sponsor deity was set so swiftly that it looked this almost monotheistic cult and its governmental reforms had never existed. Worship of the Aten finished and adoration of Amun-Ra was repaired. The priests of Amun even persuaded his young son, Tutankhaten, whose name entailed (the living image of Aten) - and who later would went a pharaoh - to change his name to King Tutankhamun, (the living image of Amun).

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