Famous Pharaohs

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

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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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."