Goddess Serket


Goddess Serket name
Goddess Serket
Goddess Serket is the goddess of preventive poisonous sticks and bites in Egyptian mythology, earlier the apotheosis of the scorpion. Scorpion cons lead to paralysis and Serket's name describes this, as it substance [she who] reduces the throat, however, Serket's make besides can be read as thinking (she who) causes the throat to breathe, and so, as well equally being seen as stinging the unrighteous, Serket was seen as one who could cure scorpion burns and the effects of other envenoms such as snake bites. In Ancient Egyptian art, Serket was showed as a scorpion (a symbol observed on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as the protodynastic period), or as a woman with a scorpion on her head. Tthough Serket does not come along to have had several temples, she had a significant number of priests in many residential areas.

The most dangerous species of scorpion rests in North Africa, and its sting may kill, so Serket was took a highly important goddess, and was sometimes took by pharaohs to be their sponsor. Her close connexion with the early kings implies that she was their guardian, two being touched to as the scorpion kings. As the protector against poisons and snake bites, Serket ofttimes was said to protect the deities from Apep, the big snake-demon of black, sometimes being described as the guard when Apep was got.

As legion of the venomous creatures of Egypt could test fatal, Serket also was taken a defender of the dead, in particular being linked with toxicant and fluids causing rigidification. She was thus said to be the defender of the tents of embalmers, and of the canopic jar affiliated with poison the jar of the intestine which was deified later as Qebehsenuf, one of the Four sons of Horus. As the safety of one of the canopic jars and a shielder, Serket gained a strong connexion with Aset (Isis), Nebet Het (Nephthys),  and  Neith who  also  performed  similar  functions.  Eventually,  later  in  Egyptian  history  that  crossed thousands of years and whose pantheon evolved toward a merger of many deities, Serket began to be identified with Isis, communion imagery and parentage, until in conclusion, Serket got said to be merely an expression of Isis, whose cult had become very dominant.

Goddess Bat


Goddess Bat name
Goddess Bat name
Goddess Bat was a predynastic cow goddess growing in Upper Egypt  (south)  whose image  comes out on the top show  of  the Narmer Palette, the  inscribed stone that  immortalizes  the  uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 b.c. Bat has a human head and the ears and horns of a cow. She was rarely presented in Egyptian art, but when she was, her body was in the figure of the menat, the equalizer for a necklace that  was shaped  like a keyhole.  Egyptian necklaces were often large and full, so to keep them in place a equalizer would hang down the wearers back for balance. The menat also resembled the shape of the sistrum, the sacred rale, that was one of Bats ritual aims. One  of  the  names  of  Bats  cult  middle  was the House of the Sistrum. The earliest name of Bat is determined in the Pyramid Texts, in which pharaoh Unas is said to have the two faces of Bat. There are few later quotations, and as was so often the case in Egyptian mythology, the goddess Bat merged with Hathor, who became the super cow goddess.

Goddess Shai


Goddess Shai name
Goddess Shai name
Goddess Shai was an Egyptian goddess who discovered the  fate  of individuals and effects, connected with mortuary rites and the  Judgment halls of God Osiris. Shai was part of the rage of Renenet, the goddess of circumstances. Shai had powers over the living and the dead, and her name is interpreted as what is established. Considered  the guardian of shay, portion, Shai was one of the attendants of the descales upon which the goddess Maat weighed the hearts of the passed Egyptians in judging.

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.

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