God Atum

God Atum

God Atum was one of  the  earliest  deities  in Egypt,  an  earth  god  also  called  "Tum",  deity Atum existed  alone  in  the  getting  of  time,  floating  inert  in the  watery  chaos  of Nun or  Nu.  A  self-generating  deity, open also of self-impregnation, his name meant Completed One. Atum raised alone on the site of his temple at Heliopolis.

A 20th  Dynasty  (1196-1070  B.C.E.)  papyrus that was replicated in the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 B.C.E.) nations that Atum developed alone, placing of the chaos of Nun. He engendered the gods Shu and Tefnut. They created Geb and Nut, who begat Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. These  gods  processed  the  Ennead of  Heliopolis, joined by Horus or Ra. For this reason Atum was named "the plural of the plural".

In the Old Kingdom period (2575-2134 B.C.E.), Atum was related with the cult of Ra, idolized as Atum-R. He was drawn as a man hard the double crown of Egypt and having a royal scepter and the Ankh. Atum was a work of the deity Ra as the setting sun, and he also come out  as  a  mongoose. The  creator  of  all  of  the  Nile deities, Atum was later connected with cults of Ptah and then Osiris.

God Anhur

God Anhur

God Anhur or (Onuris) was a warrior sky god whose primary cult center was good Abydos. Onuris was much famous with the sky god Shu and was called the "son of Re. His name implied "He Brought Back the Distant One" (an alternative translation is "Sky-Bearer"). This is a mention to the myth in which Shu, as Onuris, thought Tefnut when she ran out to Nubia. Onuris' fit, Mekhit, was oftentimes identified with Tefnut, and both goddesses were represented as lioness-headed women. With Shu's solar connection, deity Onuris went seen as a warrior expression of the sun-deity Re. He was depicted in Egyptian artwork as a bearded, spear-wielding man. He was much shown with his one of both of his arms upraised and made to strike at the enemies of Egypt. Onuris wore an aggrandized robe and a crown with four high plumes.

As a warrior god, he was described with Horus. Onuris was seen as a shielder of the people against foemen, evil spirits and pests. At fetes honoring him, mock battles were staged.

God Anhur gone very modern during the New Kingdom. He was addressed "Savior", and the bad people considered that he was a savior from their human charges. His Egyptian name was "Anhur" and the Greeks addressed him Onuris. The Greeks connected him with their deity of war, Ares. Following the fall of the New Kingdom, he remained very popular. During the Roman Era the Emperor Tiberius was depicted on the walls of Egyptian temples wear the diagnostic four-plumed crown of Onuris.

God Set

God Set

God Set an Egyptian God,  likewise  recorded as  Seth,  which  meant  instigator of confusion,  he  was the son of Geb and Nut and the brother of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. The Greeks connected him with Typhon, and Set was regarded as both good and bad. First qualified in Naqada, Set was idolise in the Predynastic Period, in front 3000 B.C.E. In the Osirian tradition he late Osiris, fought Horus, and was labeled by the other gods. Set was exiled to the outer margins  of  the  universe.  He  was  a  withstander  of Re, however, and he grown the patron of the Hyksos of Avaris. Kom Ombo was a major cult heart of Set as he was given Upper Egypt by Geb and gone black it to Horus. In the  pyramid tets he  is  named  both  evil  and  good, going  dark  during  the  Third  Intermediate  Period (1070-712  B.C.E.).  In  some  eras  he  was  assorted  with the  hitting  of  Apophis, the  wicked  serpent  that  made daily  attempts  to  ruin  the  deity  Re.  During  the Ramses Period (1307-1070 B.C.E.) he was considered as the god of foreign lands and was purportedly united to the goddess Nephthys. As a love god he was frequently aroused by the use of chants, Amulets, and charms.

He  is  best  knew,  nevertheless,  for  his  part  in  the Osiris  cult.  Set  cold  Osiris  and  set  his  coffin adrift. When Isis discovered the body and rejuvenated it, Set cut the flesh to parts and hid them. Isis discovered all of Osiris except  for  his  phallus  and  brought about  his  resurrection.  Horus,  the  son  of  Osiris,  then  set  about  seeking revenge and Osiris pleaded a type against Set before the gods. Cult  centers  for  Set  were  located  along caravan paths  and  in  the  western  oases.  He  was increased to a open deity when King Ramses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.) observed him at the new capital, Pe-Ramses, in the east Delta.  In  time,  the  frequent  Osirian  cult  led  to  the fall of the Set cult. Set had his own observing, a group that fought fake battles with the Followers of Horus at festivals. The Set recommends always lost.

God Tatenen

God Tatenen

God Tatenen an ancient earth deity been the primeval pile, Tenen was the symbol for the rich Nile silt that emerged when the river receded after the flood. His name means illustrious Earth. He is presented as a man with 2 plumes and rams horns on his head. Sometimes his skin is painted green, representing his connection with flora. Originating in Memphis, Tenen was soon related with Ptah in his manifestation as a  creator deity.

God Sia

God Sia, one of ancient Egyptian gods, was the deification of percept in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogeny and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny. He also had a connexion with writing and was oftentimes shown in anthropomorphic form holding a papyrus scroll. This papyrus was opinion to embody intellectual achievements. It was said that Atum created the two deities Sia and Hu from his blood spilled while cutting his own penis, a possible reference to circumcision.

Sia appeared regular on the Solar barge during its journey over the night in New Kingdom Hades texts and tomb decorations, together with Hu, the "creative utterance," and Heka, the deity of magic. These deities were seen as some powers assisting the creator, and although deity Heka had his individual cult Sia did not.

God Geb

God Geb

God Geb was one of the key gods of the Ennead, a family of nine deities revered in the city of Heliopolis start in the Early Dynastic Period. According to the Creation myth of this city, Geb's father, Shu, set out Geb from Geb's lover and sister, Nut, the goddess of the sky, and increased her up from his reposing body to form the spheres. In some versions of the myth, Geb's pain over this separation did him to fall on his face and weep profusely, thereby creating the oceans; the flat of his back as he lay prone grown  land.  Prior  to  their  separation, though, Geb and Nut made 2 sons and  2  daughters,  all  of  whom  were divinities: Osiris, Seth, Nephthys, and Isis.

As the father of god Osiris, the Egyptian God of the dead, Geb was finally knew  throughout  Egypt  as  a  major deity  and  grown  the  taken  of  other myths, one of which supplied the model for royal succession. Geb was said to have held the throne in the divine realm for a time and then went his rule on to his  son  Osiris,  just  as  human  kings gone their crowns on to their sons. Because  of  his  position,  many  kings  of Egypt strongly named with Geb, and in some times and places Egypt's kings were said to be Gebs heirs. Maybe for this reason, Geb was near always showed as having a human form, although in a few works of art he is shown with a goose atop his head. The goose was a source  to  a  myth  in  which  Geb addressed the Great Cackler made a cosmic egg that made the sun.

God Nun

God Nun

God Nun personating  the previous  waters  out  of  which  issued the creator god. Nun  is  called  father  of  the  gods but this  emphasizes  only  his  unrivalled antiquity  as  an  element  of  the  Egyptian in  terms  of  importance  he  is superseded  by  the  creator  sun deity. Nun has a continual existence natural by mythology or results and plays no part in religious rituals, owning no temples  or  priesthood.  When  defended  on tomb  walls  or  in  religeeious  papyri,  Nuns arms stuff the sun at the twelfth hour of the nighttime into the horizon to begin its journey in the day-boat.

God Mehen

Mehen keeping the bark of Ra

God Mehen was a coiled serpent-deity preservative the boat in which the sun-deity  Ra travels over the Hades. His coils envelope the kiosk on the decorate of the boat. The earliest quotation of the deity comes in a Coffin Text of the Middle Kingdom. Certain representation of the coiled one can be found in vignettes of funerary papyri and on the ramparts of tombs in the Valley of the Kings, specially  Seti I 19th Dynasty ,  and Ramses VI 20th Dynasty.

God Shezmu

The grape pressing, closely
linked to the cult of Shesmu,
on the walls of Nakht's tomb

God Shezmu was the Violent  god of wine and unguent-oil promotes. Shezmu is a divinity with a double personality  who  can  both  present  cruelty  and provide  benefits.  These  contrasts  are apparent as early as the Pyramid Era and coexist down to the Roman period. He is normally  envisaged  as  hominid but in the older period of Egyptian civilization  a  lion-iconography  of  this  deity goes more popular. In the spell in the Old Kingdom pyramids where the king draws extra divine strength  by  eating  tried  deities  and powerful beings, it is Shezmu as butcher who issues them up and makes them for the monarch  on  the  evening  hearth  stones. Also in the Pyramid Texts he brings the king  grape  juice  for  wine  production. There is evidence from a bowl found near the Step Pyramid that at this clip Shezmu already had a priesthood. By the Middle Kingdom  his  fad  had  went  well tried in the Faiyum.

From  the  Coffin  Texts  there  is  the living  image  of  an  Scheol  demon who squeezes out heads like grapeshots and who  lassoes  sinners  for  the  slaughter-block. A Fantastic Papyrus (Dynasty XXI) describes this vengeful aspect of the wine-press  god  by  display  two  hawk deities twisting the net of the wine fight which  takes  three  human  heads rather  of  grapes  and  explains  to  the Egyptian  brain  the  red  beam  of  the  sky after old.

God Ash

God Ash

God Ash was God of the western Desert of Egypt accepting  the  breeding  oases,  and of Tehenu or  Libya,  first  old  on sealings from the Early Dynastic Period. Although  his  dominion  is  in  what  the Ancient  Egyptians  addressed  the  Red  Land (Deshret) as opposed to the crop-bearing silt up of the Black Land (Kemet) marching the River Nile itself, Ash is not an foreigner or a deity of alien origins. He masters the get of the oases in favor of the pharaoh gone archaeology in the Egyptian western Desert has  read  how  the  Egyptian  monarch savored the prosperity of its senior fertile depressions.  Ash  also  had  ties with vineries in the western Egyptian Nile Delta.

His work is normally anthropomorphic as  attested,  e.g.  in  a  backup  from  a temple of King Sahura (Dynasty V). He can as well be  showed  with  the  head  of  a  hawk. As master of the desert an plain identification was made between Ash and Seth as early as Dynasty II. This connexion was main because Ash, it would seem, was the original god of Ombos in Upper Egypt  before  the reaching of Seth as its major deity  so an epithet  of  Ash  being  nebuty or he  of Nebut.

God Bes

God Bes

God Bes was a house god (a deity worshiped primarily at home, as defended to temple ceremonies) connected to childbirth who was first revered in Egypt during the New Kingdom. Egyptologists discord on where Bes might have developed, but Babylonia or Punt (a foreign land that might have been located in Sudan or Ethiopia) seem the most likely nominees. Egyptologists also discord on how Bes came to be linked with childbirth, particularly since the deity was saw as male. The two prevailing theories, however, relate to the deitys appearance. In many depictions, taking on Ptolemaic Period statues and birthing-room wall art, Bes was a hideous, bearded shadow with game legs. Some Egyptologists consider that these disfigurements made Bes a visible internal representation  of  a  pregnant  womans worst concerns for her child. Others believe that  the  god's  role  was  as  a  guardian whose malformations would frighten devils away from the child about to be born. It does seem that women in labor named on Bes for good luck and that he was saw a kindly deity. He was likewise said to dance with a tambourine to keep evil spirits out, and many young children wore pendants  with  his  likeness  to  have  this same protection.

God Dedun

God Dedun on the left side crowning Tuthmose II

God Dedun was an Egyptian god, lord and  giver  of  cense. To  the  monarch, Dedun  gets the  peoples and riches  of southwest lands. He was usually portrayed in human guise, but, like  Arsnuphis, he could as well assume the form of a lion.

God Dedun was good by King Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) of the 18th Dynasty, Tuthmosis developed a temple at Semna for the worship of Dedun, apparently  designated  as  a  testimonial  to  pacify  the  local  inhabitants  and  to  establish  a  resonance  with  the  region.  The temple  also  served  as  a  repository  to  the  troops  of  the noted  Medjay during  the  conflict  with  the  Asiatics  in Egypt Delta.

Pillars of Shu

Pillars of Shu were cosmogonic structures  in Egyptian cults, four columns that suffered the heavens, named Pet. The Pillars of Shu stood at all corner of the rectangular organization of heaven and were guarded by the Sons  of  Horus, ( Imsety,  Hapi, Qebehsennuf , and Duamutef). These spiritual beings also cautious the Canopic Jars of the went in graves.

God Shu

God Shu Hieroglyphic Name

God Shu

God Shu was an Egyptian god of the air, the sponsor of light  and  atmosphere.  At  the  command  of  Atum, Shu raised  Nut from  the  cover of the earth god Geb and varied  her  into  the  sky.  A  solar  god,  Shu  was shown as a man expecting a scepter, an ankh or a Maat feather. He bore a solar disk on his head. The  consort  of  Tefnut, Shu  was  also  part  of  lion cults.  The  four  pillars  of  heaven  were  his  symbols.  He was  worshipped  at  Heliopolis and  at  Leontopolis. Shu was addressed He Who Rises Up. He was a appendage of the Ennead in  Heliopolis  and  was  also  connected  with  the cult of Ra, restrictive that deity from the serpent Apophis. Shu  was  the  prosopopoeia  of  divine  intelligence  in Egypt.

God Apedemak

God Apedemak Hieroglyphic Name

God Apedemak

God Apedemak was a god from Nubia in the deep south of Egypt and he bore for war and victory and was too the own protector of the king. He was venerated alongside the other great gods, especially those who came from the south border themselves same Khnum and Ankhet. His few local fellows all like him had typical Egyptian features, like Dedun - god of the four serious points, wealth and cense. Apedemak come by popularity very late in history - during the Greek era (330-50 BC.) when the Egyptian cultural influence was slowly fading out in the southern districts. He was commonly saw as a man with a lion's head with the usual holds and regalia. 

God Yam

It has indicated that the Sea looking in the tale is a god imported from Syria-Palestine, the god Yam. This designation is harder to support. It may be close that the goddess Astarte and perhaps also the god Yam was used by an Egyptian author because she fit the wants of the tale. If this is true, like the divinities of the Hittite Elkunirsha myth, she rnay be displaying the very device characteristics that she displayed in Syria-Palestine,. but she may as well have been redesigned for an Egyptian audience. It is also viable that "The S ea does not even mention to Yam. but even if it does. the bossibililv of large licence again arises. Since this rnythological rag of a story controls clear references to Egyptian religious traditions (the Ennead, Ptah, and Nut), the narrative is less be-like to have had a Syro Palestinian blood than the Elkunirsha shard.

God Thoth

God Thoth Hieroglyphic Name

God Thoth

God Thoth, the god of wisdom was one of the most essential gods of Egyptian deities. Thoth likewise knew as Djehuty and Tehuti. He is the god of writing, cognition, time, fantasy, speaking, designs and moon. Moreover he involved in arbitration, magic and the judgement of the dead. Thoth was said to be the son of Ra and different said he was self created along with the goddess Maat. His visual aspect shown as a man with the head of ibis, belongings a writing pallet in his hand. He also sometimes showed as an ibis, baboon, dog with baboon head, deity of balance and makes of Shu or Ankher and more such. He is often seen enduring a lunar disk and elliptical on his head or the Atef crown. Full this forms symbolise the properties of Thoth.

The Secret Of The world with Thoth

The ancient Egyptians knew Thoth as the discoverer of writing and were considered to have been the scriber of the Hall of Judgement. The Book of the Dead was published by him. He is the artificer of the hieroglyphs, which the Egyptians called medju-netjer, Words of the Gods. He was thought as the lingua or heart of Ra. Thoth also known as the guardian of writers, mathematicians, scribes, teacher and whoever propagating and handling knowledge.

He taken many roles in the world of deities and like many other Egyptian gods Thoth likewise has many titles much as Lord of Maat, Lord of Divine Words, Judge of the Two Combatant Gods, Twice Great, Thrice Great, 3 Times Great, Great and more. Thoth concerned all major scenes taking the gods, most especially at Hall of Judgement. He is also the essential counselor for other gods. Thoth was wanted widely throughout all of Egypt and his cult center was established at Khemenu in Hermopolis. His festival Lord of Heavens was celebrated on the New Year.

God Khepri

God Khepri Hieroglyphic Name

God Khepri

God Khepri was a spiritual being of Egypt. A creator God, Khepri was affiliated with  the everyday cycle of the sun and stood for the sun at dawn. Having a cult middle at Heliopolis, Khepri was a expression of the  deity  Ra. He  is drawn as a man with a Scarab driving  the sun cross ways  the  sky.  In Petosiris's tomb at Tuna El-Gebel, seeing to the Ptolemaic Period (304-30  B.C.E.),  Khepri is shown wearing an Atef crown. He was also observed in the pyramids texts. Self-created, Khepri was consociated with Atum.

God Babi

God Babi Hieroglyphic Name

God Babi

God Babi, in Egyptian mythology, was the deification of the baboon, one of the animals present in Egypt. His name is normally transformed as Bull of the baboons, and roughly means Alpha male of all baboons, i.e. chief of the baboons.

Baboons  showing  many  human  characteristics,  it  was  considered  in  early  times,  at  least  since  the Predynastic Period, that they were deceased antecedents. In particular, the alpha males were named as deceased rulers, concerned to as the great white one (Hez-ur in Egyptian), since Hamadryas baboon (the mintages regular in Egypt) alpha males have a famous light grey streak. For Instance, Narmer is drawn in some images as having varied into a baboon. Since baboons were seen to be the dead, Babi was considered as an Hades deity. Baboons are highly competitive,  and  omnivorous,  and  so  Babi  was  viewed  as  being  very  violent,  and  living  on  entrails.

Therefore, he was viewed as devouring the souls of the wicked after they had been weighed against Ma'at (the  construct  of  truth/order), and  was  therefore  said  to  stand  by  a  lake  of  fire,  doing  destruction.  Since  this trying of righteousness was an outstanding part of the Hell, Babi was said to be the first-born son of Osiris, the god of the dead in the same realms in which people believed in Babi. Baboons also have observably high sex drives, in addition to their full level of venereal marking, and so Babi was seen the deity of virility of the dead. He was usually portrayed with an hard-on, and due to the connexion with the judgments of souls, was sometimes represented as using it as the mast of the ferry which carried the righteous to Aaru,  a  series  of  islands. Babi  was  also  prayed  to,  in  order  to  ensure  that  an  own  would  not  suffer  from impotency after death.