Famous Pharaohs

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

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."

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 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 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 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 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 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).