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.

God Apophis

God Apophis Hieroglyphic Name

God Apophis (the snake)

God Apophis was a giant  serpent  with secret  powers  who  was  the  opposition  of  the  God Ra. Apophis was in the waters of Nun, the cosmogonical domain of chaos, or in the ethereal waters of the Nile, the divine  entity  envisioned  in  Egyptian  religious  texts.  He tried each day to stop R from his firm passage through the sky. In some traditions, Apophis was a last  form  of  Ra  that  had  been  discarded,  a  myth  that reported for the strength of the creature. Apophis was taken for to be a sound threat to R by the Egyptians. On  sunless  days,  especially  on  stormy  days,  the  people took  the  lack  of  sunlight  as  a  sign  that  Apophis  had immersed R and his solar boat. Apophis never got a lasting  victory,  however,  because  of  the  prayers  of  the priests and the close. The ritual document, the Book of  Overriding Apophis,  and  the  Book  of  Knowing How  Ra  Came  into  Being  and  How  to  Upset Apophis were learned in Karnak, and in the Papyrus Bremner-Rhind,  and  contained  a  list  of  the  serpents secret names that would wound him if recited aloud and a selection of hymns to be sung to keep Ra victories. A serials  of  terrible  assaults  were  invested  upon Apophis apiece time the serpent was killed, but he rose in strength  that  observing  morning,  an  image  of  evil always made to attack the righteous. Apophis was the prosopopoeia of dark and evil.

God Serapis

God Serapis Hieroglyphic Name

God Serapis

God Serapis was an human like God created by the Greek King  Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I chose Serapis to be the official god of Egypt and Greece alike. He hoped a bad spiritual base would mix the 2 peoples and ease tension in the country. Serapis' properties were both Egyptian and Hellenistic. Serapis become very popular and his cult quickly spread from its heart in Alexandria. A Roman historian took a firm stand that the god was to begin with from Asia Minor. However, Egypt likely provided the serious attributes of Serapis. Serapis' Egyptian nature can be saw in his roots, which were drawn from the crazes of Osiris and the Apis bull. These rages had been combined prior to the dominate of Ptolemy I. At that time, a spiritual bull of Memphis addressed Osorapis was favorite after its expiry. Osorapis was an agricultural god whose cult emphasized the Egyptian rules of life afterwards death. The early Greek pharaohs seemed to have been run to Osorapis as a god who appeared to fuse the countless of Egyptian gods and disciplined aspects that were easily fusible with the gods of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic factors of Serapis prevail Serapis' (personality) and iconogrpahy. Many greek deities brought to his nature, taking on: Zeus, Helios, Dionysos, Hades and Aesculapius. From "Zeus" and "Helios" he taken the looks of reign and sun-deity. Dionysos brought to him the attribute of presiding over nature. Hades connected him to the hereafter and Aesculapius made him the art of healing. The Greek pictures of Serapis show him with long hair and a long beard. He is seated on a throne with the 3 headed dog of Hades, Cerberus, at his feet. The Egyptian images of the god present him as a mummified human with the bead of a bull. He is royal with the elliptical moon and two clothes.

God Neper

God Neper Hieroglyphic Name

God Neper

 Neper was a God of grain, in Egyptian Gods, while Nepit was a goddess of cereal, and the female counterpart of Neper.

Seen  in  human  kind,  Nepri  is  frequently  described  as  a  child  nursed  by  Renenutet. Nepri's  body  was  figured  to play grains of corn. The hieroglyphics that write his name similarly take the symbols of grain. As lord of the mouth, Neper's mother was named as Renenutet, who gone the Ren, a person's true name, and who was also named as source of nutrition. In particular, Neper was especially associated with the most used types of grain, namely barley and emmer wheat. His name simply means lord of the mouth, a reference to the function of texture as nutrition. Once the myth of Osiris and Isis had started to be told, since Osiris was now a life-death-rebirth deity, in bad with many cultures, his story was related with the annual harvest, and the annual disappearing of any visible life in the crop. Thus, at this point, Neper became seen merely an aspect of Osiris, a much more important god, gaining the title (one who) lives afterwards last.

God Amenhotep Son of Hapu

God Amenhotep

Amenhotep son of Hapu was natural in the Nile delta past in the prevail of King Thutmose III. Hapu ,his father,  was a lower. Amenhoteps first famous official situation was royal scribe. He was thus an shape of the Egyptian belief that education was the key to running up in society. Eventually, he grown Chief of All the Kings Works in the reign of King Amenhotep III (1390-1352 B.C.E. ). In this situation he overseen enormous building projects. These projects took add-on at the Karnak temple, the first degree of the Luxor temple, and the kings mortuary temple in western Thebes, the largest ever established. Afterwards his death, Amenhotep son of Hapu was deified and considered a preventive god.

God Heh

God Heh Hieroglyphic Name

God Heh

God Heh was the god of infinity and formlessness. He was showed as a bowing man enduring two palm pokes fun in his hands, for each one of which done with a tadplole and a shen ring. This shen ring was a established symbol of infinity. The palm ribs were symbols of the transition of time, in the temples they were serrated to record cycles of time. The tadpole was a hieroglyph that was the number 100,000. The realize of Heh himself was with his arms grown was the hieroglyph for the come one million.

God Heh was a member of the Ogdoad of Hermopolis. He and his consort Hauhet together were the views of formlessness and endlessness that went in the population anticipatory to the Creation. In Hermopolis, he was described as a snake.

God Khonsu

God Khonsu Hieroglyphic Name

God Khonsu

God Khonsu is an Ancient Egyptian god whose great role was linked with the moon. His name agency "traveller" and this may pertain to the nightly travel of the moon crosswise the sky. Along with Thoth he big the passage of time. Khonsu was stabilizing in the existence of new life in good living creatures. At Thebes he worked part of a family triple with Mut as his mother and Amun as his father. He was precious as son of Sobek and Hathor at Kom Ombo.

The name (Khonsu) ponders the fact that the Moon (mentioned to as Iah in Egyptian) travels crosswise the night sky, for it implies traveller, and also had the deeds "Pathfinder and Defender", as he was thinking to watch long-term travelers. As the deity of light in the night, Khonsu was provoked to protect against wild animals, increase male manliness, and to aid with healing. It was very that when Khonsu induced the crescent moon to shine, women conceived, cattle grown fertile, and all nostrils and every throat was full with fresh air. Khonsu can also be read to good king's placenta, and consequently in early times, he was thought to slay the enemies of the pharaoh, and extract their viscera for the pharaoh's use, metaphorically creating something resembling a placenta for the pharaoh. This bloody aspect tips him to be concerned to, in untold as the Pyramid texts, as  the  (one  who)  lives  on  hearts.  He  too  became  related  with  more  literal  placentas,  proper  seen  as  a exaltation of the royal placenta, and thus a deity taken with accouchement.

Temple of God Khonsu at Karnak

The Great Temple of God Khonsu was built in the precinct of the temple of Karnak. It was started by King Ramses III, in the New Kingdom but extended by a number of later swayer. There were 3 shrines devoted to specific facets of the god in Karnak and Thebes.

God Anti

God Anti Hieroglyphic Name

God Anti was the war God of ancient Egyptian. Anti worshiped in Upper Egypt, having a cult center at Deir El-Gebrawi, near old Assyut. The deity was a supporter of Merenre I of the 6th dynasty. Respecting Anti was plausibly part of Merenre's drives to mold helps in the southwest region, and  the falcon was it's symbol.

Magic in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptians society were closed by  magic. From the mystical rituals conducted by the priest to the other incantations of the doctors. Their absorption with death, the magical, magic charms and magic spells permeated to all levels of society. Magicians toned spells to cure ailments and ward off risk, unwellness and evil lives. 

The priests of Ancient Egypt were the important magicians and practicians of magic in Egypt. The Ancient Egyptians believed that magic was closely affiliated with writing. Most magician priests were considered to have gained magical knowledge by studying ancient sacred scriptures The priest magicians were surrounded in mystery. Priests were seen to be in possession of a secret cognition which had been given to them by the immortals. The death rituals and the spells loved by the magic priests made them important.

The Book of the Dead disciplined nearly two hundred Magic Spells designed to help with overwhelming the dangers of the Hades such as defeating severe beasts, avoiding several traps and demons. These spells   included transformation the ability to change into several beings such as a mythical phoenix or a honed snake. The correct magic spells would take to be recited to pass different tests to ensure secure passage through the terrifying trials of the Scheol which left to the Hall of Two Truths where their activities in their mortal lives would be examined - the Egyptian Magic Spells were important for the Day of Judgement. The priest sorcerers had the spells which could help an Ancient Egyptian to become immortal. Is it any wonder that people considered they could work magic miracles wish bringing figures of animal to life and working people into animate beings.

The statues of the gods were thought to be a living embodiment of the divinity. The familiar 'sitting position' of many of the great statues was believed to grant the living soul ,the Ba, to stand erect and "go out into the day." The statues were usually housed in the temples but on great occasions and festivals the statues were exhibited in front of the people. The people then wanted magical prophecies viewing their lives - The wonders were put in much a way that they only essential a 'yes' or 'no' serve. If the divine spirit of the statue moved the bearers forward the result was OK.

Ancient Egyptian Amulets

The amulet is a small object that a soul wearies, carries, or extends to a deity because he or she believes that it will magically add a particular power or form of tribute. The sentence that a symbol, form, or construct provides protection, promotes well-being, or brings good fortune is common to all societies: in our own, we unremarkably wear religious symbols, carry a wanted penny, or a lapins foot. In ancient Egypt, amulets might be run, used in necklaces, bracelets, or rings, and particularly set among a mummys binds to check the gone a safe, healthy, and prosperous hereafter.

Egyptian amulets gone in a number of ways. Symbols and deities generally confabbed the powers they present. Small models that represent identified objects, such as headrests or arms and legs, served to make sure those items were ready to the private or that a specific motive could be called. Magic contained in an amulet could be seen not only from its shape. Material, color, scarcity, the grouping of various forms, and words said or ingredients scratched over the amulet could total be the source for magic allowing the possessors wish.

Microscopic representations of animals look to have went as amulets already in the Predynastic Period (4500-3100 B.C.). In the Old Kingdom (2649-2150 B.C.), about amulets took an animal figure or were symbols (often settled on hieroglyphs), although generalized human forms came. Amulets depicting sensible deities begin to come along in the Middle Kingdom (2030-1640 B.C.), and the New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.) showed a further increase in the lead of amulet forms. With the Third Intermediate Period (1070-712 B.C.), there was an detonation in the measure of amulets, and numerous new types, particularly deities, come along.

Using amulets was standard in Egypt from the earlier times to the Roman Period, and when the Egyptians covered Christianity, they, in common with the Gnostics and semi-Christian sects, established into their new faith many of the considers and beliefs which their so-called heathen ancestors had took, and with them the apply of the names of Ancient Egypt gods, and goddesses, and ogres, and formul?, which they engaged in much the said way as they were engaged in the days of old.

Here are some of that Amulets:

The Amulet of the Scarab

The Amulet of the Ankh

The Amulet of the Hearts

The Amulet of the Buckle

The Amulet of the Tet

The Amulet of the Pillow

The Amulet of the Vulture

The Amulet of the Golden Collar

The Amulet of the Papyrus Scepter

The Amulet of the Eye of Horus

The Amulet of the fingers

The Amulet of the Frog

The Amulet of the Ladder

The Amulet of the Menat

The Amulet of the Sam

The Amulet of the Serpent's Head

The Amulet of the Shen

The Amulet of the Soul

The Amulet of Nefer

The Amulet of the Steps

The Amulet of the Steps

The Amulet of the Steps

The Amulet of the Steps appears to have two substances: to lift up to heaven, and the throne of Osiris. According to one legend, when the god Shu cared to lift up the goddess Nut from the adopt of the god Seb, so that her body, endured by her stretched-out arms and legs, might form the sky, he got that he was not tall plenty to do so; in this difficultness he made use of a flight of steps, and having rose to the top of these he found himself able to perform his work. In the fourth division of the Elysian Fields three such fledges of steps are showed. In the "XXIInd Chapter" of the (Book of the Dead) the deceased prays that he "may have a portion with him who is on the lead of the steps," i.e., 

Osiris, and in funeral vignettes this god is seen sitting upon the top of a trajectory of steps and holding his usual symbols of sovereignty and dominion. The amulet of the Steps is unremarkably made of green or blue glazed porcelain.

The Amulet of Nefer

The Amulet of Nefer

The Amulet of Nefer means "happiness, good fortune", etc., and stages a musical instrument; it was taken of carnelian, red stone, red porcelain, and the care, and was a very favourite form for the pendants of necklaces and guides of beads.

The Amulet of the Soul

The Amulet of the Soul

The Amulet of the Soul was taken of gold inlaid with sacred stones in the form of a human-headed hawk, and, when the phrases of the "LXXXIXth Chapter" of the (Book of the Dead) had been recited over it, it was directed by the rubric to the Chapter to be set upon the breast of the deceased. The object of the amulet is manifest from the text in which the broken is made to read, "Hail, thou god Anniu. Hail, thou god Pehrer, who dwellest in thy vestibule! Grant thou that my soul whitethorn come unto me from wheresoever it may be. If it would sticky, then let my soul be took unto me from wherever it may be.. Let me have self-will of my soul and of my heart, and let me be right of voice with them wherever they may be .. Hail, ye gods, who tow on the boat of the lord of millions of years, who bring it introductory the Hades, and who make it to travel over Nut, who make people to enter into their sacred bodies, ... grant that the soul of the Osiris "may come forth before the gods, and that it may be straight of voice with you in the eastside of the sky, and accompany unto the set where it was yesterday, and enjoy dual peace in Amentet. May it look upon its natural body, may it rest upon its religious body, and may its body neither perish nor suffer subversion for ever so!" Thus the amulet of the soul was meant to enable the someone both to unite with the mummified body, and to be with its look (khu) and sacred body at volition.

The Amulet of the Shen

The Amulet of the Shen

The Amulet of the Shen is involved to represent the sun's orbit, and it became the symbolization of an vague period of time, i.e., eternity; it was placed upon the body of the dead with the catch of big to it life which should run as long as the sun overturned in its orbit in the heavens. In the picture of the mummy chamber the goddesses Isis and Nephthys are found kneeling and resting their hands on shen. Pictures of the shen were finished upon stel?, coffins, etc.; as an amulet it is ordinarily made of lapis-lazuli or carnelian. The amulet of the cartouche has been supposed to be nothing more than shen extended, but it likely refers to the ordinary thinking of i.e., "name".

The Amulet of the Serpent's Head

The Amulet of the Serpent's Head

The amulet of the serpent's head was settled on the dead body to keep it from being burnt by snakes in the Scheol or tomb. It is made of red gemstone, red jasper, red paste, and carnelian. As the goddess Isis is often typified by a serpent, and red is a coloring peculiar to her, it looks as if the idea base the use of this amulet was to beat the snakes in the tomb by implies of the power of the great snake-goddess Isis. This power had been transported to it by means of the words of the "XXXIVth Chapter" of the (Book of the Dead), which are often inscribed upon it. The text reads:

"O Serpent! I am the flame which shineth upon the Undoer of hundreds of thousands of years, and the regular of the god Tenpu".

or as others say, "the regular of young plants and flowers. Depart ye from me, for I am the sacred Lynx." Some have thought that the snake's head represents the ophidian which exceeds the ram's head on the urhekau tool used in performing the ceremony of (Opening the mouth).