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

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

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
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
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.

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