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.