List of Egyptian gods

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This is a list of Egyptian gods and supernatural beings. For more information see Ancient Egyptian religion.

  • Amun - creator deity
  • Anubis - god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead
  • Apep - Serpent of the Underworld, enemy of Ra
  • The Aten - the embodiment of the Sun's rays in a brief, monotheistic interlude
  • Atum - a creator deity, and the setting sun
  • Bast, protector of the pharaoh, cat-bodied or cat-headed. Also known as Bastet
  • Bes - dwarfed semigod associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment
  • The four sons of Horus
  • Geb - god of the Earth and first ruler of Egypt
  • Hapy - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility
  • Hathor - Goddess of Love and Music
  • Heget Goddess of Childbirth
  • Horus the falcon-headed god, God of Pharaohs and Upper Egypt
  • Imhotep God of wisdom, medicine and magic
  • Isis - Goddess of magic, also the wife of osiris and goddess of the underworld
  • Khepry - the scarab beetle, the embodiment of the dawn
  • Khnum - a creator deity, god of the innundation
  • Maahes - god of war
  • Ma'at - personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order
  • Menhit - Goddess of war
  • Meretseger, goddess of the valley of the kings
  • Mont - god of war
  • Naunet - the primal waters
  • Neith - goddess of war, then great mother goddess
  • Nephthys - goddess of death.
  • Nut - goddess of heaven and the sky
  • Osiris - god of the underworld, fertility and agriculture
  • Ptah - a creator deity, also god of crafts, possibly Men-Nefer (Memphis)
  • Ra - the sun, possible father of Anubis, also a creator deity
  • Ra-Horakhty, god of both sky and Sun. A combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be God of the Rising Sun
  • Sekhmet - goddess of destruction and war, particularly against demons of sickness
  • Seker- god of death
  • Reshep, war god that was originally from Syria
  • Sobek - crocodile god of the Nile
  • Set - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert, also Lower Egypt
  • Seshat, scribe goddess
  • Shu - embodiment of wind or air
  • Taweret - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth
  • Tefnut - embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather
  • Thoth - god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, and magic
  • Wadjet, snake goddess of lower Egypt
  • Wadj-wer, fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta
  • Wepwawet - jackal god of upper Egypt
  • Wosret - a localised guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus
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