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Amun

Amun was one of the eight Ancient Egyptian Gods who formed the Ogdoad of Hermopolis. Amuns name is first recorded as Imn. Vowels were not written in Hieroglyphics, but Egyptianoligists  think the name survives into the Coptic language as amoun .He was the God of air and his consort was Ament [Amounet]. In Egyptian mythology, Amun was a very powerful God.

Bast

Bast was the ancient Egyptian goddess of protection and cats. She was the daughter of Ra, the sun God. She was seen as a domestic cat and not anymore as a lioness.

Anubis

Anubis is the protector of the gates to the underworld. Osiris replaced him as the god of dead. Anubis is the god of death and the afterlife was closely associated with mummification.

Geb

Geb was the god of Earth. The animals of Geb are snake and goose. Egyptians believed that earthquake are Gebs laughter. Geb was the husband and brother of the sky goddess nut and the father of Osiris. Geb hatched his egg, which would become the sun. Geb married nut and had five children their names were Osiris, Isis, Nephthys , Horus and Seth.

Anuket

Anuket was the first Ancient Egyptian goddess of the Nile River in areas like the Elephantine Island. Since the god Khnum and goddess Satis were thought to be the gods of the source of the Nile, Anuket was believed to be their daughter. In Art, she was usually shown as a Gazelle, or with a Gazelles head, and sometimes had a Headdress of feathers. The taboo that was held in several parts of Egypt of not eating fish, which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time. When the Nile started its annual flood, the festival of Anuket began. People threw coins, gold, jewelry and precious gifts into the river, thanking Anuket for the life-giving water.

Mut

Mut was an ancient  Egyptian goddess. Her name can also be spelled Maut or Mout. Mut’s dress is bright red or blue and a bit of silver. She is sometimes shown as a cow, a cat, or a lioness as well as a vulture.

Sobek

Sobek was the ancient Egyptian god of the Nile. In art he was shown with the head of a crocodile. Sobek was worshipped wherever the Nile was presenting difficulties. Sobek’s role was to protect the pharaoh from evil but it differs with each person.His tongue was cut off as a punishment which is why crocodiles don’t have tongues in ancient Egyptian myths.

Nephthys

She was a goddess with wide power and capacity, and she was often referred to as the excellent goddess. She had two siblings Osiris and Isis, Isis married Seth he is her bother in law. She had a central role in popular myths of Osiris, it is her magical powers that helps resurrect his body. She was not only a goddess of death, decay and darkness but also a magician with great healing powers.

Taweret

She is the demon wife of Apep. Taweret was a goddess who protected women. She had the head of a hippopotamus with the arms and legs of a lion and the back and tail of a crocodile.

Isis

Isis was a major goddess in Ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the old Kingdom [ C. 2686 2181 BCE] as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth. In the first millennium BCE, Osiris and Isis became the most wildly worshipped Egyptian deities.

Thorth

Thorth was the deity of scribes. He is thought to be one of the most important said to be born from the skull of Seth also said to be born from the heart  of the heart of Ra. Thoth was considered the heart and tongue of Ra .He was also  the one how translated  Ra will be into speech. Thorth The main shrine of Thoth was at khemennu it was where he was the head of the local company of deities. He also had shrines.

Atum the god of gods

Atum’s name is thought to be derived from the verb tm which mean’s to complete or finished. This he has been interpreted as being complete one and also the finisher of the word which he returns  to watery chaos at the end of creative cycle, as seen as the underlying substance of the world. The book as the dead which was still current in the Craeco –roman pinocl, the sun god Atum is said to have appearance of a snake.

OSIRIS

In Egyptian MYTHOLY OSIRIS is the god of life, death and the flood of the Nile and the after life. He was the brother and husband of ISIS. They had a baby named Horus. Osiris was murdered by his brother Sept.