Egyptian Gods

This in only a very small list of the deities in Egyptian Mythology. It was very common in Egypt (and in many other cultures) to combine gods to create new ones, reconcile deities from different areas, or to show different aspects of a major god. One example is when you combine Hathor with Isis you get Sekhmet, the goddess of war and destruction. As such, new gods were being created by simply combining aspects of the others.

The Divine Family Tree

Deity Descriptions

Name:	Domain:	Symbol:	Center of Cult:	Consort:	Gender:
Aker	Guardian of Sunrises and Sunsets	Two lions	----	----	Male
Amaunet	Hidden Power (Primordial)	Snake	Hermopolis Magna	----	Female
Ammut (Amam, Am-mit)	"Devourer of the Dead"	Part Crocodile, Hippopotamus, and Lion	Thebes	NONE	Female
Amun	Air, Wind, Fertility; King of the Gods	Ram, Goose, Hawk, Man	Thebes, Hermopolis Magna	Mut	Male
Anat *	War	Woman w/ spear & axe & shield	----	Baal	Female
Anubis (Anpu)	Funerals, The Afterlife, Magic, Cemetaries	Jackal, Dog	Cynopolis, Lycopolis, Thinis	NONE	Male
Anukis (Anuket)	Cataracts, Hunting	Woman w/ feathered headdress & papyrus scepter	Elephantine	Khnum	Female
Apis	Fertility	Bull	Memphis	NONE	Male
Apophis (Apep)	The Underworld, Darkness, Chaos	Serpent	-----	NONE	Male
Arensnuphis *	----	Man with feathered crown	Philae	----	Male
Astarte *	War	Naked woman w/ bull's horns riding a horse	----	----	Female
Aten	Everything	Solar Disc	Tell el-Amarna	NONE	Male
Atum	creator god	Snake, Man w/ double crown	Heliopolis	----	Male
Baal *	Skies, Storms	Man w/ cedar tree, pointed beard, & horned helmet	----	Anat	Male
Baba	Agression & Virility	Baboon	----	----	Male
Banebdjedet	Virility, Skies	Ram	Mendes	----	Male
Bastet (Bast)	Sexuality, Childbirth, Joy	Cat, Lion	Bubastis	NONE	Female
Bat	Fertility	Necklace w/ Female head w/ cow's ears & horns	Upper Egypt	----	Female
Benu	Rebirth	Heron	Heliopolis	----	Male
Bes	Good Fortune, Protection, Childbirth	Dwarf, Lion	-----	NONE	Male
Buchis	----	Bull	Armant	----	Male
Duamutef	Guarded the Stomach & Upper Intestines of the deceased	Jackal	----	----	Male
Geb (Keb)	"The Earth", "The Great Cackler", Fertility	Human, Goose	The Delta, Heliopolis	Nut	Male
Hapy	Nile Floods	Human, Water, Lotus	Aswan, Gebel el-Silsila	----	Male
Hapy	Guarded the Lungs of the deceased	Baboon	----	----	Male
Hathor	"The Eye of Ra", Fertility, Inebriation, Joy, Love, Music, Dance	Cow, Woman w/ cow ears/horns	Dendera, Deir el-Bahri	Horus, Ra	Female
Hatmehyt	----	Fish	Mendes	----	Female
Hauhet	Floods (Primordial)	Snake	Hermopolis Magna	Huh	Female
Heket	Childbirth	Frog	Qus	----	Female
Herishef	Creator (Primordial)	Longhorned Ram w/ sun-disc	Herakleopolis	----	Male
Horus	Divinity of the Pharoahs, The Blind, Skies	Falcon	The Delta, Edfu, Hierakonopolis, Behdet	Hathor	Male
Hu	Authority, Divine Words	Man	----	----	Male
Huh (Heh)	Infinity (Primordial)	Frog, Man holding a palm rib	----	Hauhet	Male
Ihy	Children	Sistrum, Child	Dendera	----	Male
Imhotep	Medicine, Wisdom	Man w/ papyrus & skull cap	Memphis, Thebes	----	Male
Ipy (Ipet)	Protection	Hippopotamus	Thebes	----	Female
Ishtar *	"Lady of Battle", Sexuality, Fertility, Healing	Woman	----	----	Female
Isis	Magic	Woman	Egypt	Osiris	Female
Imsety	Guarded the Liver of the deceased	Man	----	----	Male
Kauket	Darkness (Primordial)	Snake	Hermopolis Magna	----	Female
Khepri (Khepra, Khepera, Kheper)	Sunrise	Scarab	Heliopolis	NONE	Male
Khnum (Khnemu)	Water, Creation, Pottery, Cataracts, Agricultural Fertility	Ram	Philae, Elephantine, Esna	NONE	Male
Khons (Khonsu)	Moon, "Wanderer"	Falcon, Child, Moon	Thebes	NONE	Male
Kuk	Darkness (Primordial)	Frog	Hermopolis Magna	----	Male
Ma'at (Mayet)	"That Which is Straight", Balance, Law, Truth, Order	White Ostrich Feather	Egypt	NONE	Female
Mafdet	Protection from Snakes & Scorpions	Woman, Panther	----	----	Female
Mandulis	Sun	Man w/ sun-disc crown w/ cobras & feathers	Philae, Kalabsha	----	Male
Mehen	Protector of Ra	Serpent	----	----	Male
Mehet-Weret	"Great Flood", Skies (Primordial)	Cow	----	----	Female
Meretseger (Mertseger)	"Peak of the West", "She who loves silence"	Cobra	Western Thebes	----	Female
Meshkenet	Childbirth, Destiny	Brick w/ woman's head	----	NONE	Female
Mihos	----	Lion	Leontopolis, Bubastis	----	Male
Min	"Chief of Heaven", Fertility, Sexuality, Rain, Mining	Ithyphallic Human, Lettuce, White Bull	Panopolis, Koptos, Akhmim	----	Male
Mnevis	Oracles	Bull	Heliopolis	---	Male
Montu	War	Falcon w/ headdress / sun-disc	Thebes	----	Male
Mut	Heaven, Motherhood	Vulture, Cow, Cat	Thebes	Amun	Female
Naunet	Water (Primordial)	Snake	Hermopolis Magna	----	Female
Nefertum	-----	Lotus Blossom, Lion	Memphis, Buto	-----	Male
Neith	War, Hunting, Guardian of Men and Gods, Weaving	Human, Bow & Crossed Arrows, Shield & Crossed Arrows, Cow	Sais	-----	Female
Nekhbet	Protectress of Upper Egypt	Vulture	El-Kab, Upper Egypt	----	Female
Neper	Grain	Man	----	----	Male
Nephthys (Nebhet)	"Lady of the House", Sterility, Protection, Funerals	Woman	Kom Mer	Seth (Set), Osiris	Female
Nun	(Primordial)	Man, Baboon, Frog	Heliopolis, Hermopolis Magna	---	Male
Nut	"The Sky"	Woman, Cow	Heliopolis	Geb	Female
Onuris	Warriors, Hunters	Bearded Man	This	----	Male
Osiris	Vegitation, Lord of the dead, Fertility, the Afterlife, Rebirth, Agriculture	Human, Mummy	Busiris, Abydos	Isis	Male
Pahket	----	Lioness	Beni Hasan	----	Female
Ptah	The Rising Sun, Creation, Craftsmen	Human, Shaven Mummy	Memphis	Sekhmet	Male
Qadesh *	Sexuality, Ecstacy, Sensual Pleasures	Naked Woman on a Lion	----	----	Female
Qebehsenuef	Guarded the lower intestines of the deceased	Falcon	----	Male	Male
Ra (Re, Rhra)	The Sun	Hawk, Solar Disk, Uraeus	Heliopolis	(Many)	Male
Renenet	The Harvest, Toddlers, Nursing Women	Cobra	Faiyum	NONE	Female
Reshef (Reshep) *	War	Man, Gazelle	----	Male	Male
Sah	"Orion"	Man	----	----	Male
Satis (Satet)	Fertility, Protectress of the Southern Border	Woman w/ Antelope Horns	Elephantine	Khnum	Female
Sekhmet (Nesert, Sakhmet, Sekhet)	Power, War, The Sun, Healing	Lion	Memphis	Ptah	Female
Serket (Selket)	Pharoah's Throne, Anti-Evil, Funerals	Scorpion	-----	NONE	Female
Seshat (Sesha)	Reading, Writing, Math, Architecture, Libraries	Panther Skin, Human, Palm Branch, Seven-Pointed Star	----	Thoth	Female
Seth (Set, Suetekh)	Evil, Darkness, Wind, Storms, Chaos, Infertility, The Desert	Hippopotamus, Crocodile, Black Pig, Dog, Jackal, Conglomerate of Animals	Memphis, Ombos Naqada	Nephthys	Male
Shay	Destiny	Man	----	----	Male
Shezmu	Wine, Oil, Underworld Demon	Man	Faiyum	----	Male
Shu	Air, "Eye of Ra"	Man, Lion, Feather	Heliopolis, Leontopolis	Tefnut	Male
Sia	Intellect, Divine Knowledge	Man	----	----	Male
Sobek (Suchos, Sobki, Soknopais)	Pharoah's Power	Crocodile	Crocodilopois, Kom Ombo, Thebes, Lake Moeris, Faiyum	NONE	Male
Sokar	Herbs, Funerals	Hawk, Mummy w/ Horns	Memphis	NONE	Male
Sopdet (Sothis)	"Sirius"	Woman w/ Star on her head	----	----	Female
Tatenen	Receding Floods	Man w/ Ram's Horns & Double-plumed crown	Memphis	----	Male
Taweret (Taurt, Thoeris, Reret)	Childbirth, Pregnancy, The Household	Part Hippopotomus, Lion, Crocodile, and Woman	Thebes, Deir el-Bahri	NONE	Female
Tayet	Weaving	Woman	----	----	Female
Tefnut	Moisture, "Eye of Ra"	Lion, Ram, Cobra, Spitting Lips	Heliopolis, Leontopolis	Shu	Female
Thoth (Tehuti, Djehuty)	Writing, Wisdom, The Moon, Scribes, Astronomy, Medicine, Knowledge	Ibis, Baboon	Hermopolis, Eshmunen	Maat, Seshat	Male
Wadjet (Edjo)	Protectress of Lower Egypt	Cobra, Lion	Buto	----	Female
Wepwawet	Guide of the Dead, "Opener of the Ways"	Jackal	Assiut	NONE	Male

* = deity introduced to Egypt (non-native)

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