GODS AND GODDESSES

There were over 2,000 names of gods in Ancient Egypt. Some images of Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses show them with a human body and the
head of a bird or an animal. Animals were chosen to represent the powers of the god.
Amun - King of the Sobek was the god with Tawaret was a goddess
Gods. When Amun was the head of a crocodile. who protected women
combined with the sun He was a water god. during pregnancy and
god Ra he was even childbirth.
more powerful. He was
then called Amun-Ra. He
was also known as
father of all gods.

Nut was the sky- Osiris was the god of Anubis was a jackal-
goddess, whose body the dead, and ruler of head god. He was the
created a vault or the underworld. He was god of embalming
canopy over the earth. the master of “life and (mummification) and
Nut was the sister/wife spirit”. He was also the dead. He helped to
of Geb, the god of the known as “god of embalm Osiris after he
earth. She was also the farming”. Osiris was was killed by Seth. Thus,
mother of Isis (goddess murdered by Seth, the he was the god who
of healing), Osiris, God of Chaos (problem watched over the
Nepthys (the river and trouble). process of mummifying
goddess) and Seth. people when they died.

Bastet/Bast was a cat Montu was the god of war. Hathor was the goddess of Thoth was the god of Horus was a god of the sky Seth was the god of chaos.
goddess. She was a beauty, love, music and wisdom, writing and and protection. He has a Apophis was the snake god
protective goddess. dance. knowledge. head of a Falcon. of chaos.