Egyptian Gods & Goddess

Ra / Re / Amen-Ra
King of the Gods
Sun god
Falcon head with a sun on top.
Sometimes seen as the creator of men
(Egyptians called themselves "the cattle of Ra)
Since heaven and the underworld have water,
Ra uses a boat (Madjet (strong) while rising
and Semektet ("becoming weak") when setting.
He often has help from other gods to
successfully navigate his boat.
He constantly had to fight monsters
(Sebau, Nak, and Apep)
The phoenix is one of his symbols

Osiris
God of the earth and vegetation
Symbolized the yearly drought and

flooding of the Nile.

Gave Egypt civilization.
Married his sister, Isis
Osiris rules Egypt and he leaves Isis in
charge when he is gone
Set and 72 conspirators kill him by
chopping him up into pieces
Isis found almost all the pieces and put
him back together (making the missing
part out of clay)
King of the afterlife
Usually shown as a bearded,
mummified human with green skin and
wearing the atef crown. His hands
come out from the mummy wrappings
and hold the flail and crook.

Horus
Falcon headed
The Pharaoh was supposed to be his

earthly embodiment.
Son of Osiris (after his resurrection)
Set is always trying to hurt him
Stunted from his waist down
In art, he is often shown standing on
crocodiles
His sons are born from Isis. Each take
care of the organs during the
mummification process
Duamutef (stomach)
Imsety (liver)
Hapi (lungs)
Qebehsenuef (intestines)

Nephthys
Wife of Seth
Seduced her brother Osiris

(possibly getting him drunk

or by looking like Isis) to get
pregnant with Anubis
BFFF Isis

Isis
Isis was the sister/wife of Osiris
Shown as a a woman wearing a

vulture head-dress and the solar

disk between a pair of horns
Isis suckles the pharohs
May be one of the judges of the
dead
Has great magical powers
Created the cobra and uses the
cobra bite to make Ra reveal to
her his secret name
The purest example of the loving
wife and mother

Set
God of evil, the desert, storms,

and chaos
A devil figure
Antelopes are sacred to him
Hates Osiris (jealous)
Kills Osiris and becomes king
before he is killed by Horus
Part pig and part donkey

Hathor
Usually depicted as a cow or as a

beautiful woman wearing a

horned headdress
She is both wife/ daughter of Ra
Also married Horus
Suckled Horus when he was
young and took care of him after
Set blinded him
Her milk is food of the gods
She offers food and drink to the
dead
Women aspire to be her

Anubis
Son of Nephthys and either

Set or Ra adopted servant

of Isis
Head of a jackal
Guides the dead to the
underworld and weighs their
heart (bad deeds make your
heart weigh more)
Works with Osiris in the
underworld
Mummification god

Ammut
Eater of the Dead
She stands by the scales of the hearts

and eats the hearts of the wicked (a final

death)
Head of a crocodile, body of a leopard,
hind legs of a hippo (apparently wicked
hearts are fattening who knew?)

Aten
The actual disk of the

sun
His hands are the suns
rays
May be the creator of
men

Nut
The Sky
She and her brother, Geb (the earth), could

not stop holding hands so now their father

(Shu air) stands between them holding them
apart.

Thoth
Moon god
Head of an ibis
Scribe (records the weight of the hearts

in the underworld)
Invented writing
From the Book of the Dead:
Hear the word of the very truth. I have judged
the heart of the deceased, and his soul stands
witness for him. His deeds are righteous in the
great balance and no sin has been found in
him.

Bast
Cat-headed
Goddess of love, sex, and

childbirth
Cats are sacred (many cats
were mummified in her
honor

Bes
Popular, household god
Dwarf
Frightens evil spirits away
Hangs out with Taweret, a

goddess of childbirth (she is

scary looking)
Roman soldiers wore amulets
with his likeness for protection

Hapy
God of the Nile floods
Keeps the land and river fertile
He has long hair, large breasts,

and a protruding stomach (all

symbols of fertility) and also a
beard and is blue
In some areas, he was
worshipped over Ra

Neith
A mother goddess
Invented childbirth
Created gods, humans, and

animals
Warrior goddess
Once she spit into the Nile and
this spit turned into Apep, a
serpent who lives in the
underworld and tries to eat Ra
each night

Sekhmet
Lion headed
Wife of Ptah (an early

creator god)
Breathes fire against
her enemies
Delivers punishment to
the gods