Racquel Fox History 2 December 10, 2012 Major Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt*

Name of Deity What the Deity Rules Description Image

Amun

King of the Gods in the New Kingdom

Amun is a man with a ram head and an ostrich plumed hat. Animal: ram Anubis is a man with a jackal head. Animal: jackal Bast is a woman with the head of a cat. Animal: cat Hathor is a woman with the ears of a cow and the headdress of horns and a sun disk. Animal: cow Horus is a man with the head of a hawk. Animal: Hawk

Anubis

God of the dead and embalming

Bast (Bastet)

Healing power of the sun

Hathor

Love, beauty and joy

Horus

Inherited the throne of Egypt

Isis

Crafts

Isis is a woman with the headdress in the shape of a throne and wears a pair of cow horns with a sun disk. Symbol: Amulet (protection)

Ma'at

Justice and truth

Maat is a woman with a feather on her head. Symbol: feather

Osiris

Ruler of the Dead

Osiris is a mummified man with a white conelike headdress with feathers. Ptah is a man wrapped in a tight white cloak carrying a staff. Ra is a man with a hawk head and a headdress with a sun disk. Symbol: Sun Set is a man with a head. He represented everything that jeopardized harmony in Egypt. Thoth is a man with the head of an ibis and holding a writing palette. Animal: Ibis, baboon

Ptah

Patron of Memphis

Ra

Sun god

Set (Seth)

God of chaos

Thoth

Wisdom and vizier, scribe to the gods

Bes

Protector of pregnant women, newborn babies and the family

Dwarf with human and lion features wearing the skin.

Shu

God of the air

Shu is a man wearing a headdress with feathers. Animal: Lion

Tawaret

Protected women during pregnancy and childbirth

Tawaret is a woman with the head of a hippopotamus, the arms and legs of a lion, the back and tail of a crocodile, and the stomach of a pregnant woman.