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Group 1

Creation account: sky separated from earth

Field of Rushes

Nsw-Bity = The King of Upper & Lower Egypt

Seth Horus God of Life God of Chaos

Eye of Horus
Symbol of self-sacrifice

Henty-Ementiyw

Foremost of the Westerners

ISIS
(Mother of Horus) = Personification of the throne

Group 2

CARTOUCHE

Maat

OSIRIS

Table of offerings

The Pyramid Texts

The Opening of the Mouth ceremony

Divine conception

An obelisk

RE-Horakhty

Re-Horus of the Two Horizons

KHEPRI

Winged-scarab amulet

Statue of King Pepy II sitting on his mothers lap

A BA-bird

Example of an ostracon

A tomb relief showing the harper

Group 3

The Levantine god:

Baal

Statuettes of SUMERIANS

Ziggurat = elevated sacred space

Illustration of divine birth

Osiris

Anubis - god of the dead/ god of embalming

Osirian symbolism: the djed-pillar

Relief of Akhenaten & Nefertiti offering to the Aten

AMUN
HIDDEN ONE

AMUNRASONTER
AMUN-RE,
KING OF THE GODS

Amun

Group4

Sacred bark

SEKHMET (LIONESS)
The eye of Re

Two examples of penitential stelae

Example of a penitential stela

THOTH

GOD OF WISDOM / WRITING

HATHOR
GODDESS

OF
LOVE &

CHILDBIRTH

The cow-goddess Hathor: often depicted with a human face but with cows ears and horns on head on column capitals

The weighing of the heart scene

The Great Reckoning

Magical stela

Gilgamesh Epic on a clay tablet

NAOS

Group 5

Burial chamber in royal tomb in Kings Valley

Osirion at Abydos

The Field of Reeds

MERETSEGER

The Peak of the West

she who loves silence

Pylons of temple

PROCESSIONAL TEMPLES

Isis & baby Horus and madonna & child

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