Ancient Egyptian Gods

Many gods were worshiped devoutly throughout ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians Gods were a multitude of gods, where each associated with some specific element or quality.

Below are 30 of the most famous Gods of Egypt in no particular order.

• Amun: The King of the Egyptian gods was the greatest of the sun gods. Depictions of Amun represent him as a man with a hawk’s head with a bull’s tail hanging from his tunic.
• Anubis: The god of death was represented as either a man with a jackal’s head or as a jackal. He presided over funerals and guided the souls of the dead. He also oversaw the ceremony where the gods weighed a human heart to judge its salvation.
• Aten: The sun god had no human shape and was illustrated as a sun disc having hands at the end of each ray.
• Atum: Considered the oldest of the creation gods seem to have existed before anything else.
• Bast: The cat goddess, represented either as a woman having a cat head or as a cat. People in Ancient Egypt mummified cats in her honor.
• Bes: The patron of art, childbirth, and music was a war god. People placed Bes’s image above their headrests at night to ward off evil spirits.
• Geb: The god of the Earth was represented as the fertility of the earth.
• Happy: The God of the Nile was considered to have created everything.
• Hathor: The cow goddess was also a mother goddess who represented as a cow or a woman with a cow’s head or horns.
• Horus: The Egyptian falcon god. He was among the five Osisrains gods and was depicted as a man with a hawk’s head.

• Ihy: The Egyptian god of music, he represented childhood, joy, and music. As a child god, Ihy was fit into the conception of gods being connected as a family.
• Isis: The Goddess of Fertility. She was also the goddess of magic and a healing goddess.
• Khepri: A self-created god and often depicted as the rising sun.
• Khnum: A creator-god and the god of fertility.
• Ma'at:  The Goddess of Truth and Justice and was personified moral and physical law.
• Nefertum: The god of perfume who was originally thought of as a man with a pleasant blossom on his head. He was also worshiped as the god of healing and believed to be an aromatherapist.
• Nephthys: The personification of darkness, death, and decay and was one of the Osirian gods.
• Nun: The celestial waters and had no temples dedicated to him.
• Nut: The Goddess of the Sky and was personified as the sky. She was the consort of Geb and also considered the mother of the Osirian gods.
• Osiris: The God of the Underworld was the god of the dead and resurrection.
• Ptah: The god of artists and artisans and a craft-god.
• Ra: A sun god and some myths claimed that he created everything.
• Ra Horakhty: A composite of the gods Horus and Ra.
• Sekhmet: The lion goddess was the goddess of war and battle.
• Seshat: The goddess of libraries and literature and the Egyptians associated her with Thoth.
• Seth: The God of Chaos was the god of darkness and evil and one of the Osirian gods.
• Shu: The god of air.
• Sobek: The Crocodile God of Strength.
• Tawaret: The hippopotamus goddess and the patroness of motherhood and childbirth.
• Tefnut: The goddess of moisture and the consort of Shu.
• Thoth: The mon god and the patron of the arts, hieroglyphics, science, speech, and wisdom.