Ancient Egypt Gods

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

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

• Amun was the King of the Egyptian gods and 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 is 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 who is considered the oldest of the creation gods seems to have existed before anything else.
• Bast represented the cat goddess and is 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’ image above their headrests at night to ward off evil spirits.
• Geb was god of the Earth and represented the fertility of the earth.
• Happy, god of the Nile was considered to have created everything.
• Hathor, the cow goddess was also a mother goddess who was represented as a cow or a woman with a cow’s head or horns.
• Horus was the Egyptian Falcon God. He was among the five Osisrains gods and was depicted as a man with a hawk’s head.
• Isis was the Goddess of Fertility. She was also the goddess of magic and a healing goddess.
• Khepri was a self-created god and was often depicted as the rising sun.
• Khnum was a creator-god and the god of fertility.
• Ma'at was the Goddess of Truth and Justice and personified moral and physical law.
• Nephthys was the personification of darkness, death, and decay and was one of the Osirian gods.
• Nun was the celestial waters and had no temples dedicated to him.
• Nut was Goddess of the Sky and was personified as the sky and she was the consort of Geb and also considered the mother of the Osirian gods.
• Osiris was God of the Underworld was the god of the dead and resurrection.
• Ptah was the god of artists and artisans and a craft-god.
• Ra was a sun god and some myths claimed that he created everything.
• Ra Horakhty was a composite of the gods Horus and Ra.
• Sekhmet was a lion goddess, and the goddess of war and battle.
• Seshat was the goddess of libraries and literature and the Egyptians associated her with Thoth.
• Seth was God of Chaos was the god of darkness and evil and was one of the Osirian gods.
• Shu was the god of air.
• Sobek was he Crocodile God of Strength.
• Tawaret was the hippopotamus goddess and the patroness of motherhood and childbirth.
• Tefnut was the goddess of moisture and the consort of Shu.
• Thoth was a moon god and the patron of the arts, hieroglyphics, science, speech, and wisdom.