Ancient Egypt Gods

Gods in ancient Egypt were worshipped a lot and they had many gods each associated with some specific element or quality.

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

• Amun who was 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.
• God of death, Anubis 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.
• 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 who 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 to ward off evil spirits.
• Geb - God of the Earth 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 - The Egyptian Falcon God, was among the five Osisrains god was a man with a hawk’s head.
• Isis - The Goddess of Fertility was also the goddess of magic and a healing goddess.
• Khepri was a self-created a god and was the rising sun.
• Khnum, a creator-god and the god of fertility.
• Ma'at - The Goddess of Truth and Justice personified moral and physical law.
• Nephthys the personification of darkness, death, and decay was one of the Osirian gods.
• The nun was the celestial waters who had no temples dedicated to him.
• Nut - Goddess of the Sky was personified as the sky and she was the consort of Geb and also considered the mother of the Osirian gods.
• Osiris - 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 myths claimed that he created everything.
• Ra Horakhty was a composite of the gods Horus and Ra.
• Sekhmet was a lion goddess, the goddess of war and battle.
• Seshat was the goddess of libraries and literature and the Egyptians associated her with Thoth.
• Seth - God of Chaos was the god of darkness and evil and was one of the Osirian gods.
• Shu was the god of air.
• Sobek - The 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.