Much of the world’s religion today originated in the regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea, including what is today Israel, together with its neighboring countries. In ancient times, these old states often imported…
Category: God & Godess
Yamm
Yamm was a Tyrannical god of the sea found who we know of from a fragmentary papyrus (Astarte Papyrus) which seems to hint that his exorbitant demands for tribute from the other…
Horus the Child
Probably one of the best known of the child deities was Horus the Child, which was actually a name given to a number of related forms of divine infant. Most were the…
Kherty
Kherty was a ram god with a dual nature of hostility and protection. From Kherty the king has to be protected by no less a deity than Re. However, Kherty, as his…
Andjety
Andjety in his anthropomorphic form was originally worshipped in the mid-Delta in the Lower ninth nome. Andjety was the precursor of Osiris at the cult center of Busiris. The iconography of this…
Pakhet
God of inner strength, especially that of women, have the appearance of a woman with the head of a lioness. Pakhet in all likelihood was a combination of Bast and Sekhmet. As…
Set
God of winds, storms, chaos, evil, darkness, strength, war, conflict, Upper Egypt, have the appearance of a man with the head of a jackal-like animal. In depictions of his battle with Horus…
Sokar
God of the Memphis necropolis and the funerary cult, have the appearance of a man with the head of a hawk. Sokar (Seker) was the primary god of the Memphite funeral cult…