God and defender of the Sun Boat, have the appearance of a serpent-headed man holding a spear, standing in the prow of the Sun Boat, or as a giant snake coiled around…
Category: God & Godess
Haurun
Haurun was an earth-god of Canaan identified most importantly in Egypt with the Great Sphinx at Giza. Haurun is attested as a name in Egypt for over 1200 years from 1900 BC…
Kek and Kauket
The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu (Hermopolis), four frog gods and four…
Thoth
God of knowledge, secrets, writing, and scribes, have the appearance of a man with the head of an ibis holding a scribe’s palette and stylus. He was also shown as a full…
Peteese and Pihor
Peteese and Pihor were two deified human brothers, sons of Kuper, who appear to have lived in the vicinity of Dendur in Lower Nubia during the 26th Dynasty. While the reason for…
Sah and Sopdet
The god Sah and his consort, Sopdet, who is probably better known by her Greek name, Sothis, personified the constellation of Orion, which he is sometimes referred to, and the bright, first…
Bat
Bat is one of the cow goddesses, particularly of Upper Egypt. She is hardly ever depicted in Egyptian art, though we find her more often in jewelry such as amulets head is…
Nun
It was from Nun that Ra created himself, rising up on the first piece of land – the primeval mound out of the lotus blossom, born from the world egg, or as…