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…
Kali
Kali is a ferocious form of the Divine Mother, who sent her Shakti, the Mother Gauri, to free the gods from the dominion of the demonic forces Shumbh and Nishumbh. Kali is…
Mehen
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…
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…
The City of Karnak
El-Karnak is a small village in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile some 2.5 km north of Luxor. It stands at 25°43’N 32°39’E. Visitors to the area – particularly…
Upper Egyptian Neolithic
The people who are believed to be the ancestors to the predynastic Egyptians were a people known as the Badarian people. They lived in Upper Egypt, on the eastern bank of the…
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…