Ancient Egyptian Gods NAME Amon Anubis ATTRIBUTES Originally a god of reproductive forces, and, later as AmonRa, the

king of the gods and supreme creator. God of the dead and weigher of souls. APPEARANCE Usually depicted as a ram, or as a man or ram-headed man, both of the latter wearing a high plumed headdress. Depicted as a jackal-headed man, as a dog or jackal couched on a tomb or pedestal, or as a dog in the company of Isis. Represented as a solar disc with long rays terminating in hands. Sometimes depicted as a cat-headed woman.

Aten

Originally an aspect of Ra, and a deity which Akhenaton proclaimed as the supreme and only god, in a short-lived move towards monotheism. Goddess identified with the cat, and the daughter of Ra.

Bast Hathor

Goddess of the sky, and a mother-goddess associated with Depicted as a cow, or as a woman with a cows head or with love, childbirth and nurture. She was the daughter of Ra and cows horns. wife (or mother) of Horus. God of the sky; son of Osiris and Isis and husband of Hathor. Usually depicted as a falcon or as a falcon-headed man. Usually depicted with a shaven head, and seated holding a roll of papyrus. Most often depicted as a woman bearing on her head a throne (an ideogram of her name), and less often with a headdress in the form of a disc between cows horns.

Horus

Imhotep Patron of scribes and craftsmen, and of wisdom and medicine. In reality he was the architect of the Pyramid of Zoser, and was later deified and held to be the son of Ptah. Isis Goddess of magic and sorcery; wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.

Maat Mut Nut Osiris

Goddess of law, truth and justice; daughter of Ra and wife of Depicted as a woman with an ostrich feather (an ideogram Thoth. of her name) in her headdress. Wife of Amon, queen of all the gods and mother of all living things. Goddess of the sky. God of the dead; husband of Isis and son of Horus. Usually depicted as a woman, her head sometimes in the form of a vulture, an ideogram of her name. Often depicted as a naked woman, her back arched over the Earth. Depicted as a man wrapped in mummy bandages, his arms folded across his breast and holding in his hands a whip and crook, emblems of power. Usually depicted as a man holding an ankh (symbol of life) and a sceptre. Usually depicted as a falcon-headed man bearing on his head a sun-disc, or as a bull-headed man. Usually depicted as a lioness or as a lioness-headed woman. Most often depicted as a fantastic beast, or as a man with the head of a monster. Also associated with the crocodile and hippopotamus, and animals of the desert.

Ptah Re

Supreme god of creation, lord of truth, and patron of craftsmen. The personification of the Sun and the god of creation.

Sekhmet Goddess of war and strife, the daughter of Ra and wife of Ptah. Seth God of chaos and evil, the personification of desert drought.

Thoth

God of the Moon, and measurer of time, master of the words Usually depicted as a man with the head of an ibis, or as an of god, lord of magic and wisdom, and a universal deity. ibis or a dog-headed baboon.