Ancient Egyptian Deities

Pharaohs would have deities etched into their tombs and statues, flanking them, to show that the God's accepted this Pharaoh as ruler

• Aken – ferryman to the underworld
• Aker - deification of the horizon
• Am-heh - minor underworld god
• Ammit – crocodile-headed devourer in Duat, not a true deity
• Amun or Amen – "the hidden one", a local creator deity later married to Mut after rising in importance
• Amunet – female aspect of the primordial concept of air in the Ogdoad cosmogony; depicted as a cobra snake or a snake-headed woman
• Andjety - god thought to be a precursor to Osiris
• Anhur - god of war
• Ankt - a minor war goddess
• Anput - female aspect of Anubis
• Anti - god of ferrymen
• Anubis or Yinepu – dog or jackal god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead
• Anuket - gazelle-headed goddess of the Nile River, the child of Satis and among the Elephantine triad of deities
• Apophis or Apep – evil serpent of the Underworld and enemy of Ra; formed from a length of Neith's spit during her creation of the world
• Apis – bull deity worshipped in the Memphis region
• Ash - god of oases and the vineyards of the western Nile Delta

• The Aten – sun god worshipped primarily during the period of Atenism in the eighteenth dynasty when Pharoah Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) introduced monotheistic worship

• Atum – a creator deity, and the setting sun
• Babi - baboon god associated with death and virility
• Banebdjedet - ram god of fertility
• Ba-Pef - minor underworld god
• Bastet or Bast – protector of the pharaoh and solar goddess, depicted as a lioness, house cat, cat-bodied or cat-headed woman
• Bat – cow goddess who gave authority to the king; her cult originated in Hu and persisted widely until absorbed as an aspect of Hathor after the eleventh dynasty
• Bata - bull god
• Bes – dwarfed demigod associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment
• Chenti-cheti - crocodile god
• Geb – god of the Earth, first ruler of Egypt and husband of Nut
• Ha - god of the western deserts
• Hapi or Hapy – deification of the annual flooding of the Nile, associated with fertility
• Hathor or Hethert – cowor cow-goddess of the sky, fertility, love, beauty and music
• Hatmehit - fish goddess, originally a deification of the Nile River
• Hedetet - scorpion goddess, later incorporated into Isis
• Heka - deification of magic

• Hemen - falcon god

• Heqet – frog or a frog-headed goddess of childbirth and fertility
• Hemsut - goddess of fate and protection

• Heryshaf - ram god

• Horus or Heru – falcon-headed god of the sky, pharaohs, war and protection

• The four sons of Horus - personifications of the four canopic jars

• Hu - deification of the first word
• Huh - deification of eternity
• Iabet - goddess of the east, consort of Min and cleanser of Ra
• Iah - god of the moon

• Iat - minor goddess of milk and, by association, of nurturing and childbirth

• Imentet - goddess of the necropoleis west of the Nile
• Isis or Aset – goddess of magic, motherhood and fertility and consort of Osiris; represented as the throne
• Iusaaset – a primal goddess described as "the grandmother of all of the deities"
• Kebechet - deification of embalming liquid
• Khepri – the scarab beetle or scarab-headed god of rebirth and the sunrise
• Kneph - a creator deity
• Khnum – ram-headed creator god of the flooding of the Nile River
• Khonsu – god of youth and the moon
• Kuk –frog-headed personification of darkness, whose consort or female form was the snake-headed Kauket
• Maahes – lion-headed god of war, weather.
• Ma'at – goddess who personified concept of truth, balance, justice and order
• Mafdet – goddess who protected against snakes and scorpions
• Mehen - protective snake god which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night
• Menhit – goddess of war, associated with Sekhmet
• Meret - goddess associated with rejoicing, singing and dancing
• Meretseger – cobra-goddess of tomb builders and protector of royal tombs
• Meskhenet – goddess of childbirth and the creator of each person's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth
• Min – god of fertility and lettuce, often represented as a man with an erect penis
• Mnevis – the sacred bull of Heliopolis
• Monthu - falcon god of war
• Mut – mother goddess, associated with the waters from which everything was born
• Nefertem - god of healing and beauty
• Nehebkau - guardian of the entrance to the underworld
• Neith – goddess of creation, weaving, war and the dead
• Nekhbet – vulture goddess; patron of pharaohs and Upper Egypt
• Neper - androgynous deification of grain
• Nephthys or Nebthet – goddess of death, night and lamentation; the nursing mother of Horus and the pharaohs
• Nu – deification of the primordial watery abyss
• Nut – goddess of the sky and heavens
• Osiris or Wesir – merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife and consort of Isis
• Pakhet – a synthesis of Sekhmet and Bast
• Petbe - god of revenge
• Ptah – creator deity, also a god of craft
• Qebui – god of the north wind
• Ra – the sun; also a creator deity, whose chief cult centre was based in Heliopolis
• Rem - fish god who fertilises the land with his tears
• Renenutet - deification of the act of giving a true name during birth
• Saa or Sia - deification of perception
• Satet – goddess of war, hunting, fertility and the flooding of the Nile River
• Sekhmet – lioness goddess of destruction, pestilence and war; fierce protector of the pharaoh, and later as an aspect of Hathor
• Seker or Sokar - falcon god of the Memphite necropolis
• Serket – scorpion goddess of healing stings and bites
• Seshat – goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics; depicted as a scribe
• Set or Seth – god of the desert, storms and foreigners; later god of chaos
• Shai - deification of the concept of fate
• Shed - savior deity
• Shezmu - god of execution, slaughter, blood, oil and wine
• Shu - personification of air
• Sobek – crocodilegod of the Nile; patron of the military
• Sobkou - messenger god
• Sopdet - deification of the star Sothis (Sirius)
• Sopdu - personification of the scorching heat of the sun
• Ta-Bitjet - scorpion goddess identified as the consort of Horus
• Tatenen - god of the primordial mound
• Taweret – hippopotamus goddess of pregnant women and protector during childbirth
• Tefnut – goddess of moisture, moist air, dew and rain.
• Tenenet - goddess of beer
• Thoth or Djehuty – ibis-headed god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy and magic
• Unut - snake goddess
• Wadjet – snake goddess and protector of Lower Egypt
• Wadj-wer – fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean Sea or lakes of the Nile Delta
• Weneg - plant god supporting the heavens
• Werethekau - personification of supernatural powers
• Wepwawet – jackal god of warfare and hunting
• Wosret – a localized guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus; an early consort of Amun, later superseded by Mut