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The Egyptian Book of the dead : the Book of going forth by day : being the Papyrus of Ani (royal scribe of the divine offerings), written and illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by scribes and artists unknown, including the balance of chapters of the books of the dead known as the theban recension, compiled from ancient texts, dating back to the ...
An Egyptian depiction of Resheph as a "menacing god" brandishing a weapon and holding a shield. Metropolitan Museum of Art . Christiane Zivie-Coche notes that as in the case of other foreign deities incorporated into the Egyptian pantheon , Resheph's Egyptian iconography was primarily meant to illustrate his functions, rather than his place of ...
Epione, goddess of the soothing of pain; Aceso, goddess of curing sickness and healing wounds; Aegle, goddess of radiant good health; Hera, goddess of childbirth; she was called upon for women's safety during childbirth and for good health of the infants; Heracles Apotropaios, god of strength and athletes; he was trained in medicine and called ...
Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form; Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat; Nu (mythology) primordial waters Set (deity) was not originally evil, but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.
The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Second Edition. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-02362-4. Ions, Veronica (1982). Egyptian Mythology. New York, NY: Peter Bedrick Books. ISBN 978-0-87226-249-2 – via archive.org. Kaper, Olaf Ernst (1997a). Temples and Gods in Roman Dakhlah: Studies in the indigenous cults of an Egyptian oasis ...
The worship of some Egyptian gods spread to neighboring lands, especially to Canaan and Nubia during the New Kingdom, when those regions were under pharaonic control. In Canaan, the exported deities, including Hathor, Amun, and Set, were often syncretized with native gods, who in turn spread to Egypt. [236]
Similarly, Eris, the malevolent "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is the main antagonist in the DreamWorks 2003 animated movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas against Sinbad and his allies. The dwarf planet Eris was named after this Greek goddess in 2006. [103] In 2019, the New Zealand moth species Ichneutica eris was named in honour of Eris. [104]
This is common with Egyptian snake gods and associated with the imagery of snakes crawling across the earth. [9] When Geb is represented as his father, Nehebkau's mother is considered to be the harvest goddess Renenutet: [1] the ‘good snake’ who ensured bountiful fields, harvests and kitchens for the living [7] and nourished the kas of the ...