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The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
The ba of a god was said to periodically leave the divine realm to dwell in the images of that god. [188] By inhabiting these images, the gods left their concealed state and took on a physical form. [76] To the Egyptians, a place or object that was ḏsr—"sacred"—was isolated and ritually pure, and thus fit for a god to inhabit. [189]
17 Egyptian mythology. 18 Etruscan mythology. 19 Georgian mythology. ... deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African mythology (sub-Saharan)
See also Category:Egyptian gods. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. * Egyptian death goddesses (1 C, 7 P) A. Anat (22 P)
Which goddess these images represent is not known, but the Egyptians adopted her iconography and came to regard her as an independent deity, Qetesh, [71] whom they associated with Hathor. [ 72 ] Hathor was closely connected with the Sinai Peninsula , [ 73 ] which was not considered part of Egypt proper but was the site of Egyptian mines for ...
List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions
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Sekhmet was considered the wife of the god Ptah and mother of his son Nefertum. She was also said to be the mother of the lion-headed war god, Maahes. She was also considered to be the sister of the cat goddess Bastet. [8] The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet is the most represented deity in most Egyptian collections worldwide.