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Gods. Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [3] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom [4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [5][6][7] Anubis – The god of funerals, embalming and protector of the dead [8]
Egyptian texts list the names of many deities whose nature is unknown, and make vague, indirect references to other gods who are not even named. [2] The Egyptologist James P. Allen estimates that more than 1,400 deities are named in Egyptian texts, [3] whereas his colleague Christian Leitz says there are "thousands upon thousands" of gods. [4]
Male deities depicted as animals or whose myths and iconography are associated with animals. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of ...
Jengu, Sawabantu and Duala water spirits. Nyambe, Bantu Supreme deity and god of the sun. Nzambi, Bakongo Sky Father and god of the sun. Nzambici, Bakongo Sky Mother and goddess of the moon and earth. Simbi, Bakongo nature spirits of the water and forest.
Osiris, Hathor. Siblings. (Anubis, Horus) half-brothers. Babi, also Baba, [1][2] in ancient Egyptian religion, was the deification of the hamadryas baboon, one of the animals present in ancient Egypt. His name is usually translated as "bull of the baboons", roughly meaning "chief of the baboons". [3]
Geb (Ancient Egyptian: gbb, Egyptological pronunciation: Gebeb), also known as Ceb (/ ˈ s ɛ b /, / ˈ k ɛ b /), [a] was the Egyptian god of the Earth [1] and a mythological member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. He could also be considered a father of snakes. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter created earthquakes [2] and that ...
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard. It describes 763 signs in 26 categories (A–Z, roughly).
Sobek Shedety, the patron of the Faiyum's centrally located capital, Crocodilopolis (or Egyptian "Shedet"), was the most prominent form of the god. Extensive building programs honoring Sobek were realized in Shedet, as it was the capital of the entire Arsinoite nome and consequently the most important city in the region.