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Meet the Egyptian Pantheon

Pantheons & Myths - Eqyptian

Human and semihuman forms of some of the chief Egyptian deities: 1) Horus, son of Osiris, a sky god closely connected with the king. 2) Set, enemy of Horus and Osiris, god of storms and disorder. 3) Thoth, a moon deity and god of writing, counting and wisdom. 4) Khnum, a ram god who shapes men and their kas on his potter's wheel. 5) Hathor, goddess of love birth and death. 6) Sobek, the crocodile god, Lord of the Faiyum. 7) Ra, the sun god in his many forms. 8) Amon, a creator god often linked with Ra. 9) Ptah, another creator god and the patron of craftsmen. 10) Anubis, god of mummification. 11) Osiris, god of agriculture and ruler of the dead. 12) Isis, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus and Mistress of Magic.

Egyptian Gods of the Ogdoad

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Egyptian Gods of the Ogdoad

According to the myth, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos was the only thing existed on earth before there was land. There were four frog gods and four snake goddesses who lived this chaos. They were four pair of deities, Nun and Naunet (the primordial water), Amun and Amaunet (representing hiden powers), Kuk with Kauket (darkness) and Heh and Hauhet (infininte space). This group of eight gods formed the Ogdoad. Then very first land was rose out of Nun in the form of mound.

Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Darkness was all there was in the beginning. The Ogdoad then awakened – Nun and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Ku and Kauket, and Hu and Haunet. In concert they raised a hill out of the first waters. An egg was on this hill, and from it, the god Atum – the father of all – was born.

Egyptian Gods of Ennead

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Egyptian Gods of Ennead

Then Ra came into existance, born from a lotus flower that emerged from the waters. He spat out Tefnut; The goddess of moisture, and Shu; the God of air. He had nowhere to stand so he called upon a mound of earth to rise up from the depths of Chaos, and the first spot of land appeared before him. This place would become Egypt, and all the land around it would become the other continents.

On this Land Tefnut and Shu had 2 children named Nut and Geb. Ra then proclaimed that Geb would be the god of the earth and Nut would become the Goddess of the sky.

Geb and Nut fell in love with each other and soon the sky and the earth became connected. Ra became angered at what Nut and Geb had done so he sent Shu down to separate them. Although he succeeded in separating Geb and Nut, Nut became pregnant and would give birth to the 4 deities that would complete what would now become the "Ennead" of Gods. From the Ennead all other Egyptian Gods would form. For now, the world would be complete....

Egyptian Gods of Memphis

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The Triad of Memphis

Built by the kings of the First Dynasty, Memphis had been the capital city of Egypt around 3000 BC, after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. Though not much has survived from ancient Memphis, little remains– including scattered statues, alabaster beds, gigantic sarcophagi, sphinxes, and temples– provide clues to the religious life of the city.

At the reduction of influence of gods of Heliopolis, about the fifth and sixth dynasties, the gods of Memphis started to take a new character. As first principle, creator, 'father of gods’, and head of a triad (that included his consort Sekhmet and their son Nefertem), god Ptah (who was believed to have had international political powers) was combined with the gods of Heliopolis. Since Horus was an ingredient of god Ptah, the latter was made a supreme god when the former became the god of both Upper and Lower Egypt (after wars between him and Seth were brought to an end) .