All Egyptian Gods Names
The sun god re ra one of the creator gods of ancient egypt.
All egyptian gods names. Neper a god of grain. Depicted as a dwarf. Amonet amentet amentit imentet imentit and ament anut a warrior goddess defender of the sun god and protector or the king in battle. He was then called amun ra.
When amun was combined with the sun god ra he was even more powerful. The following is a list of the names of egyptian gods and their roles. If you include nicknames official titles and honorifics some gods have hundreds of names. Judie anderson encyclopædia britannica inc.
Some of these deities names are well known. God of the dead funerals embalming and tombs. Amaunet the ogdoad goddess of the north wind this carried the rain she was the female form of the originally androgynous god amun. The complete alphabetical list of egyptian gods and goddess names.
It is not surprising then that there were over 2 000 deities in the egyptian pantheon. Please select a name from the list below to view the egyptian god s description. Ra the god of the sun ra was the first pharaoh of the world back in the days when gods inhabited egypt. Nemty falcon god worshipped in middle egypt who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods.
The gods and goddesses of ancient egypt were an integral part of the people s everyday lives. Egyptian name which means. Egyptian name which means the one who is humble. One of several deities associated with the sun the god re was usually represented with a human body and the.
Depicted with the head of jackal and body of a man. The worship of amun first appears in ancient egypt s old kingdom 2686 2181 bc where he is regarded as a relatively minor god. Ba a god of fertility. The godchecker holy database currently contains 437.
Egyptian name which means the one who resembles golden treasures. Astennu a baboon god associated with thoth. Ptah a creator deity and god of craftsmen the patron god of memphis. Each day ra s golden sun ship would sail across the sky and each night it would travel through the underground world of the duat sailing the river of darkness and fighting off monsters.
Ra the sun god. Many legendary characters have more than one name. Egyptian name which means prophet s name. Baal sky and storm god from syria and canaan worshipped in egypt during the new kingdom.
A cat or lion headed goddess bastet was a protector of the home and also a goddess of sensual pleasure. Egyptian name which means morning sun. We have 162 individual gods listed in the egyptian pantheon of gods and spirits. Ash a god of the libyan desert and oases west of egypt.
Asclepius a greek god worshipped in egypt at saqqara. Isis osiris horus amun ra hathor bastet thoth anubis and ptah while many others less so. Scholars have suggested that the greek word aiguptos the source of the name egypt may have started as a corruption of hwt ka ptah the name of one of ptah s shrines. Bastet was a popular goddess in egypt and was a daughter of ra and isis.
Good egyptian names for cool girls. Amun is the ancient egyptian god of the air and sun. Osiris god of death and resurrection who rules the underworld and enlivens vegetation the sun god and deceased souls.