This is a list of Egyptian Gods and goddesses from Egyptian mythology. It is said that ancient Egyptians worshiped a number of gods (deities) at different times and in different places. It is important to under that ancient Egyptian “gods and goddesses” were mainly just REPRESENTATIONS of certain elements of nature, human attributes and other important aspects of their lifestyle that we indeed celebrated and ‘worshiped’. The importance of certain gods and goddesses change over time while others were nonexistent until in later eras of Kemet.
| Name of position | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Amun | A creator god | Patron of the city of Thebes |
| Amunet | Wife of Amunn, one of the creation goddesses. | |
| Anhur | An Egyptian sky god and God of war. His name meant “sky-bearer”. | Husb nd of Menhit |
| Anput | Goddess of the seventeenth Nome of Upper Egypt | Mother of Kebechet |
| Anubis | God of death, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies Jackal-headed god | Son of Set and Nephthys, given to Osiris by Nephthys to protect from his father |
| Anuket | Goddess of the river Nile | |
| Apis | A live bull worshipped as a god at Memphis | |
| Apophis | God of snakes and war and Chaos | He lives in the Duat. Also known as Apep. God of chaos sometimes seen as Apophis the chaos snake. |
| Aten | The disk of the sun | Originally an aspect of Ra |
| Babi | God of baboons | |
| Bast | Cat goddess | Known to protect pregnant women and children. She is also involved in celebrations. The protector of Ra, his third eye. |
| Bes | Dwarf god of entertainment | |
| Geb | God of the earth | Husband to Nut and father of Set, Osiris, Nephthys, Isis and Horus |
| Hapi | God of the Nile | |
| Hathor | Goddess of love | “alter ego” of Sekhmet |
| Heket | Goddess of frogs | |
| Horus (Heru) | God of war, sky, and falcons | He is a brother to Anubis and the son of Osiris (Auset) and Isis. In another story, he is the sibling of Osiris and Isis and son of Geb and Nut. |
| Isis (Auset) | Goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and protection | She is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother and sister of Horus. When Osiris died, she resurrected him with magic by reattaching his limbs. |
| Kebechet | Goddess of purification | Also known as the wandering goddess, or the lost child |
| Khepri | God of scarab beetles, sun, rebirth, and creation | Ra’s aspect in the morning |
| Khnum | Ram-headed god, and god of the Nile River. | Ra’s aspect in the evening |
| Khonsu | God of the moon | Known in legend Nut gambles with him to add 5 days on to the end of the year to give birth to Horus, Osiris, Set, Nephthys, and Isis. Also known as the demon days. |
| Kuk | Personification of darkness | |
| Maahes | Egyptian lion-headed god of war | The son of the creator god Ptah, as well as the feline goddess Sekhmet |
| Ma’at | Goddess of justice, truth and of order | Also the daughter of Ra Command for Order |
| Mafdet | God of justice | Executioner of criminals, protector of the King’s chambers |
| Menhit | Minor lion goddess | Wife of Anhur |
| Nephthys | Funerary goddess | Consort of Seth, mother of Anubis |
| Nekhbet | Vulture goddess | Sister of Wadjet |
| Nut | Wife of Geb | |
| Osiris (Ausar) | God of the underworld and the afterlife | Husband and brother of Isis, Brother and mortal enemy to Set, father to Horus and Anubis. |
| Pakhet | A goddess of motherhood and of war | |
| Ptah | God of creation | |
| Qebui | God of the North-wind | |
| Qetesh | Goddess of nature, beauty, sacred ecstasy , and sexual pleasure | Adopted into ancient Egypt from Kadesh in what is now Syria. |
| Ra | God of the Sun and creation | Ra was king of the gods until Osiris took over his throne. He is also known as Amun-Ra and Akmun-Rah |
| Raet-Tawy | Female sun goddess of Upper and Lower Egypt | Female counterpart of Ra |
| Sekhmet | Goddess of lions, fire and vengeance | Alter form of Hathor |
| Seker | Falcon god | Primary god of the Memphis necropolis |
| Serqet | Goddess of scorpions, magic, medicine, and healing venomous stings and bites. | |
| Seshat | Goddess of writing and measurement | |
| Set | God of chaos/change, deserts, storms, foreigners | Also spelled Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh, Seth). Mortal enemy and brother to Osiris, Husband to Nephthys. He killed his brother Osiris because of jealousy. No one can really describe what he is. He is a human hybrid, half human mixed with an unknown creature. It is sometimes called the set animal |
| Shu | God of wind, air , and light | Consort of Tefnut, father of Geb and Nut Greatgrandfather to Anubis and Horus |
| Sobek | God of crocodiles | Rows Ra’s Sunboat through the Duat |
| Sopdu | A god of sky, the lord of the east. and is connected with Sah the goddess of Sopdet | Associated with the sun and with the planet Venus |
| Tawaret | Hippopotamus goddess Goddess of childbirth and fertility | |
| Tefnut | Lion goddess of water and fertility | Consort of Shu, mother of Geb and Nut |
| Thoth (Tehudi) | Scribe God of Knowledge, the Moon, Measurement, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Djeru, Records, Thought, Intelligence, Meditation, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Hieroglyphics, Magic, Secrets, Scribes, and Writing | Also known as Djehuti |
| Wadjet | Goddess of protection | Sister of Nekhbet |
| Wadj-wer | Personifies the Mediterranean Sea and other lakes. |
