English word senses marked with topical category "Egyptian deities"

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Total 54 word senses

• Ahti (Proper name) A goddess in Egyptian mythology.
• Ammit (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the Devourer of the Dead.
• Ammon (Proper name) Alternative form of Amun
• Amun (Proper name) An Egyptian wind deity associated with the town of Thebes; later (post-16th century BCE) the creator deity, often depicted with curling ram horns.
• Anhur (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian war god
• Anput (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Anubis
• Anubis (Proper name) In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god of the dead and tombs, commonly depicted with the head of a jackal.
• Apep (Proper name) Alternative form of Apophis
• Apophis (Proper name) An evil snake-god who tries to devour the sun every night.
• Apophis (Proper name) An asteroid that formerly had a high risk of collision with Earth.
• Ash (Proper name) The Egyptian god of oases.
• Atem (Proper name) Alternative form of Atum
• Atum (Proper name) The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.
• Bast (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Bastet
• Bastet (Proper name) The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.
• Bennu (Proper name) A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.
• Bes (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.
• Buto (Proper name) Synonym of Wadjet
• Geb (Proper name) The god who serves as the personification of the earth.
• Hathor (Proper name) The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.
• Horus (Proper name) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.
• Isis (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
• Keb (Proper name) Alternative form of Geb
• Khepera (Proper name) Alternative form of Khepri
• Khepri (Proper name) A scarab-faced god who represents the rising or morning sun.
• Khnum (Proper name) One of the earliest Egyptian gods. He is said to be the source of the Nile River.
• Medjed (Proper name) A minor god mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
• Nefertem (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower
• Neith (Proper name) The primeval goddess of war and creator deity.
• Nephthys (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.
• Not (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Nut.
• Nu (Proper name) The god who serves as the personification of the primeval waters that existed before the world.
• Nut (Proper name) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.
• Osiris (Proper name) The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.
• Ptah (Proper name) A god of creativity and craftsmen, sometimes also identified with the gods of death and the birth of the sun.
• Ra (Proper name) The Egyptian god of the Sun.
• Re (Proper name) Alternative form of Ra
• Rem (Proper name) An Egyptian fish god who fertilized the land with his tears.
• Resheph (Proper name) A god associated with plague, featured in Eblaite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian myth
• Satis (Proper name) A war, hunting, and fertility goddess
• Sekhmet (Proper name) The goddess of death, war, violence, plague, and medicine; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah; depicted as having the head of a lioness.
• Seshat (Proper name) The Egyptian goddess of writing and wisdom, often depicted as a scribe or recordkeeper.
• Set (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
• Seth (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
• Sexet (Proper name) Egyptian goddess of malevolent fire, sister of Bast, the bringer of ill-fortune
• Shu (Proper name) A god personifying the air and atmosphere.
• Sia (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, the personification of perception.
• Sobek (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.
• Sokar (Proper name) An Ancient Egyptian hawk god of the Memphite necropolis.
• Suchus (Proper name) Synonym of Sobek (“An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.”)
• Sutekh (Proper name) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
• Tefnut (Proper name) A goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead, commonly taken to be a personification of moisture
• Thoth (Proper name) The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
• Wadjet (Proper name) The patron goddess and namesake of the Ancient Egyptian city of Per-Wadjet, known as Buto to the Greeks. Wadjet takes the form of a cobra and is associated with the Eye of Horus.

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