ANUBIS |
BAST |
HATHOR |
HERU-KHUTI |
HORUS |
ISIS |
MATT |
MEH-URT |
MIN |
NEPH THYS |
NU |
NUIT |
OSIRIS |
PTAH |
RA |
SEB |
SEKHET |
SERQET |
SET |
SHU & TEFNUT |
SHU |
TEM & KHEPERA |
THOTH |
URAEUS GODDESSES |
Abydos:
Greek name for Abtu. Cult centre of Osiris.
Aker:
An earth god in the form of a lion with two forequarters.
Akert/Aukert:
The underworld.
Ament/Amentj/Amentet:
The underworld, realm of the dead, identified with goddess Hathor.
Amit:
A fire goddess.
Aminut:
(Pronounced ‘Amoot’.) A goddess in the form of a composite animal who devours the unrighteous dead.
Amun:
(Pronounced ‘Amoon’.) Creator god, the ‘hidden one’, often identified with Ra.
An:
A form of the sun god.
Anes bandlet:
A bandlet of red linen.
Antes:
Meaning unknown.
Annu:
On, Heliopolis.
An-rut-f:
‘The place where nothing grows’
—
a region of the underworld.
Anubis:
(Pronounced with emphasis on second syllable.) Greek name for Anpu. Dog or jackal god of embalming, guide of souls. Son of Nephthys and Osiris (or Set).
Apep:
The giant serpent of chaos, enemy of Ra.
Asyut:
(Pronounced ‘As-yoot’.) Ancient town of Middle Egypt.
Atet/Matet boat:
(Pronounced ‘Ah-tet’/’Mah-tet’) The sun god’s boat from midnight to midday.
Aten:
(Pronounced ‘Ah-ten’.) The deified sun disc.
Atmu:
A god of the primeval waters.
Atum:
(Pronounced ‘Atoom’.) The Creator, the ‘complete one’, often identified with Ra.
Bah:
Heron god of plenty. A deity identified with Ra.
Ben-ben:
A pyramidal stone representing the Primeval Mound on which the Creator stood at the creation of the world, or alternatively the petrified semen of the sun god. The original ben-ben was probably a meteorite.
Bull of Djedu/Bull of Nedit/Bull of the West:
Titles of Osiris.
Children of impotent rebellion:
Chaos demons, enemies of Ra, followers of Apep.
Conclaves:
Two assemblies of the gods, for Upper Egypt rind for Lower Egypt.
Coptos:
Capital of the fifth nome, one of two principal cult centres of Min.
Djed:
(Pronounced ‘Jed’.) A ceremonial pillar, possibly representing a tree. Can symbolize the backbone of the risen Osiris, used as amulet.
Djedu:
(Pronounced ~Jeddu’.) Busiris, cult centre of Osiris.
Djendru-bark:
(Pronounced ‘Jendroo’.) A deified sacred boat.
Duamutef:
(Pronounced ‘Dwa-moo-tef’ with emphasis on the second syllable.) A Son of Horus, depicted with a jackal’s or dog’s head. (May be regarded as god of elemental fire.) Sometimes female.
Edjo:
A name of the goddess Wadjet, identified with Hathor.
Ennead:
(Pronounced ‘En-ee-ad’ with emphasis on the first syllable.) Greek term for the pesedjet — a group of nine deities worshipped at Heliopolis. An idea copied by other cult centres.
Epiphi:
The month from May 15 to June 13.
Eye of Horus/Eye of Ra:
The sun, identified with goddesses Hathor and Sekhmet. The Eye of Horus is often conceived of as his left eye, the moon. (See Utchat/Wedjat.)
Field of Rushes:
Idyllic region of the afterlife realm, in heaven.
Four Sons of Horus:
Four deities which guard the bodily organs of the dead and represent the four elements and cardinal points. They are Qebhsennuf, Duamutef, Imsety and Hapi.
Geb:
(Pronounced ~Geeb’ with a hard G.) God of the earth, son
of
Shu and Tefnut, brother and husband of Nut, father of
Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys.
Gehesty:
The place where Osiris was murdered.
God of One Face: A title of Horus.
Hamemet:
Celestial beings who may have been or may become human.
Hapi:
(Pronounced ‘Haahpy’.) God of the Nile, depicted as a man with pendulous breasts.
Hapi/Hapy: (Pronounced ‘Haahpy’.) A Son of Horus, depicted with an ape’s or baboon’s head. (May be regarded as god of elemental earth.)
Harakhti:
(Emphasis is on the second syllable.) ‘Horus of the horizon’, the constellation of Leo and a form of the sun god. Har-Sopd: Horus identified with Sopdu, the falcon god of the eastern Delta.
Hathor:
(Pronounced ‘Haythor’ or ‘Hat-hor’.) Sky goddess, daughter of Ra, depicted as a cow or cow-eared woman. Goddess of love and beauty.
Hau-nebut:
(Pronounced ‘Hor-neboot’.) The Isles. Heka: Magic, sometimes personified as a god.
Henti period:
Sixty years.
Heru-hekennu:
A member of the Great Triad of Bubastis,
offspring of Osiris and Bast, depicted as a hawk-headed maii Heru-khenti-an-maati: ‘Horus dweller in darkness’, the Blind Horus, i.e. when neither the sun nor the moon is visible.
Heru-khuti:
‘Horus of the ‘Two Horizons’. Horus, especially as the god of the rising sun (and Horns or Osiris as the constellation of Orion).
Het-benbenet:
‘Mansion of the Pyramidion’, capstone of a pyramid
—
the dwelling of the sun god.
Het-ka-Ptah:
‘The House of Ptah’s ka’, Memphis.
Hetepet:
‘Lady of offerings’, or ‘Lady of peace’, consort of Atum.
Horus:
Greek name for Hor, Har or Heru. The sun god in the form of a falcon. Horus the Elder (Haroeris) is the brother of Osiris, Set, Isis and Nephthys. Horus the Younger or Child (Harpocrates or Harsiese) is the son of Isis and Osiris. These two Horuses are often conflated.
Hor-em-Akhet:
‘Horus in the horizon’, the Sphinx, a form of
the sun god.
Hunnu:
The sun god.
lasu:
(Pronounced ‘Yassoo’.) A heavenly region.
Imsety:
(Pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable.) A Son of Horus. (May be regarded as god of elemental water.) Ipu: Panopolis, capital of the ninth nome of Upper Egypt, one of two principal cult centres of Min.
Isis:
Greek name for Aset. Great Mother goddess of wisdom, compassion and magic. Daughter of Nut and Geb (or Ra, or Thoth), sister of Horus the Elder, Set and Nephthys, sister and wife of Osiris, mother of Horus the Younger. Identified with Sothis/Sirius.
Khepera:
Creator god of the rising sun. A form of Ra, depicted as a scarab beetle.
Kher-aha:
Religious centre south of Cairo.
Khnum:
(Pronounced ‘Kuh-noom’.) Creator god, depicted with a ram’s head, who moulds humans on his potter’s wheel.
Khu:
A shining spirit.
Lake of Sehseh/Lake of Testes:
Regions of the sky or underworld.
Maat:
Goddess of justice, truth and order, daughter of Ra.
Mansion of the Prince in On:
Palace of divine justice in
Heliopolis.
Medja-land:
The eastern deserts of Nubia.
Meht-urt/Meh-urt/Mekhwert/Mehet-Weret:
A sky goddess,Neith-Hathor in the form of a cow.
Menth/Mont:
Falcon-headed war god of Thebes.
Mert:
The two
Songstress-goddesses. (Isis and Nephthys.)
Mounds of Horus/Mounds of Set:
Regions of the sky or
underworld.
Mut:
(Pronounced ‘Moot’.) Mother goddess in the form of a
vulture.
Nak:
A name of Apep, the chaos serpent.
Neb-er-Tcher:
‘Lord of AU’, the Creator, identified with Ra.
Nedit:
‘Where he was cast down’, the place where Osiris was
murdered.
Neith:
(Pronounced ‘Neet’.) War-like Creator goddess of Sais.
Nekhbet:
Vulture goddess, symbol of Lower Egypt on
pharaonic crown.
Nekhen:
An ancient city in Upper Egypt. A falcon deity identified with Horus.
Nephthys:
Greek name for Nebet-Het. Goddess of twilight, death and grief. Daughter of Nut and Geb, sister of Osiris, Horus the Elder and Isis, sister and wife of Set, mother of Anubis.
Nepra/Neper:
A god of the grain.
Neter: (Pronounced ‘neeter’ or ‘neecher’.) A divine principle or emanation. A god (Plural — neteru.)
Neterkhert:
(Pronounced ‘N etterkert’ or ‘NeecherkeiL’.)
‘Divine under place’. An inner spiritual or psychic realm.
Nu:
The father god of the Nun, primeval waters.
Nun:
(Pronounced ‘Noon’.) The primeval waters of chaos before Creation.
Nut/Nuit:
(Pronounced ‘Noot’ or ‘Noo-it’.) Goddess of the night sky, daughter of Shu and Tefnut, sister and wife of Geb, mother of Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys.
Ogdoad:
(Pronounced ‘Og-doh-ad’.) Group of eight primeval deities worshipped at Hermopolis.
On:
(Pronounced ‘Own.’) Heliopolis, cult centre of Ra.
Osiris:
(Pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable.) Greek name for Asar. God of the underworld and resurrection, identified with fertile earth, corn, Nile in flood, and constellation of Orion. Son of Nut and Geb, brother of Horus the Elder, Set and Nephthys, brother and husband of Isis, father of Horus the Younger and Anubis.
Parehaqa-Kheperu:
(Pronounced ‘Para-hacka-Kepperoo’.) A form of the sun god, spouse of Sekhmet-Bast-Ra.
Pashakasa:
(Pronounced ‘Pasha-kahsa’.) A child of Sekhmet Bast-Ra.
Pelican:
Mother goddess of the dead who prophesies a safe passage through the underworld.
Per-flu:
National shrine of the Delta under protection of Wadjet.
Per-wer:
National shrine of Upper Egypt.
Pert:
Winter, the growing season.
Ptah:
(Pronounced ‘Ta’.) Creator god of Memphis, architect of the universe, husband of Sekhmet. Ptah-Sek~rIPtah-Seker-Tem: (Pronounced ‘Ta-Seker-Tem’.) The Creator Ptah identified with gods of death and the setting sun.
Qebhsennuf:
(Pronounced ‘Kebsnoof’.) A Son of Horus, depicted with a falcon’s head. (May be regarded as god of elemental air.)
Ra:
The Creator, the sun god, depicted as a falcon or falcon-headed man.
Ra-Harmachis:
(Pronounced ‘Rah-Harm-ackis’, emphasis on ‘ack’.) Ra identified with Hor-em-Akhet, the Sphinx.
Ra-er-Neheh:
‘Ra the everlasting’.
Red Crown:
Deshret, the pharaonic crown of the North or Lower Egypt.
Releaser:
The ‘Retreated One’
—
Ra after his withdrawal from the earth. Horus as a star.
Renenutet:
Fertility goddess of the harvest, depicted with a serpent’s head.
Rostau:
The
‘place more noble than any place’, the plateau of Giza.
Sebek:
A crocodile god.
Sekhem:
Tower’, a title of Ra and other deities.
Sekhmet:
Destroyer form of Hathor as the Eye of Ra, the sun, depicted as a lioness-headed woman. Wife of Ptah.
Sekhmet-Bast-Ra:
A compound male-female deity, combining Sekhmet with her gentle cat form, Bast, and the sun god Ra. Perhaps a form of Mut.
Sekhtet/Semktet boat:
The sun god’s boat from midday to midnight.
Seksut:
(Pronounced ‘Seksoot’.) Meaning unknown.
Sektet:
The High Priest at Heliopolis.
Senut:
(Pronounced ‘Senoot’.) A sanctuary of the god Min in the ninth nome of Upper Egypt.
Set/Seth:
God of chaos, storms, destruction and the desert. Son of Nut and Geb, brother of Osiris, Horns the Elder and Isis, brother and husband of Nephthys. (Possibly father of Anubis).
Shen-a-sek:
A sea.
Shesmetet:
(Pronounced ‘Shes-meet-tet’.) lady of Malachite a title of Hathor.
Shu: God of the atmosphere. Son of Ra, brother and husband of Tefnut, father of Nut and Geb.
Sia:
God of the intellect and the perceptive mind.
Sistrum-player:
Priest of Hathor or her son.
Sokar/Seker:
A falcon god of the dead, identified with Osiris. His image was borne on a ceremonial boat on a sledge at his festival.
Sothis:
Greek name for Sopdet. The goddess Isis as the star Sirius.
Souls of Pe:
Falcon deities representing ancient idealized ancestors.
Stela:
Greek word for a slab or pillar (often a gravestone), usually bearing an inscription. (Plural
—
stelae.)
Suten-henen:
Capital of Heracleopolis, a nome (district) of Egypt.
Tamt:
The universal god.
Ta-tchesert:
The Sacred Land.
Ta-thenen/Tatenen:
Creator god in the form of a ram. Personification of the Primeval Mound.
Tefnut:
(Pronounced ‘Tefnoot’.) Goddess of moisture, depicted as a lioness-headed woman. Daughter of Ra, sister and wife of Shu, mother of Nut and Geb.
Tem/Temu:
God of the setting sun, depicted as a ram-headed man. Identified with Ra.
Tet:
A female symbol associated with Isis, in the form of a bow. Used as an amulet.
Thigh:
The constellation of the Great Bear.
Thinite Nome:
A district of Upper Egypt of which the capital was a cult centre of Osiris.
Thoth:
(Pronounced to rhyme with ‘both’.) Greek name for Tehuti/Djehuty. A moon god of wisdom, learning and magic, inventor of writing, keeper of records. The Mind of the Creator, depicted as an ibis-headed man.
That: (Pronounced ‘Dwat’.) The underworld, or region of the sky near the horizon.
Twin gods:
Horus and Ra, or Osiris and Ra.
Two
Ladies of Dep: The uraeus goddess Wadjet of Upper Egypt and the vulture goddess Nekhbet of Lower Egypt as emblems on the pharaonic crown.
Un-nefer:
‘The good being’, a title of Osiris.
Unti:
A god holding stars who walks before the solar bark.
Uraeus:
(Greek. Plural — uraei.)
The sacred serpent, a cobra.
Ureret/wereret crown:
The White Crown of the south or
Upper Egypt.
Utchat/Wedjat:
The ‘healthy eye’ or left eye of Horus, being the moon, which was stolen by Set (when the moon waned and restored by Thoth.
Utchatet:
The Sacred Eye.
Utent:
A region in the south of Egypt.
Wadjet:
Uraeus (cobra) goddess of Upper Egypt, appearing as
emblem on pharaonic crown.
Wag festival:
Held on the eighteenth day of the first month
—
5 August.
Was staff:
The animal-headed sceptre of power carried by
some deities.
Wedjat:
See ‘Utchat’.
Wepwawet:
A dog, jackal or wolf deity similar to Anubis.
Wereret:
See ‘ureret’.
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