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Principal Deities of Ancient Egypt
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Undergraduate 1
02/07/2010

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Amon
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god of Thebes (sometimes a ram), later Amon-Re
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Anubis
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god of the dead and embalmers (depticted as a jackal)
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Aten (or Aton)
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the sun-disk (worshipped by Akhenaton in the New Kingdom)
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Atum
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early Old Kingdom creator god and sun god; later, Amon, Re, and Amon-Re
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Bes
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protector of women in childbirth (a leonine dwarf)
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Geb
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the earth, father of Osiris
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Hapy
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god of the Nile and fertiltiy (a man with heavy breasts)
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Hathor
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protector of the palace, goddess of the sky (a horned cow)
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Horus
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sky god and god of the kingship (depicted as a falcon), son of Isis and Osiris
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Isis
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mother goddess, guardian of coffins (in human guise), sister and wife of Osiris
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Khepre
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rising sun, a form of Re (depicted as a scarab beetle)
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Maat
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goddess of truth and order (depicted as a feather, or as a woman with a feather-head)
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Mut
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Amon's wife (sometimes a vulture)
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Nun
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the primeval ocean
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Nut
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goddess of the sky, mother of Osiris
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Osiris
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god of the Underworld, identical with the deceased king (depicted as the king's mummy)
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Ptah
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crafts god (depicted as a male mummy)
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Re (or Ra)
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sun god and judge, sometimes shown as a falcon, sometimes in combination with Amon as Amon-Re, or Amon-Ra; cult center at Heliopolis (the city of the sun)
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Set
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god of disorder and violence, brother of Osiris
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Sobek
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crocodile god of the Nile
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Thoth
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scribal god and the inventor of writing (depicted as an ibis or a baboon)
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