Amunet – Female counterpart of Amun and a member of the Ogdoad. Wadj-wer – Personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile Delta. Thoth – A moon god, and a god of writing and scribes, and patron deity of Hermopolis. Sopdu – A god of the sky and of Egypt's eastern border regions. Sobek – Crocodile god, worshipped in the Faiyum and at Kom Ombo. Shu – Embodiment of wind or air, a member of the Ennead. Mythological murderer of Osiris and enemy of Horus, but also a supporter of the king. Set – An ambivalent god, characterized by violence, chaos, and strength, connected with the desert. Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis. Osiris – god of death and resurrection who rules the underworld and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls. Nemty – Falcon god, worshipped in Middle Egypt, who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods. Nefertum – God of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time. Montu – A god of war and the sun, worshipped at Thebes. Khonsu – A moon god, son of Amun and Mut. Khnum ( Khnemu) – A ram god, the patron deity of Elephantine, who was said to control the Nile flood and give life to gods and humans. Khepri – A solar creator god, often treated as the morning form of Ra and represented by a scarab beetle. Often said to be the son of Osiris and Isis. Horus – A major god, usually shown as a falcon or as a human child, linked with the sky, the sun, kingship, protection, and healing. Hapi – Personification of the Nile flood. Geb – An earth god and member of the Ennead. Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a bird. Atum – A creator god and solar deity, first god of the Ennead. Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten. Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom. Aker – A god of the earth and the east and west horizons of the Underworld.
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