Hathor (Egyptian: Het-Hert) – One of the most important goddesses, linked with the sky, the sun, sexuality and motherhood, music and dance, foreign lands and goods, and the afterlife.Hapi – Personification of the Nile flood.Geb – An earth god and member of the Ennead.Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a heron.Bat – Cow goddess from early in Egyptian history, eventually absorbed by Hathor.Bastet – Goddess represented as a cat or lioness, patroness of the city of Bubastis, linked with protection from evil.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 Atenism in the reign of Akhenaten.Anuket – A feathered headdress wearing goddess of Egypt's southern frontier regions, particularly the lower cataracts of the Nile.
Anubis/ Anput – The god/goddess of embalming and protector of the dead.Amunet – Female counterpart of Amun and a member of the Ogdoad.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 earth and the horizon.Many Egyptian texts mention deities' names without indicating their character or role, while other texts refer to specific deities without even stating their name, so a complete list of them is difficult to assemble. These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1,500 of them are known by name. Many of them ruled over natural and social phenomena, as well as abstract concepts. The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus in the Tomb of Horemheb ( KV57) in the Valley of the KingsĪncient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshipped for millennia.
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