Egyptian Gods Goddess for students pres.ppt

Ra / Re / Amen-Ra
 King of the Gods
 Sun god
 Falcon head with a sun on top.
 Sometimes seen as the creator of men
(Egyptians called themselves "the cattle of Ra”)
 Since heaven and the underworld have water,
Ra uses a boat (Madjet (“strong”) while rising
and Semektet ("becoming weak") when setting.
He often has help from other gods to
successfully navigate his boat.
 He constantly had to fight monsters
(Sebau, Nak, and Apep)
 The phoenix is one of his symbols

Osiris
 God of the earth and vegetation
 Symbolized the yearly drought and
flooding of the Nile.
 Gave Egypt civilization.
 Married his sister, Isis
 Osiris rules Egypt and he leaves Isis in
charge when he is gone
 Set and 72 conspirators kill him by
chopping him up into pieces
 Isis found almost all the pieces and put
him back together (making the missing
part out of clay)
 King of the afterlife
 Usually shown as a bearded,
mummified human with green skin and
wearing the atef crown. His hands
come out from the mummy wrappings
and hold the flail and crook.

Horus
 Falcon headed
 The Pharaoh was supposed to be his
earthly embodiment.
 Son of Osiris (after his resurrection)
 Set is always trying to hurt him
 Stunted from his waist down
 In art, he is often shown standing on
crocodiles
 His sons are born from Isis. Each take
care of the organs during the
mummification process
 Duamutef (stomach)
 Imsety (liver)
 Hapi (lungs)
 Qebehsenuef (intestines)

Nephthys
 Wife of Seth
 Seduced her brother Osiris
(possibly getting him drunk
or by looking like Isis) to get
pregnant with Anubis
 BFFF Isis

Isis
 Isis was the sister/wife of Osiris
 Shown as a a woman wearing a
vulture head-dress and the solar
disk between a pair of horns
 Isis suckles the pharohs
 May be one of the judges of the
dead
 Has great magical powers
 Created the cobra and uses the
cobra bite to make Ra reveal to
her his secret name
 The purest example of the loving
wife and mother

Set
 God of evil, the desert, storms,
and chaos
 A devil figure
 Antelopes are sacred to him
 Hates Osiris (jealous)
 Kills Osiris and becomes king
before he is killed by Horus
 Part pig and part donkey

Hathor
 Usually depicted as a cow or as a
beautiful woman wearing a
horned headdress
 She is both wife/ daughter of Ra
 Also married Horus
 Suckled Horus when he was
young and took care of him after
Set blinded him
 Her milk is food of the gods
 She offers food and drink to the
dead
 Women aspire to be her

Anubis
 Son of Nephthys and either
Set or Ra – adopted servant
of Isis
 Head of a jackal
 Guides the dead to the
underworld and weighs their
heart (bad deeds make your
heart weigh more)
 Works with Osiris in the
underworld
 Mummification god

Ammut
 “Eater of the Dead”
 She stands by the scales of the hearts
and eats the hearts of the wicked (a final
death)
 Head of a crocodile, body of a leopard,
hind legs of a hippo (apparently wicked
hearts are fattening – who knew?)

Aten
 The actual disk of the
sun
 His hands are the sun’s
rays
 May be the creator of
men

Nut
 The Sky
 She and her brother, Geb (the earth), could
not stop “holding hands” so now their father
(Shu – air) stands between them holding them
apart.

Thoth
 Moon god
 Head of an ibis
 Scribe (records the weight of the hearts
in the underworld)
 Invented writing
 From the Book of the Dead:
“Hear the word of the very truth. I have judged
the heart of the deceased, and his soul stands
witness for him. His deeds are righteous in the
great balance and no sin has been found in
him.”

Bast
 Cat-headed
 Goddess of love, sex, and
childbirth
 Cats are sacred (many cats
were mummified in her
honor

Bes
 Popular, household god
 Dwarf
 Frightens evil spirits away
 Hangs out with Taweret, a
goddess of childbirth (she is
scary looking)
 Roman soldiers wore amulets
with his likeness for protection

Hapy
 God of the Nile floods
 Keeps the land and river fertile
 He has long hair, large breasts,
and a protruding stomach (all
symbols of fertility) and also a
beard and is blue
 In some areas, he was
worshipped over Ra

Neith
 A mother goddess
 Invented childbirth
 Created gods, humans, and
animals
 Warrior goddess
 Once she spit into the Nile and
this spit turned into Apep, a
serpent who lives in the
underworld and tries to eat Ra
each night

Sekhmet
 Lion headed
 Wife of Ptah (an early
creator god)
 Breathes fire against
her enemies
 Delivers punishment to
the gods

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