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God Bes

God BesGod Bes was a house god (a deity worshiped primarily at home, as defended to temple ceremonies) connected to childbirth who was first revered in Egypt during the New Kingdom. Egyptologists...

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God Ash

God AshGod Ash was God of the western Desert of Egypt accepting  the  breeding  oases,  and of Tehenu or  Libya,  first  old  on sealings from the Early Dynastic Period. Although  his  dominion  is  in...

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God Shezmu

The grape pressing, closely linked to the cult of Shesmu, on the walls of Nakht's tombGod Shezmu was the Violent  god of wine and unguent-oil promotes. Shezmu is a divinity with a double personality...

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God Mehen

Mehen keeping the bark of RaGod Mehen was a coiled serpent-deity preservative the boat in which the sun-deity  Ra travels over the Hades. His coils envelope the kiosk on the decorate of the boat. The...

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God Nun

God NunGod Nun personating  the previous  waters  out  of  which  issued the creator god. Nun  is  called  father  of  the  gods but this  emphasizes  only  his  unrivalled antiquity  as  an  element...

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God Geb

God GebGod Geb was one of the key gods of the Ennead, a family of nine deities revered in the city of Heliopolis start in the Early Dynastic Period. According to the Creation myth of this city, Geb's...

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God Sia

God Sia, one of ancient Egyptian gods, was the deification of percept in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogeny and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite...

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God Tatenen

God TatenenGod Tatenen an ancient earth deity been the primeval pile, Tenen was the symbol for the rich Nile silt that emerged when the river receded after the flood. His name means illustrious Earth....

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Osiris Ceremonies

Osiris  ceremonies These were the sacred celebrations held  passim Egypt  to  honor  the  God Osiris,  peculiarly in the cult center of Abydos. The seasonal cycles of life were mirrored in these...

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Temple of Osiris at Abydos

The temple of Osiris at AbydosTemple of Osiris was the leading shrine of Osiris in Abydos, now  visited  Kom el-Sultan  by  the  Egyptians. There were some sites of worship dedicated to Osiris in the...

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Amun a Fertility God

Amun a God of FertilityAfterwards, when Egypt captured Kush, they discovered the chief deity of the Kushites as Amun. This Kush deity was depicted as ram-headed, more specifically a woolly ram with...

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Temples of Amun

Temples of Amun paid to Amun were constructed throughout Egypt, and Ramses II built or rebuilt different of them. Three of these temples are those at Deir el-Medina, Luxor and Karnak:1- Deir el-Medina...

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Worship of Amun

Worship of Amun was widespread and the pharaohs presented the cult with land a part of the booty from conquering. One of the essential situations in the cult was the gods wife of Amun and the queen or...

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Amun in Greece Period

Zeus (picture of Amun in Greece Period)Amun taken a temple and a statue, the talent of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, and  opposite  at  Sparta,  the  indweller  of  which,  as Pausanias says,...

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Amun King of the Gods

Amun king of the gods put Amenhetep III to the throneIn the New Kingdom the divinity of Amun was  enhanced  by  reading  him  as  a mysterious  demonstration  of  the  ancient sun-god  of  Heliopolis....

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Amun as a Creator

The gods  temple  Ipet-Sut  is  predicted  by Hatshepsut on her obelisk hill of the start,  indicating  that  it  was  the set  where  Amun  took  the  cosmos into existence. Hymns from the late New...

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God Apis

God ApisGod Apis was the greek name for the worthy bull of Memphis. Egyptian Hapi. The bull was the living shape of the god Ptah and after death was placed  with Osiris.  He  was  established  by...

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God Heryshaf

God HeryshafGod Heryshaf meaning  ("He who is on his lake") In Egyptian mythology. It is recorded in Greek as "Harsaphes" was an ancient ram-god whose cult was middle in Herakleopolis Magna (now...

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God Kherty

God Kherty (or Cherti meaning "Lower one") was an ancient Egyptian earth deity and a god of the Scheol who sailed the boat which carried the decased on their past journey. He was linked with Aken, and...

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God Wadj-wer

God Wadj-wer is an Egyptian fertility rate god whose name agency the "Great Green". Sometimes shown in androgynous form, he is a personification of the Mediterranean Sea or of the leading lakes of the...

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