This is a list of Egyptian Gods and goddesses

This is a list of Egyptian Gods and goddesses from Egyptian mythology. It is said that ancient Egyptians worshiped a number of gods (deities) at different times and in different places. It is important to under that ancient Egyptian “gods and goddesses” were mainly just REPRESENTATIONS of certain elements of nature, human attributes and other important aspects of their lifestyle that we indeed celebrated and ‘worshiped’. The importance of certain gods and goddesses change over time while others were nonexistent until in later eras of Kemet.

Name of position	Role	Notes
Amun	A creator god	Patron of the city of Thebes
Amunet	Wife of Amunn, one of the creation goddesses.
Anhur	An Egyptian sky god and God of war. His name meant “sky-bearer”.	Husb nd of Menhit
Anput	Goddess of the seventeenth Nome of Upper Egypt	Mother of Kebechet
Anubis	God of death, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies Jackal-headed god	Son of Set and Nephthys, given to Osiris by Nephthys to protect from his father
Anuket	Goddess of the river Nile
Apis	A live bull worshipped as a god at Memphis
Apophis	God of snakes and war and Chaos	He lives in the Duat. Also known as Apep. God of chaos sometimes seen as Apophis the chaos snake.
Aten	The disk of the sun	Originally an aspect of Ra
Babi	God of baboons
Bast	Cat goddess	Known to protect pregnant women and children. She is also involved in celebrations. The protector of Ra, his third eye.
Bes	Dwarf god of entertainment
Geb	God of the earth	Husband to Nut and father of Set, Osiris, Nephthys, Isis and Horus
Hapi	God of the Nile
Hathor	Goddess of love	“alter ego” of Sekhmet
Heket	Goddess of frogs
Horus (Heru)	God of war, sky, and falcons	He is a brother to Anubis and the son of Osiris (Auset) and Isis. In another story, he is the sibling of Osiris and Isis and son of Geb and Nut.
Isis (Auset)	Goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and protection	She is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother and sister of Horus. When Osiris died, she resurrected him with magic by reattaching his limbs.
Kebechet	Goddess of purification	Also known as the wandering goddess, or the lost child
Khepri	God of scarab beetles, sun, rebirth, and creation	Ra’s aspect in the morning
Khnum	Ram-headed god, and god of the Nile River.	Ra’s aspect in the evening
Khonsu	God of the moon	Known in legend Nut gambles with him to add 5 days on to the end of the year to give birth to Horus, Osiris, Set, Nephthys, and Isis. Also known as the demon days.
Kuk	Personification of darkness
Maahes	Egyptian lion-headed god of war	The son of the creator god Ptah, as well as the feline goddess Sekhmet
Ma’at	Goddess of justice, truth and of order	Also the daughter of Ra Command for Order
Mafdet	God of justice	Executioner of criminals, protector of the King’s chambers
Menhit	Minor lion goddess	Wife of Anhur
Nephthys	Funerary goddess	Consort of Seth, mother of Anubis
Nekhbet	Vulture goddess	Sister of Wadjet
Nut	Wife of Geb
Osiris (Ausar)	God of the underworld and the afterlife	Husband and brother of Isis, Brother and mortal enemy to Set, father to Horus and Anubis.
Pakhet	A goddess of motherhood and of war
Ptah	God of creation
Qebui	God of the North-wind
Qetesh	Goddess of nature, beauty, sacred ecstasy , and sexual pleasure	Adopted into ancient Egypt from Kadesh in what is now Syria.
Ra	God of the Sun and creation	Ra was king of the gods until Osiris took over his throne. He is also known as Amun-Ra and Akmun-Rah
Raet-Tawy	Female sun goddess of Upper and Lower Egypt	Female counterpart of Ra
Sekhmet	Goddess of lions, fire and vengeance	Alter form of Hathor
Seker	Falcon god	Primary god of the Memphis necropolis
Serqet	Goddess of scorpions, magic, medicine, and healing venomous stings and bites.
Seshat	Goddess of writing and measurement
Set	God of chaos/change, deserts, storms, foreigners	Also spelled Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh, Seth). Mortal enemy and brother to Osiris, Husband to Nephthys. He killed his brother Osiris because of jealousy. No one can really describe what he is. He is a human hybrid, half human mixed with an unknown creature. It is sometimes called the set animal
Shu	God of wind, air , and light	Consort of Tefnut, father of Geb and Nut Greatgrandfather to Anubis and Horus
Sobek	God of crocodiles	Rows Ra’s Sunboat through the Duat
Sopdu	A god of sky, the lord of the east. and is connected with Sah the goddess of Sopdet	Associated with the sun and with the planet Venus
Tawaret	Hippopotamus goddess Goddess of childbirth and fertility
Tefnut	Lion goddess of water and fertility	Consort of Shu, mother of Geb and Nut
Thoth (Tehudi)	Scribe God of Knowledge, the Moon, Measurement, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Djeru, Records, Thought, Intelligence, Meditation, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Hieroglyphics, Magic, Secrets, Scribes, and Writing	Also known as Djehuti
Wadjet	Goddess of protection	Sister of Nekhbet
Wadj-wer	Personifies the Mediterranean Sea and other lakes.