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The 30 Most Famous Ancient Egyptian Gods


Gods in ancient Egypt were worshiped a lot and they had many gods each associated with some specific element or quality. Below are mentioned 30 of the most famous gods of Egypt in no particular order,

  • Amun who was the King of the Egyptian gods was the greatest of the sun gods. Depictions of Amun represent him as a man with a hawk’s head with a bull’s tail hanging from his tunic.
  • God of death, Anubis is represented as either a man with a jackal’s head or as a jackal. He presided over funerals and guided the souls of the dead He also oversaw the ceremony where the gods weighed a human heart.
  • Aten, the sun god had no human shape and was illustrated as a sun disc having hands at the end of each ray.
  • Atum who is considered the oldest of the creation gods seems to have existed before anything else.
  • Bast represented the cat goddess who is represented either as a woman having a cat head or as a cat, people in ancient Egypt mummified cats in her honor.
  • Bes, the patron of art, childbirth and music was a war god. People placed Bes’ image above their headrests to ward off evil spirits.
  • Geb - God of the Earth represented the fertility of the earth.
  • Hapy, god of the Nile was considered to have created everything.
  • Hathor, the cow goddess was also a mother goddess who was represented as a cow or a woman with a cow’s head or horns.
  • Horus - The Egyptian Falcon God, was among the five Osisrains god was a man with a hawk’s head.
  • Isis - The Goddess of Fertility was also the goddess of magic, and a healing goddess.
  • Khepri, was a self created god and was the rising sun.




  • Khnum, a creator-god and the god of fertility.

    • Ma'at - The Goddess of Truth and Justice personified moral and physical law.
    • Nephthys the personification of darkness, death and decay was one of the Osirian gods.
    • Nun was the celestial waters who had no temples dedicated to him.
    • Nut - Goddess of the Sky was personified as the sky and she was the consort of Geb and also considered the mother of the Osirain gods.
    • Osiris - God of the Underworld was the god of the dead and resurrection.
    • Ptah was the god of artists and artisans and a craft-god.
    • Ra was a sun god and myths claimed that he created everything.
    • Ra Horakhty was a composite of the gods Horus and Ra.
    • Sekhmet was a lion goddess, the goddess of war and battle.
    • Seshat was the goddess of libraries and literature and the Egyptians associated her with Thoth.
    • Seth - God of Chaos was the god of darkness and evil and was one of the Osirian gods.
    • Shu was the god of air.
    • Sobek - The Crocodile God of Strength.
    • Tawaret was the hippopotamus goddess and the patroness of motherhood and childbirth.
    • Tefnut was the goddess of moisture and the consort of Shu.
    • Thoth was a moon god and the patron of the arts, hieroglyphics, science, speech and wisdom.
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