The Ennead and minor gods
The more important gods/desses (and the ones I especially like) have small images.
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| Aken |
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Symbol: Man in sailor's garb, in a papyrus boat.
Purpose: Captain of the Underworld ferryboat. He sleeps until awakened to take passengers across the river.
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| Aker |
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Symbol: Two lions, separated by the sun.
Purpose: Guardian of the corpse of Apep and the passage of the sun. Aker carries the sun-god?s boat on his back through the Underworld at night.
Power: Neutralizing venom. |
| Ammut |
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Symbol: Head of crocodile, body of lioness, and hind of hippopotamus.
Purpose: Eater of bad souls. If a person's soul outweighs the feather of Ma'at during judgement in the Hall of the Dead, Ammut devours it, condemning the soul to oblivion.
Power: Making souls cease to exist. |
| Anat |
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Symbol: Crown flanked with plumes; woman with battle axe and spear.
Purpose: Protector of Pharaoh in battle.
Power: Strengthening and protecting warriors, offensively. |
| Anhur |
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Symbol: Man with arms raised, crowned by four feathers; sometimes carrying a string with which he leads the sun.
Purpose: Warrior protector. He also was the one Ra sent to reconcile Hathor to himself.
Power: Protecting from enemies, defensively. |
| Anti |
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Symbol: Hawk-headed man on a crescent-shaped boat.
Purpose: Guardian of the sunrise. He helps the sun rise, beginning its journey on celestial waters in his boat.
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| Anubis |
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Symbol: Jackal-headed man; reclining black jackal.
Purpose: Patron of drugs and poison; Guardian of mummification; Patron of magic; Guide of the dead; Weigher of hearts in the Hall of Ma'at. Anubis also guards the souls from Ammut until his/her fate is decided.
Power: Foretelling destiny or death; assisting in magic and drugs. |
| Anuket |
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Symbol: Gazelle; woman wearing feathered headdress.
Purpose: Guardian of the Nile.
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| Apep |
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Symbol: Giant snake.
Purpose: Enemy of Ra. Every night he battled to swallow the boat of the sun god, but was always defeated eventually, and the sun was free to rise again. Isis defeated him for good by cutting him into pieces and giving the pieces to Aker to guard.
Power: Evil strength. |
| Atum |
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Symbol: Pharaoh wearing pshkhent and carrying the crux ansata; male
cat.
Purpose: Evening aspect of Ra, the sun god.
Power: Omnipotent. |
| Aten |
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Symbol: Solar disk with rays ending in hands offering ankhs, or life.
Purpose: Creator; only true god.
Power: Omnipotent. |
| Babi |
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Symbol: Baboon.
Purpose: 'Phallus of heaven.' A fertility god, his phallus is reputed in varying myths to be the bolt on the doors of heaven, the mast of the ferryboat of the underworld, and important for a man to identify his own phallus with in order to secure potency in the Afterlife.
Power: Warding off snakes and storms; fertility. |
| Ba Neb Tetet |
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Symbol: Ram.
Purpose: Mediator of the gods.
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| Bastet |
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Symbol: Cat; cat-headed woman carrying a sistrum.
Purpose: Guardian of the home, love, sex, fertility, and the domestic cat; Protector of Pharaoh.
Power: Fertility; love; protection from enemies. |
| Benu |
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Symbol: Heron with two long head plumes.
Purpose: Visible aspect of Ra; symbol of rebirth.
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| Bes |
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Symbol: Ugly dwarf with a large head and a long tail, wearing a plumed crown and the pantherskin of a priest, carrying weapons and clanging instruments.
Purpose: Guardian against evil spirits; Guardian of childbirth and the family; Patron of entertainment.
Power: Protection from evil spirits; childbirth; fun. |
| Geb |
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Symbol: Goose; green ithyphallic man, sometimes with a goose on his head.
Purpose: Earth god. His laughter causes earthquakes, he controls the growth of vegetation. Some myths state that he ruled earth prior to Osiris' reign.
Power: Growth of vegetation; potency. |
| Hathor |
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Symbol: Cow; cow wearing stars; cow-headed woman; broad-faced, cow-eared woman wearing on her head cow horns which surround a solar disk and two feathers; papyrus reed; snake; sistrum.
Purpose: Mother of pharaohs -- Hathor is said to nurse the infant pharaohs, who draw both nourishment and divinity from her milk and become gods; Patron of music, dance, and merriment; Guardian of women and lovers.
Power: Motherhood; joy; womanhood; dance; music. |
| Heket |
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Symbol: Frog; frog-headed woman.
Purpose: Midwife of the sun during its daily birth.
Power: Midwifery; fertility. |
| Horus |
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Symbol: Falcon; Falcon-headed man; winged sun disk; falcon-headed lion.
Purpose: God of light; keeper of wisdom.
Power: Strength; victory in battle; wisdom. |
| Imhotep |
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Symbol: Seated man, clothed as a priest, with a papyrus roll open across his knees.
Purpose: God of knowledge and healing. Imhotep was an architect and a healer, so renowned that he was deified after his death. As son of Ptah, he had power to give children.
Power: Learning; healing; fertility. |
| Ishtar |
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Symbol: Eight-pointed star; voluptuous woman with quiver, bow, and sword; lioness.
Purpose: Warrior goddess; Patron of sexuality; Patron of healing.
Power: Sexuality; power in battle; healing. |
| Isis |
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Symbol: Woman crowned by a throne or vulture; kite; winged woman.
Purpose: Bringer of the Inundation; goddess of funeral rites; Patron of magic; Giver of the secrets of medicine; institutor of marriage.
Power: Magic; medicine; love; wind. |
| Khepri |
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Symbol: Scarab; man with a scarab for a head.
Purpose: Morning aspect of Ra, the sun god.
Power: Omnipotent. |
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