1. EgyptGods & Goddess

2. The ancient Egyptians believed
in many different gods and
goddesses. Each one with their
own role to play in maintaining
peace and harmony
across the land.

3. Ra
• King of the Gods
• Sun god
• Falcon head with a sun on top.
• He was the most important god of
the ancient Egyptians.
• The ancient Egyptians believed
that Ra was swallowed every night
by the sky goddess Nut, and was
reborn every morning.
• He constantly had to fight
monsters
(Sebau, Nak, and Apep)
• The phoenix is one of his symbols

4. Osiris
• God of the earth and
vegetation
• 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.

5. Horus
• Falcon headed
• Son of Isis and Osiris
• He became divine protector and god of
every pharaoh.
• He was closely linked with the pharaohs
in whose hands the administration of
the whole land of Egypt was placed.
• In a battle a between Horus and his
uncle Seth, Horus’s eye was torn out,
shredded and thrown in the sea. Thoth
retrieved and fixed the eye. He then
gave the healed eye to his dead father.
He then tried to heal his father with the
eye. It was a symbol of healing and
power.

6. Seth
• God of evil, the
desert, storms, and
chaos
• Seth was the god of
chaos.
• Seth represented
everything that
threatened harmony in
Egypt.
• In Egyptian times Seth
murdered his
brother, Osiris, and then
scattered the pieces all
over the land.
• He appeared with a
forked tail with cloven
hooves with large
pricked ears, a snout
and a monstrous head.
Although he sometimes
took the shape of
frightening animals.

7. Nephthy
s
• Wife of Seth
• 'Lady of the Mansion
• Woman with headdress
showing her name
in hieroglyphics
• Protective goddess of
the dead.
• Sister of Isis and Osiris,
and the sister/wife of
Seth. Nephthys was
also the mother of
Anubis.
• She is often shown on
coffins, or in funerary
scenes.

8. 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)
• God of embalming
• Works with Osiris in the
underworld

9. Isis
• Shown as a a woman wearing
a vulture head-dress and the
solar disk between a pair of
horns
• Isis was a protective goddess.
She used powerful magic
spells to help people in need.
Isis was the wife of Osiris and
the mother of Horus.
• 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
• Since each pharaoh was
considered the 'living
Horus', Isis was very
important.

10. Thoth
• Moon god
• Head of an ibis
• Scribe (records the
weight of the hearts in
the underworld)
• Invented writing
• god of writing and
knowledge.
• The ancient Egyptians
believed that Thoth
gave them the gift of
hieroglyphic writing.
Thoth was also
connected with the
moon.

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Sekhmet
• Lion headed
• Goddess of war
• Breathes fire
against her
enemies
• Delivers
punishment to
the gods

16. Some gods and goddesses took
part in creation, some brought
the flood every year, some
offered protection, and some
took care of people after they
died. Others were either local
gods who represented towns, or
minor gods who represented
plants or animals.

17. The ancient Egyptians
believed that it was
important to recognize and
worship these gods and
goddesses so that life
continued smoothly.

18. • McCall Henrietta, Gods & Goddesses in the Daily
Life of the Ancient Egyptians, 2002, Hodder
Wyland.
• Ashworth Leon, Gods and Goddesses of Ancient
Egypt, 2006, Evans publishing Group.
• ww.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/
• www.cyark.org/AncientEgyptian
• www.ancientegypt.uk.co