EGYPTIAN GODS I

Nun • In Heliopolis, Nun is the personification of the primordial water abyss. Its qualities were infinity, darkness and turbulence of tempestuous waters. It personified Chaos, and extended to the Greek cosmic sense it personified the ocean. Myth dictates that Nun continued to exist in subterraneous waters and was the origin of the Nile. It is a “point of departure” God for all cosmogonies; the heliopolitan cosmogony believed that Atum lied inert in Nun. Ra also rose from Nun on the first day of creation and then all life as well. It is represented sometimes as holding the divine solar vessel in the air.

Shu: Air

Tefnut: Space

Geb: Earth

Nut: Sky

Greenfield Papyrus XXI Dynasty: Shu and two divinities pick up Nut above Geb

Atum

Originally the god of Earth. He is “He who exists for himself”. Primordial god and creator according to Helipolitan doctrine. He substituted the Imy-Uaf serpent to generate the creation and will return in the form of a serpent in the end of times.

RaGod which represents the sun at mid-day in its maximum splendor. In the first day it was the most important figure in the Under World. It was said that by night it travelled in the form of Auf-Ra the hiding sun.

Amón Ra

The SunLord of all

doorsWife: Mut

Son: Khonsu

Hathor

Carries the Ankh Key

“The house of Horus”

The Cosmic

Cow who gestates

life.

Isis, Osiris, Horus

OsirisFather of Horus and

husband of Isis.Direct ancestor of royalty.

Spirit of vegetation and before all god of

resurrection.

Represents everything which is born again, but

above all the Nile.Regeneration and fertility.

God of the flood that brings victory to the black earth.

IsisHer name in Egyptian is Ast. She was primitively considered a goddess-sky original from Behbet-el Hagar, in the Delta. She carried a throne (ast) over her head and was the personification of the throne. Queen of gods, recuperated and embalmed of Osiris body. Protector of the child Horus until he was able to battle for his patrimony. Her dwelling in the sky was the star Sothis (Syrus) in the Orion constellation (associated with Osiris). She was also known as Isis-Sothis. She was opposite to Neftis her dark sister. She was goddess of maternity and birth.

Isis-hathor in a tomb at Horemheb 1319-1292

Horusresuscitator of Osiris. Symbol

of he who battles against

his own

Horus Temple Edfu with a double crown. Ptolemaic age

Horus Ptolemaic child (Hippocrates)

NeftisGoddess of Dióspolis Parva. Represents darkness and everything related to it. Neftis represents the invisible aspect, the night and life as a passage to another life. She is the opposite of Isis and yet they are associated in an inseparable way. They usually act in conjunction in everything that has to do with the well-being of someone who has died. They assist the dead in their passage ‘beyond’ with chants.

NeithGoddess called Tehenut, “the Libyan". Cult to

Neith is pre-dynastic.Goddess of war and hunting but also goddess

of wisdom.During pre-dynastic period she had the form of

a scarab and later her attributes were represented wit an arc and two crossed arrows over a shield. She also has been represented with an owl in her right hand and spear in the

left hand.

SelketAncient goddess of

scorpions and magic. She symbolized the

embracing heat of the sun. Her role was

fundamentally benefic and she protected

from venomous serpent or scorpion bites. Her priests

were medicine men and magicians

dedicated to curing those bitten by

poisonous animals.