List of Egyptian deities

This is a list of Egyptian Gods and goddesses from Egyptian mythology. The old Egyptians worshipped a few gods at different times and in different places. Some gods changed in importance over time or were nonexistent until later eras.
## Important deities
### Gods
* **Aker** – A god of Earth and the horizon
* **Amun** – A creator god, main god of the city of Thebes, and the main deity in ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom
* **Anhur** – A god of war and hunting
* **Anubis** – The god of funerals, embalming and protector of the dead
* **Aten** – Sun disk god who became the focus of the Atenist religion when Akhenaten was in charge, was also the literal Sun disk
* **Atum** – A creator god and sun god, first god of the Ennead
* **Bennu** – A sun and creator god, looked like a Heron
* **Geb** – An earth god and member of the Ennead
* **Heru-ur** – A older version of Horus
* **Horus** – A major god, usually shown as a Falcon or as a human child, connected with the sky, the Sun, kings, protection, and healing; often said to be the son of Osiris and Isis
* **Khepri** – A sun creator god, often treated as the morning version of Ra and looked like a scarab beetle
* **Khnum** – A Ram god, the main god of Elephantine, who was said to control the Nile flood and give life to gods and humans
* **Khonsu** – A Moon god, son of Amun and Mut
* **Maahes** – A Lion god, son of Bastet
* **Nefertem** – A god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time Son of Ptah and Sekhmet
* **Nemty** – Falcon god, worshiped in Middle Egypt, who appears in myth as a ferryman for better gods
* **Neper** – A god of Grain
* **Osiris** – A god of death and coming back to life who rules Duat and grows plants, the sun god, and dead souls
* **Ptah** – A creator god and god of craftsmen, the main god of Memphis
* **Set** – A confusing god who was violent, chaotic, and strong, from within the desert. Mythological killer of Osiris and enemy of Horus, but also a supporter of the king
* **Shu** – God of wind or air, a member of the Ennead
* **Sobek** – A Crocodile god, worshiped in the Faiyum and at Kom Ombo
* **Sopdu** – A god of the sky and of Egypt's eastern border regions
* **Thoth** – A Moon god, and a god of writing and scribes, and main god of Hermopolis

### Goddesses
* **Amunet** – Woman version of Amun and a member of the Ogdoad
* **Bat** – A Cow goddess from early in Egyptian history, eventually became the same as Hathor
* **Hathor** – One of the most important goddesses, conected with the sky, the Sun, sexuality and motherhood, music and dance, foreign lands and goods, and the afterlife. One of many versions of the Eye of Ra, she is often looks like a Cow
* **Heqet** – A Frog goddess said to protect women in childbirth
* **Hesat** – A motherly Cow goddess
* **Maat** – A goddess who meant truth, justice, and order
* **Menhit** – A sun Lioness goddess who was the brow of Ra
* **Neith** – A creator and hunter goddess, main goddess of the city of Sais in Lower Egypt
* **Nekhbet** – A Vulture goddess, the main goddess of Upper Egypt
* **Nephthys** – A member of the Ennead, the wife of Set, who was sad about Osiris with Isis
* **Nepit** – A goddess of Grain, Woman version of Neper
* **Nut** – A sky goddess, a member of the Ennead
* **Pakhet** – A Lioness goddess mainly worshiped in around Beni Hasan
* **Renenutet** – An plant goddess
* **Satis** – A goddess of Egypt's southern frontier regions
* **Tefnut** – A Lioness goddess of wetness and a member of the Ennead
* **Wadjet** – A Cobra goddess, the main goddess of Lower Egypt
* **Wosret** – A goddess of Thebes

### Other genders
* **Hapi** – God of the Nile flood
* **Heh and Hauhet** – The god and goddess of infinity and members of the Ogdoad
* **Kek and Kauket** – The god and goddess of Chaos and Darkness, as well as being the darkness
* **Nu and Naunet** – The god and goddess of the formless, watery Chaos from which the world came out of at creation and members of the Ogdoad
* **Ra** – The most important Egyptian sun god, involved in creation and the afterlife Mythological king of the gods, dad of every Egyptian king, and the main god of Heliopolis
* **Tatenen** – God of the first mound of earth to emerge from chaos in ancient Egyptian creation myths

## Less important deities
### Gods
* **Āa** – A creator god, member of the Shebtiu
* **Aani** – A protector Ape headed god
* **Aati** – One of the Assessors of Maat
* **Abu** – An early Egyptian god of Light that was likely worshiped in the city of Elephantine
* **Aby** – A god in Duat
* **Akhty** – A horizon god who looked like a ibis
* **Am-heh** – A dangerous Duat god
* **Amenhotep I** – The second king of the Eighteenth Dynasty, as a god
* **Amenhotep, son of Hapu** – A scribe and architect in the court of Amenhotep III, later made a god for his wisdom
* **Ani** – A god of festivals
* **Apedemak** – A warlike Lion god from Nubia who was in some Egyptian-built temples in Lower Nubia
* **Apep** – A Snake god who was evil and was said to fight Ra in Duat every night
* **Apesh** – An evil Turtle god
* **Aqen** – A god in Duat
* **Arensnuphis** – A Nubian god who appears in Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia in the Greco-Roman era
* **Ash** – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egyptt
* **Astennu** – A Baboon god who went with Thoth
* **Ba** – A god of fertility
* **Ba-Ra** – A god
* **Babi** – A Baboon god who was sexual and aggressive
* **Banebdjedet** – A Ram god, main god of the city of Mendes
* **Ba-Pef** – A little-known Duat god; Ram-headed god of the eighth hour
* **Bata** – A Bull god, the brother of Anubis 
* **Bes** – A god, who was a dwarf, very important in protecting children and women in childbirth
* **Buchis** – A live Bull god worshiped around Thebes and a version of Montu
* **Dedun** – A Nubian god, said to give the Egyptians incense and other stuff that came from Nubia
* **Denwen** – A Snake and dragon god
* **Djedefhor** – Son of King Khufu who was made a god after death because he wrote a book though to be the work of a god
* **Dionysus-Osiris** – A life-death-rebirth god
* **Duamutef** – A son of Horus
* **Duau** – A Moon god
* **Fa** – A god of destiny
* **Gengen-Wer** – A heavenly Goose god who guarded the heavenly egg containing the life force
* **Hapy-Wet** – God of the Nile in heaven
* **Harsomtus** – A child god of Edfu
* **Hemen** – A Falcon god
* **Heneb** – A god of Grain
* **Hermanubis** – A Greco-Egyptian god who was a merge from Hermes and Anubis
* **Hermes Trismegistus** – A Greco-Egyptian god who was a merge from Hermes and Thoth
* **Heru-Khu** – A god in the fifth land of Duat
* **Hez-Ur** – A little known Baboon god
* **Hraf-haf** – A ferryman for the dead and one of the Assessors of Maat
* **Hutchai** – The god of the west wind
* **Ihy** – A child god born to Horus and Hathor, representing the music and joy produced by the sistrum
* **Imhotep** – Architect and Vizier to Djoser, eventually made a healer god
* **Imsety** – A son of Horus
* **Jupiter Ammon** – A Roman influenced god who was merged from Jupiter and Amun worshiped at the Siwa Oasis in Egyptt
* **Khenti-Amentiu** – A graveyard god
* **Khenti-kheti** – Crocodile or Falcon god worshiped at Athribis
* **Khesfu** – A god who carries a spear in the tenth land of Duat 
* **Kothar-wa-Khasis** – A Ugaritic god rarely mentioned in egyptian books
* **Mandulis** – A Lower Nubian Sun god who appeared in some Egyptian temples
* **Mau** – A Cat god
* **Mehen** – A Snake god who protects the barque of Ra as it travels through Duat
* **Min** – A god of men, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them
* **Mnevis** – A live Bull god worshiped at Heliopolis as a version of Ra
* **Nefer Hor** – A son of Thoth
* **Nehebkau** – A protective Snake god
* **Nekheny** – A predynastic Falcon god
* **Rekhyt** – A Sun god who looked like a Lapwing
* **Rem** – Fish god and Ra's tears
* **Reshep** – A Syrian war god adopted into Ancient Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom, depicted with beard and the crown of Upper Egypt
* **Sah** – The constellation Orion
* **Sebiumeker** – Guardian god of sex and fertility, he was a major god in Meroe, Kush
* **Seker** – God of the Memphite Necropolis and of the afterlife in general
* **Sekhemus** – A god in the fourth hour of Duat
* **Seta-Ta** – A mummified god in the fourth land of Duat
* **Shehbui** – God of the south wind
* **Shepsy** – Local sun god in Hermopolis
* **Shezmu** – A god of wine, Blood, and oil presses who also kills bad souls
* **Sia** – God of perception
* **Teka-her** – A Snake god in the fourth hour of Duat
* **Tenem** – A creator god, husband of Tenemu
* **Tutu** – A god from the Greco-Roman era
* **Wai** – A creator god, member of the Shebtiu
* **Weneg** – A plant god and son of Ra who maintains cosmic order
* **Yam** – A Syrian god of the sea who appears in some Ancient Egyptian books

### Goddesses
* **Abaset** – A hedgehog goddess
* **Ahmose-Nefertari** – The mom of Amenhotep I, as a goddess
* **Amathaunta** – An ocean goddess
* **Ammit** – Goddess who ate bad souls
* **Amn** – A goddess who welcomed souls of the dead in Duat
* **Anet** – A fish goddess that swam in front of Ra’s sun barge
* **Anhefta** – A protective spirit who guards one end of the ninth land of Duat
* **Astarte** – A warrior goddess from Syria and Canaan who entered ancient Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom
* **Ay** – A goddess who was the raging aspect of the returning goddess
* '''Ba'alat Gebal** – A Canaanite goddess, main god of the city of Byblos, adopted into ancient Egyptian religion
* **Beset** – Guardian of women in childbirth and babies who appeared during the Middle Kingdom, the Woman counterpart and possibly the mom of Bes
* **Besna** – Goddess of home security
* **Hedetet** – A minor scorpion goddess
* **Heptet** – A knife holding goddess of death
* **Heret-Kau** – A protector goddess who protected the souls of the dead in the afterlife
* **Iat** – A goddess of milk and nursing
* **Ipy** – A mom goddess depicted as a Hippo
* **Iunit** – A wife of Montu
* **Iusaaset** – A Woman version of Atum; a Sun disk wearing goddess worshiped at Heliopolis
* **Iw** – A creation goddess
* **Khensit** – A Goddess from the twentieth nome of Lower Egypt
* **Khereduankh** – Mom of Imhotep
* **Mafdet** – A predatory goddess said to destroy dangerous creatures
* **Matit** – A funerary Cat goddess who had a cult center at Thinis
* **Mehet-Weret** – A celestial Cow goddess
* **Mehit** – A warrior Lioness goddess originally from Nubia worshiped at Abydos, wife of Anhur
* **Meret** – The goddess of music who established hevenly order
* **Nebethetepet** – A Woman version of Atum
* **Nebt-Shefshefet** – A goddess in Duat
* **Nehbet-Anet** – A goddess who is attacked by Geb in the Tebtunis manual
* **Nehmetawy** – A minor goddess, the wife of Nehebkau or Thoth
* **Pelican** – Goddess of the dead
* **Pesi** – A goddess in Duat
* **Raet-Tawy** – A Woman version to Ra
* **Rekhit** – A goddess in Duat
* **Renpet** – Goddess of the year
* **Repyt** – A wife of Min 
* **Reret** – A protector Hippo goddess
* **Sehith** – A goddess in Duat
* **Sekhat-Hor** – A Cow goddess
* **Sesenet-Khu** – A goddess in Duat
* **Seshat** – Goddess of writing and record-keeping, depicted as a scribe
* **Shemat-Khu** – A goddess in Duat
* **Shentayet** – A protective goddess possibly of widows
* **Shesmetet** – A Lioness goddess
* **Swenet** – Goddess related to Aswan
* **Ta-Bitjet** – A minor scorpion goddess
* **Tasenetnofret** – A wife of Heru-ur
* **Tayt** – Goddess of weaving
* **Temet** – A Woman counterpart to Atum
* **Tenemu** – A creator goddess, wife of Tenem
* **Tetrads** – Goddess of completeness
* **Thmei** – Goddess of truth
* **Unut** – A goddess who looked like a Snake or a Hare, worshiped in the region of Hermopolis
* **Usit** – A goddess in Duat
* **Wepset** – A protector Snake goddess
* **Faltis** – God of failed sculpture made by Khnum

## Forgotten deities
### Gods

* **Aakhu** – A Ram headed god
* **Aakhu-hetch-t** – A god of the dead
* **Aakhu-ra** – A singing god of dawn
* **Ami-haf** – A god who has a harpoon
* **Ami-He-t-Serqet-Ka-hetep-t** – A god
* **Ami-kehau** – A god
* **Antywy** – A god of the tenth nome of Upper Egypt god of the sixth hour of night
* **Ari** – The creative god
* **Ari-em-aua** – God of the sixth hour of night
* **Ba-aakhu-ha-f** – A Ram headed god
* **Hun-sahu** – A god
* **Iaaw** – Dad of Ha
* **Khenti-heh-f** – A knife-eyed god who guarded the tomb of Osiris
* **Men-t** – A god
* **Meni** – A god
* **Met-her** – A god of the dead
* **Neb aa** – A singing god of dawn
* **Neb aq-t** – A Jackal god
* **Neb Kheper-Khenti-Tuat** – A Maat god
* **Neb Khert-ta** – A star god
* **Neter** – A Snake god
* **Neter-hau** – Nile god
* **Unta** – A light god
* **Up-hai** – God of the dead
* **Ur-ares** – A god of a boat
* **Arit-aakhu** – A star goddess
* **Maa-neter-s** – A singing goddess
* **Neb-t-mat** – A goddess in Duat
* **Urit** – A goddess
* **The Ennead** – An extended family of nine gods produced by Atum during the creation of the world. The Ennead usually consisted of Atum, his children Shu and Tefnut, their children Geb and Nut, and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys
* **The Four sons of Horus** – Four gods who protected the mummified body, particularly the internal organs in canopic jars
* **The Gate deities** – Many dangerous guardian gods at the gates of Duat (flanked by divine Doorkeepers and Heralds), to be ingratiated with spells and by knowing their names
* **The Hemsut** – Protective goddesses of Fate, destiny, and of the creation sprung from the primordial abyss; daughters of Ptah, linked to the concept of ka
* **The Her-Hequi** – Four gods in the fifth land of Duat
* **The Horus of the night deities''' – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or Urit-shefit, goddess of the fourth hour of the night, Heru-heri-uatch-f and Neb[t] ankh, god and goddess of the Fifth hour of the night, Ari-em-aua or Uba-em-tu-f and Mesperit, neb-t shekta or Neb-t tcheser, god and goddess of the sixth hour of the night, Heru-em-sau-ab and Herit-t-chatcha-ah, god and goddess of the seventh hour of the night, Ba-pefi and Ankh-em-neser-t or Merit-neser-t, god and goddess of the eighth hour of night, An-mut-f and Neb-t sent-t, god and goddess of the ninth hour of the night, Amset or Neb neteru and M'k-neb-set, god and goddess of the tenth hour of night, Uba-em-tu-f and Khesef-khemit or M'kheskhemuit, god and goddess of the eleventh hour, Khepri and Maa-neferut-Ra, god and goddess of the twelfth hour of the night
* **The Khnemiu** – Four gods wearing red crowns in the eleventh land of Duat
* **The Renniu** – Four bearded gods in the eleventh land of Duat
* **The Souls of Pe and Nekhen** – A set of gods of the predynastic rulers of Upper and Lower Egypt.
* **The Theban Triad** – Consisted of Amun, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu
* **The Twelve Thoueris goddesses** – (first:Ảmi-pet-seshem-neterit, second:Ảmi-utchat-sảakhu-Ảtemt)

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