Egyptian Mythology names

## Names

### Male

**Ammit**

* Meaning soul eater.
* Demon who represented the people's fear of death.

**Amun**

* Meaning the hidden one.
* King of Gods, god of air, creativity and fertility.

**Anhur**

* Meaning he who leads the distant.
* God of war.

**Anubis**

* Meaning royal child.
* God of the underworld.

**Aten**

* Meaning solar disk.
* God of the sun.

**Atum**

* Meaning completion.
* God of creation.

**Hapi**

* God of the flooding of the Nile.

**Heka**

* Meaning magic.
* God of magic.

**Hemen**

* God of falcons.

**Horus**

* Meaning falcon.
* God of light and the sky.

**Khepri**

* Meaning to develop.
* God of rebirth, sunrise and scarab beetles.

**Khnum**

* God of creation and water.

**Khonsu**

* Meaning traveller.
* God of the moon.

**Mehen**

* Meaning coiled one.
* God of snakes.

**Nefertem**

* Meaning beautiful one who closes.
* God of healing and beauty.

**Neper**

* God of grain.

**Osiris**

* Meaning powerful.
* God of death, the afterlife, resurrection and life.

**Rem**

* Meaning to weep.
* God of fertilisation, his tears made crops grow.

**Seker**

* Meaning hurry to me.
* God of the Memphis tombs.

**Set**

* Meaning pillar.
* God of chaos, storms, war and the desert.

**Sobek**

* God of the Nile, military, fertility and crocodiles.

**Thoth**

* God of science, magic, speech, writing and the moon.

### Female

**Ammit**

* Meaning soul eater.
* Demon who represented the people's fear of death.

**Amunet**

* Meaning the hidden one.
* Goddess and companion of Amun.

**Anuket**

* Meaning embracer.
* Goddess of the Nile and of rivers.

**Bastet**

* Meaning fire, heat.
* Goddess of pregnancy, fertility and the sun.

**Hathor**

* Meaning from the house of Horus.
* Goddess of love.

**Hatmehit**

* Meaning chief of fish.
* Goddess of fish.

**Hedetet**

* Goddess of scorpions.

**Heqet**

* Goddess of frogs, fertility and life.

**Hesat**

* Goddess of cows and milk.

**Imentet**

* Goddess of tombs.

**Isis**

* Meaning throne.
* Goddess of the sky and nature.

**Kebechet**

* Meaning cooling water.
* Goddess of embalming and mummification.

**Menhit**

* Meaning she who kills.
* Goddess of war.

**Meret**

* Meaning beloved.
* Goddess of singing, dancing and celebration.

**Meretseger**

* Meaning she who enjoys silence.
* Goddess of tomb building and protector of royal tombs.

**Meskhenet**

* Goddess of childbirth.

**Neith**

* Meaning water.
* Goddess of weaving, hunting, wisdom and war.

**Nekhbet**

* Meaning from Nekheb.
* Patron goddess of Upper Egypt.

**Nepit**

* Goddess of grain.

**Qetesh**

* Meaning holy.
* Goddess of fertility, sacred prostitution and sexual pleasure.

**Renenutet**

* Goddess of harvest and nourishment.

**Satet**

* Meaning she who runs like an arrow.
* Goddess of floods.

**Sekhmet**

* Meaning she who is powerful.
* Goddess of fire, war, vengeance and medicine.

**Serket**

* Meaning she who causes the throat to breathe.
* Goddess of scorpions, medicine, magic and healing venomous stings.

**Seshat**

* Meaning she who writes.
* Goddess of writing and wisdom.

**Taweret**

* Meaning great one.
* Goddess of fertility and childbirth.

**Tenenet**

* Goddess of beer and beer making, protector of pregnant women.