God and godesses of Egypt ???
Like all other civilization, the rich and cultured civilization of Egypt had their own gods and goddesses and worshiped them. They looked like humans . Some deities had unusual features, mostly the head , on top of hominoid bodies. Different places and towns favoured to worship different gods preffered by the respective pharaos.
Here is a summary of some of the major gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt and their primary functions.
RE – RA
Re or Ra, the Egyptian sun god, ruler of everything, was especially associated with the city of the sun or Heliopolis. He came to be associated with Horus. Re may be depicted as a man with a sun disk on his head or with the head of a falcon
ANUBIS
Anubis was the jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology. He is portrayed as holding the scales on which the heart was weighed. If the heart was lighter than a feather, the dead would be led by Anubis to Osiris. If heavier, the soul would be destroyed.
Bast or bastet
Bast is usually sculpted via a lynx like head or ears on a woman's body or as a (usually, non-domestic) cat. The cat was her sacred animal. She was a daughter of Ra and was a protective goddess. There is another another name for Bast - Ailuros .A second origin of her’s is that she was originally thought to be a sun goddess who came to be associated with the moon after contact with the Greek goddess Artemis.
BES or BISU
The Egyptian god,is possibly of Nubian origin. Instead of the profile view of most of the other Egyptian gods,he is depicted as a dwarf god, sticking out his tongue, in full frontal view .Bes was a protector god who helped in childbirth and promoted fertility. He is considered to be a threat against snakes and protector from misfortune.
GEB OR KEB
God of the earth, Geb,was an Egyptian fertility god is believed to lay the egg from which the sun was hatched. He was known as the Great Cackler because of his association with geese. Geb's sacred animal is the goose. Lower Egypt worshiped him, where he was depicted as bearded with a goose on his head or a white crown. His laughter was thought to cause earthquakes. Geb married his sister Nut, the sky goddess. Set(h) and Nephthys were children of Geb and Nut. Geb is often shown witnessing the weighing of the heart during the judgment of the dead in the afterlife. Tour Egypt says Geb was associated with the Greek god Kronos.
HATHOR
Hathor was an Egyptian cow-goddess and personification of the Milky Way. She was the wife or daughter of Ra and mother of Horus in some traditions.
HORUS
Horus was normally considered the son of Osiris and Isis. He was the pharaoh's protector and also patron of young men. Har-Pa-Neb-Taui (Horus Lord of the Two Lands)Horus' different names are associated with specific aspects of Horus so that Horus Behudety is associated with the noon sun. Horus was the falcon god, although the sun god Re, with whom Horus is sometimes associated, also appeared in falcon form.
NEITH
Neith (Nit (Net, Neit) is a predynastic Egyptian goddess who is compared with the Greek goddess Athena. She is mentioned in Plato's Timaeus as coming from the Egyptian district of Sais. Neith is depicted as a weaver, like Athena, and also like Athena as a weapon-bearing war goddess. She is also shown wearing a red crown for Lower Egypt. Neith is another mortuary god connected with the woven bandages of the mummy.
ISIS
Isis is represented as a beautiful woman wearing a sun disk. She was associated with life, the winds, the heavens, beer, abundance, magic, and more. Isis was the great Egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus, sister of Osiris, Set, and Nephthys, and daughter of Geb and Nut, who was worshiped all over Egypt and elsewhere. She searched for her husband's body, retrieved and reassembled Osiris, taking on the role of goddess of the dead. She then impregnated herself from Osiris' body and gave birth to Horus whom she raised in secrecy to keep him safe from Osiris' killer, Seth.
NEPHTHYS
Nephthys (Nebet-het, Nebt-het) is the head of the household of the gods, and was the daughter of Seb and Nut, sister of Osiris, Isis, and Set, wife of Set, mother of Anubis, either by Osiris or Set. Nephthys is sometimes depicted as a falcon or as a woman with falcon wings. Nephthys was a death goddess as well as being a goddess of women and the house and a companion of Isis.
NUT
Nut (Nuit, Newet, and Neuth) is the Egyptian sky goddess depicted supporting the sky with her back, her body blue and covered with stars. Nut is the daughter of Shu and Tefnut, the wife of Geb, and mother of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nepthys.
Osiris
Osiris, god of the dead, is the son of Geb and Nut, brother/husband of Isis, and father of Horus. He is dressed like the pharaohs wearing an atef crown with ram's horns, and carrying a crook and flail, with his lower body mummified. Osiris is an underworld god who, after being murdered by his brother, was brought back to life by his wife. Since he was killed, Osiris thereafter lives in the underworld where he judges the dead.
