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Ancient Egyptian Gods

Anubis was
depicted as a
jackal.

Apis was depicted


as a bull.

Bastet (or Bast)


was depicted with
the head of a cat
or lion.

Horus was
depicted as a
falcon.

Anubis was the


Egyptian god of
the
underworld
who guided the
spirits of the dead
into
the
afterlife..........It
was his job to
waken the dead
for
their
final
judgement
and
oversee
'the
weighing of the
heart'..........This
was the method
of
judgement
used to decide if
a soul was worthy
to
enter
the
underworld..........
He was also the
god who invented
mummification.
After Seth had
killed Osiris,
Anubis wrapped
his body in linen
to prevent it from
decaying.

Apis
was
the
Egyptian god of
strength
and
fertility.......The
spirit of Apis was
said to be present
in the body of a
real bull which
was kept by the
Pharaoh
and
looked after by
his
priests.....At
the end of the old
year, the Apis bull
was slaughtered
and
its
flesh
eaten
by
the
Pharaoh. It was
believed that the
Pharaoh
would
then inherit the
great power of
Apis........Each
year the priests
would search for
a new Apis bull
which would then
live a life of
luxury until the
ritual
was
repeated.

Bastet was an
Egyptian goddess
from Lower Egypt
who
was
associated
with
joy, music and
dancing.......She
was the mother
of Mihos, another
lion god, and the
wife of Ptah, god
of the arts and
crafts..........Baste
t is mentioned in
the Book of the
Dead where she
destroyed
the
bodies
of
the
deceased
with
her 'royal flame' if
they failed any of
the tests for entry
to
the
underworld.

A falcon was the


perfect
symbol
for the Egyptian
god of the sky,
light
and
goodness
who
soared above and
protected
the
land
of
the
Pharaohs.....It
was believed that
each
Pharaoh
became Horus on
Earth and was
reborn as Horus
after
their
death.....In
a
battle
which
lasted 80 years,
Horus
conquered Seth,
the god of Upper
Egypt, to revenge
the murder of his
father, Osiris.

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Khnum was
depicted as a
ram.

Seth was
depicted as a
strange
composite
creature.

Khnum was the


Egyptian
water
god
and
the
potter
god
of
creation.......It
was believed that
he created the
first children on
his potter's wheel
with clay from the
banks
of
the
Nile..........Khnum
also
protected
the sun (in the

Seth
was
depicted
as
a
strange creature
that seems to be
a composite of
various
animals
like
a
giraffe,
camel, ant eater
or
okapi......He
was the Egyptian
god of storms and
chaos......Out
of
jealousy,
Seth
murdered
his

Sobek was
depicted as a
crocodile.

Sobek was the


Egyptian god of
the Nile which
was believed to
have
been
created from his
sweat........As
Sobek possessed
the strength and
nature
of
a
crocodile, which
the
Egyptians
both feared and
respected,
he
became a symbol

Thoth was
depicted as an
ibis.

Thoth was the


Egyptian god of
wisdom, writing,
numbers,
the
arts,
astronomy
and magic........He
was also a god of
the
underworld,
in charge of the
scales in the Hall
of
Judgement.........T
hoth used the
scales to weigh
the heart of the

form of the god


Ra) on its daily
journey through
the
underworld.......E
very night they
sailed together in
the solar barque
until
the
sun
safely rose again
at the dawn of
the new day.

brother Osiris, the


ruler
of
Egypt.......He
tricked Osiris into
lying down inside
an
expensive
chest, with the
promise that it
would be his, if
he could fit inside
it......With Osiris
in position, Seth's
collaborators
nailed the lid shut
and threw him
into the Nile to
drown..........Isis,
the devoted wife
of
Osiris,
searched for and
found the chest
which held Osiris'
body......Seth was
so furious when
she
discovered
his brother's body
that he cut it into
fourteen
pieces
and
scattered
them throughout
the land.

of the Pharaoh's
power..........The
Nile, which was
full of crocodiles,
was important to
the livelihood of
the
Egyptians......It
therefore
made
good sense to
have a god like
Sobek who could
appease
these
ferocious beasts.

deceased against
the feather of
truth
to
determine if they
were worthy to
enter the afterlife.
As the scribe of
the gods, Thoth
recorded
the
result of each
judgement.

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HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

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HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

cu

PH

Hieroglyph

Hieroglyph

SH

th

Wedjat Eye Pectoral

Ankh

Rosetta
Stone

Cartouche

Scarab

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HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET

Hieroglyph A

Hieroglyph B

Hieroglyph C

Hieroglyph D

Hieroglyph E

Hieroglyph F

Hieroglyph G

Hieroglyph H

Hieroglyph I

Hieroglyph J

Hieroglyph K

Hieroglyph L

Hieroglyph M

Hieroglyph N

Hieroglyph O

Hieroglyph P

Hieroglyph Q

Hieroglyph R

Hieroglyph S

Hieroglyph T

Hieroglyph U

Hieroglyph V

Hieroglyph W

Hieroglyph X

Hieroglyph Y

Hieroglyph Z

Hieroglyph CH

Hieroglyph PH

Hieroglyph SH

Hieroglyph TH

Ankh

Cartouche

Wedjat Eye

Pectoral

Rosetta Stone

Scarab

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