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Amathaunta |

Goddess of the
sea. |
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Amaunet |
Mother Goddess
and personification of the life-giving northern wind. Pictures as a snake or snake-head wearing the crown of lower Egypt. |
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Ament |
Goddess who welcomed
the spirits of the newly dead at the gates of the underworld with bread and water. |
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Ankt |
Spear-carrying
Goddess of war. |
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Anouke |
Elder Goddess
of war. Pictured with bow and arrows. |
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Anuket |
Goddess of the
Nile river
and nourisher of the fields. Pictured with a crown of reeds and ostrich feathers. |
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Bastet |
Cat headed Goddess
of Egypt. A solar and later lunar deity. |
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Bat |
Cow Goddess of
fertility. Pictured as a cow or as a woman with the ears and horns of a cow. |
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Beset |
Female version
of the god Bes. |
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Buto |
Snake Goddess
of the oracle at Buto and protector of the Egyptian royal family. |
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Hathor |
One of the main
Goddesses of Egypt, Hathor is the celestial cow and protector of women and the Queen of Egypt. She is the Goddess of love,
children, pregnancy, dancing, singing, and poetry. She has been associated with many other Goddesses, including Sekhmet, Bastet,
Beb, and Isis. Often pictures as a cow with the sun disk between it's horns or as a woman wearing a disc and horns headdress. |
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Hatmehit |
Fish Goddess. |
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Hauhet |
Goddess of immeasurable
infinity. Often pictured as a frog or a woman with a frog's head. |
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Hedetet |

Scorpion Goddess. |
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Heket |
Goddess of childbirth
and protector of the dead. Seen as a frog or a woman with the head of a frog. |
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Hemsut |
Goddess of fate. |
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Hesat |
Cow Goddess and
Goddess of milk. |
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Ipet |
Goddess of childbirth
and 'mother of the two lands'. Pictured as a hippopotamus. |
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Isis |
One of the most
popular goddesses of Egypt. The divine queen and mother of the heavens, both sister and wife to Osiris and mother of Horus.
She was the protector and mother-figure of the pharaohs and the protector of women, children and sailors. |
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Kebechet |
Goddess who represents
purification through water. A major Goddess of the funeral cult, she is pictured as a snake. |
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Ma'at |
Goddess of truth,
judgment and order. She represented the concepts of justice and universal order, and all judges were her representatives.
Pictured as a woman with a large ostrich feather in her crown. |
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Mehturt |
Sky-Goddess. Represents
the time of morning and the waters from which Re (the sun) emerged. Seen as a giant cow with the solar disk between her horns. |
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Menhit |
Goddess of war.
Seen as a lioness. |
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Meret |
Goddess of song
and rejoicing. |
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Meretseger |
Goddess of the
mountain overlooking the Valley of the Kings. Protected the royal tombs from disturbance. Seen as a cobra or a scorpion with
the head of a woman. |
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Mesenet |
Egyptian Goddess
of childbirth. She forms the child in the womb and the ka, or spirit, of the child. Also seen as Goddess of fate or fortune. |
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Meskhenet |

Goddess of midwives
and the birth chamber. |
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Mut |
Primordial Goddess
of the sky and the 'mother of mothers'. Seen as a vulture or a woman with the head of a vulture, wearing bright red or blue
robes. |
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Naunet |
Goddess of the
primordial abyss of the underworld. Her male counterpart is Nun. |
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Neith |
Goddess of war
and weapons, including the weapons of the hunter. Also the Goddess of weaving, she provided the wrappings for the mummies'
bodies. |
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Nekhbet |
Vulture Goddess
of Upper Egypt and protector of the infant pharaoh. She was present at the birth of the future rulers of Egypt. Pictured on
the pharaoh's crown. |
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Nephthys |
'Mistress of the
House". Goddess who meets and teaches the newly dead, as well as comforting the members of their family left alive. Also involved
with childbirth. Seen as a woman or a Kite (bird). |
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Nepit |
Grain Goddess.
Female counterpart of the God Neper. |
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Nunet |
Goddess of the
ocean. |
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Nut |
The sky Goddess,
and literal personification of the sky and the heavens. Along with her husband, Seb, forms the natural world. She is the barrier
between chaos and the order of the world. Portrayed as a naked woman painted dark blue with stars on her body. |
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Pachet |

Goddess of the
desert. |
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Qetesh |
Originally a Syrian
Goddess, worshipped in Egypt as a Goddess of love. Possible connection with Hathor. |
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Renenet |
Goddess of plenty
and good fortune. |
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Renenutet |
Goddess of the
harvest. Could ensure the plentiful production of fields with one look. Pictured as a snake. |
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Renpet |
Goddess of Spring
and youth. |
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Sakhmet |
Also known as
Sekhmet. Bloodthirsty and violent Goddess of war and divine vengeance. She is seen as the Goddess who accompanies the pharaoh
into battle, as well as the Goddess of plague and disease. Pictured as a woman with the head of a lioness. |
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Satet |
Goddess of the
flooding Nile and fertility. |
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Serket |
Scorpion Goddess.
Teacher of the dead and protector of the canopic jars which house the bodily organs of mummies. Pictured as a woman with a
scorpion-shaped headdress.
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Seshat |

Goddess of writing,
mathematics, building-schemes, histories and historical records. A daughter of Thoth, she kept the royal annals of the pharaohs. |
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Shai |
Goddess of Fate,
usually seen with Reneret, or fortune. |
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Sia |
Primeval Goddess
embodying the Mind. |
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Sons of Horus |
Sons of the god
Horus who assist the dead in their journey to the Underworld. Their heads are on the canopic jars and the four corners of
the sarcophagus. They are Imset, Hapi, Duamutef and Kebechsenef. |
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Sopdet |
Fertility Goddess
and the Dog Star, Sirius. With the appearance of Sirius, the Nile floods began and Sopdet became associated with the fertility
of the floods. She was later merged with Isis. |
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Taouris |
Goddess of pregnancy
and birth. Pictured as a hippopotamus with a huge belly standing on her hind legs. |
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Tefnut |
Goddess of moisture.
Produced Seb and Nut with Shu. |
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Tenenit |
Goddess of beer. |
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Thoth |
God of wisdom
and the mind, inventor of writing and patron of scribes and scholars. Messenger and mediator of the gods, he questioned the
dead at the Weighing of the Heart. Seen as a man with the head of an Ibis, or as an Ibis or baboon. |
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Unut |
Hare Goddess. |
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Wosyet |
Goddess protector
of the young. |