Ancient Egyptian Gods

Name	What they stood for	What they look like
Hathor	love, music, dance	sundisk,cow horns on head
Nut	sky goddess	her arch makes heaven
Geb	earth god	he lies on ground making earth
Osiris	god of the dead	portrayed as mummified
Seth	lord of desert, storm and violence	human body, forked tail, greyhound head
Thoth	moon god	human figure, ibis head
Isis	Queen of gods, sister of Osiris	woman with headdress and sitting on throne
Ma'at	law, truth and justice	sitting with ostrich feather on head
Ra	sun god, king of gods	falcon head, crowned with sun disk
Amon	creator god	male figure with ram's head
Anubis	embalmer	black jackal, or male figure, dog's head

Ra

Hathor

Anubis

Amon

Gods and Goddesses

Egyptians believed in gods. They believed in over 3,000 gods and goddesses. Each one stood for different things in nature. Each village or town had their own gods. Egyptians loved to tell stories about their gods and goddesses.

The goddess Nut was the sky goddess who formed heaven and her husband Geb was Earth. The god, Shu was the god of air who held up Nut. Hathor was the goddess of love, music and dance. In Thebes, she was the protector of the dead. She is shown in pictures as a woman or a crow. Amon is the creator god. He has a human figure with a ram's head. Anubis was the god who wrapped the mummies and was in charge of embalming. He was a black jackel or a male figure with a dog's head. He holds the sceptre that the kings and gods held. There was a god named Thoth. He was the god of wisdom and writing. Thoth's head was the shape of an ibis' head. An ibis is a bird that Egyptians thought was very wise. Ancient Egyptians loved their gods.

Animals sacred to the gods were mummified just like people.

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