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          Gods and Goddesses                                                The ancient Egyptians believed in many gods and                     goddesses. To be exact they believed in 3,000. This                   means the Egyptians had a god for almost anything
 

Amun Chief god who created the earth.	Anubis  Jakal-headed god of embalming	Atum Believed to be the first god on earth	Bastet Goddess of motherhood
Bes Demi-god of protection and family	Geb  God of the earth	Hapy God of inundation	Hathor Goddess of love and joy
Horus Hawk god  of the sky	Isis Goddess of magic and music	Khepri God of rebirth with the head of a scarab	Khnum Ram-headed god of potters
Ma'at Goddess of balance, justice, truth,and harmony	Nephthys Goddess who protects the underworld	Nut    Sky-goddess whose body created a canopy over the earth	Osiris God of death and ruler of the underworld
Ptah    God of crafts	Ra Hawk-headed god of the sun	Sekhmet Lion-headed goddess of war and disease	Seshat Goddess of writing and measurement
Seth God of war, disease, and chaos	Shu God of the air. He lifted the figure of Nut to seperate it from the earth	Sobek Crcodile god of the Nile	Tawaret The hippo-headed goddess of birth
Thoth Ibis-headed god of learning and the moon	The   End

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