Ancienty Egypt
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- Amun
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-Man with ram head
-ram
-man wearing ostrich plumed hat
-one of the most powerful gods, called kind of gods - Anubis
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-man with a jackal head
-a jackal
-god of embalming and the dead
-watched over the dead - Aten
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-a sun disk with rays which end in hands
-form of sun god Ra
-during reign of Akhenaten made king of gods - Atum
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-'The All' or 'Perfection'
-man with double crown
-first god to exist on earth
-creator god
-rose from waters of chaos (nun) and created all the gods - Bastet
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-woman with the head of cat
-protective goddes
-sometimes appeared with head of lioness to protect king in battle
-daughter of Ra - Bes
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-dwarf with lion and human features
-dwarf wearing sking of a lion
-protector of pregnant women, newborn babies and family
-protected against snake and scorpion bites - Geb
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-man lying down below the arch of the sky goddess Nut
-man with a goose on his head
-god of the earth, husband and brother of Nut
-father of osiris, isis nepthys and seth
-made horus ruler of the living - Hapy
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-man with a pot belly
-shown with water plants
-god of innundation
-brought yearly flood of the nile - Hathor
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-'House of Horus'
-woman with the ears of a cow
- a cow
-woman with a headdress of horns and a sun disk
-protective goddess
-goddess of love and joy
-wife of Horus, mother of the pharaoh - Horus
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-'The One Far Above'
-man with the head of a hawk
-a hawk
-god of the sky
-protector of the ruler of Egypt
-pharaoh was living horus
-son of Isis and Osiris - Isis
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-woman with headdress in the shape of the throne,
-a pair of cowhorns with a sun disk
-protective goddess
-used magic spells to help in people in need
-wife of osiris and mother of horus - Khepri
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-'He Who is Coming into Being'
-man with the head of a scarab
-a scarab beetle
-god of creation of the movement of the sun and rebirth - Nut
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-woman whose body arches across the sky wearing a dress decorated with stars
-sky goddess whose body created a vault or canopy over the earth
-sister/wife of Geb
-swallowed and gave rebirth to Ra - Khnum
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-man with the head of a curly-horned ram
-creator god and god of innundation
-molded people on a potter's wheel - Ma'at
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-woman with a feather on her head
-a feather
-goddess of truth justice and harmony
-associated with the balance of things on earth
-daughter of the son god Ra - Nephthys
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-'Lady of the Mansion'
-woman with a headdress showing her name in heiroglyphs
-protective goddess of the dead
-sister of Isis and Osiris and sister/wife of Seth
-mother of Anubis - Nun
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-man carrying a bark
-was the waters of chaos
-only thing that existed on earth before land
- Osiris
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-a mummified man wearing a white cone-like headdress with feathers
-god of dead and ruler of the underworld
-brother/husband of Isis, brother of Nepthys and Seth, father of Horus
-god of resurrection and fertility - Ptah
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-man wrapped in a tight white cloak carrying a staff
-god of craftsman
-spoke words and world came into being - Ra
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-'Sun'
-man with hawk head and headdress with a sun disk
-sun god
-most important god - Ra-Horakhty
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-'Horus in the Horizon'
-man with the head of a hawk with a sun disk headdress
-god of rising sun
-combination of Horus and Ra - Sekhmet
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-'The Powerful One'
-woman with the head of lioness
-goddess of war - Seshat
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-woman wearing a panther skin dress and a star headdress
-goddess of writing and measurement - Seth
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-man with the head of a 'seth animal' (unidentifiable)
-god of chaos
-represented everything that threatened Egypt
-brother of Osiris and Isis, brother/husband of Nepthys
-murdered Osiris - Shu
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-'He Who Rises Up'
-man wearing headdress with feathers
-a lion
- god of the air
-held up figure of Nut so that earth and sky were separated - Sobek
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-man with the head of a crocodile and the headdress of feathers and a sun disk
-nile god - Tawaret
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-'The Great One'
-head of a hippopotamus with the arms and legs of a lion, the back and tail of a crocodile, and the breasts and stomach of a pregnant woman
-goddess who protected women during pregnancy and child birth - Tefnut
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-woman with the head of a lioness
-goddess of moisture
-wife of shu, and mother of Nut and Geb - Thoth
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-man with the head of an Ibis holding a writing palette
-Ibis
-a baboon
-god of writing and knowledge