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Khnum Khons Maat Min Month Mut Nefertum Neith Nekhbet Nephthys Nut

All The Gods Egyptian

Name	God Of..	Name	God Of..
Amen		Amen-Ra
Amset	protector of the liver	Anubis	preserve all the dead
Anuket	dispenser of cool water	Apis	deity of fertility
Aten	the sun	Atum
Bast		Bes	entertainer of children
Duamutef	protector of the stomach	Edjo
Geb	the earth	Hadit
Hapi	protector of the lungs	Hathor	goddess of the dead
Harpocrates		Heqet
Heru-ra-ha		Horus
Horus of Behedet		Imhotep
Isis		Khepri
Khnum		Khons
Maat		Min
Month		Mut
Nefertum		Neith
Nekhbet		Nephthys
Nut		Osiris
Pharaoh		Ptah
Qebehsenuf		Qetesh
Ra		Ra-Horakhty
Sati		Seker
Sekhmet		Selket
Serapis		Set
Shu		Sobek
Sothis		Tefnut
Thoth		Thoueris

Khnum

Appearing as a ram-headed human, Khnum was worshipped most at Antinoe and Elephantine. He was another creator-god, represented as fashioning human beings on his pottery wheel. His consort was variously Heqet, Neith, or Sati.
See also Sati.

Khons (Chons)

The third member (with his parents Amen and Mut) of the great triad of Thebes. Khons was the god of the moon. The best-known story about him tells of him playing the ancient game senet ("passage") against Thoth, and wagering a portion of his light. Thoth won, and because of losing some of his light, Khons cannot show his whole glory for the entire month, but must wax and wane. The main temple in the enclosure at Karnak is dedicated to him.
See also Amen, Mut, Thoth.

Maat

Considered the wife of Thoth and the daughter of Ra by various traditions, Maat's name implies "truth" and "justice" and even "cosmic order", but there is no clear English equivalent. She is an anthropomorphic personification of the concept maat and as such has little mythology. Maat was represented as a tall woman with an ostrich feather (the glyph for her name) in her hair. She was present at the judgement of the dead; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life.
See also Thoth.

Min (Menu, Amsu)

A form of Amen depicted holding a flail (thought to represent a thunderbolt in Egyptian art) and with an erect penis; his full name was often given as Menu-ka-mut-f ("Min, Bull of his Mother"). Min was worshiped as the god of virility; lettuces were offered as sacrifice to him and then eaten in hopes of procuring manhood; and he was worshiped as the husband of the goddess Qetesh, goddess of love and femininity.
See also Amen, Qetesh.

Month (Mentu, Men Thu)

The principal god of Thebes before the rise of the Amen cult; appeared as a falcon-headed man and often united with Horus. Primarily a war god.

Mut (Golden Dawn, Auramooth)

The wife of Amen in Theban tradition; the word mut in Egyptian means "mother", and she was the mother of Khonsu, the moon god.
See also Amen, Khons.

Nefertum

The youthful son of Ptah and Sekhmet, connected with the rising sun; depicted as a youth crowned with or seated upon a lotus blossom.
See also Ptah.

Neith (Net, Neit; Golden Dawn, Thoum-aesh-neith)

A very ancient goddess of war, worshiped in the Delta; revered as a goddess of wisdom, identified with Athena by the Greeks; in later traditions, the sister of Isis, Nephthys, and Selket, and protectress of Duamutef, the god of the stomach of the deceased. Mother of the crocodile god Sobek.
See also Sobek.

Nekhbet

Upper Egyptian patron goddess, represented as a vulture in iconography, and often part of the crown of the pharaoh, along with her Lower Egyptian counterpart Edjo.
See also Edjo.

Nephthys (Nebt-het)

The youngest child of Geb and Nut. The sister and wife of Set, andsister of Isis and Osiris; also the mother (variantly by Set or by Osiris) of Anubis. She abandoned Set when he killed Osiris, and assisted Isis in the care of Horus and the resurrection of Osiris. She was, along with her sister, considered the special protectress of the dead, and she was the guardian of Hapi, the protector of the lungs of the deceased. See also Isis, Osiris, Set.

Nut (Nuit)

The goddess of the sky, daughter of Shu and Tefnut, sister and wife of Geb, mother of Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. Described by Crowley in his Magick in Theory and Practice thus: "Infinite space is called the goddess NUIT."
Nut was generally depicted as a woman with blue skin, and her body covered with stars, standing on all fours, leaning over her husband, representing the sky arched over the earth.

Her relationship to Hadit is an invention of Crowley's with no basis in Egyptology, save only that Hadit was often depicted underneath Nut - one finds Nut forming the upper frame of a scene, and the winged disk Hadit floating beneath, silently as always. This is an artistic convention, and there was no marriage between the two in Egyptian myth.

See also Geb, Shu.

Rewritten and reformatted from the original "Frequently Asked Questions and Information about Egyptian Mythology", 8 May 1994 revision, by Shawn C. Knight.
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