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List of Egyptian Gods

Not a complete listing, but this is the majority of them and their rulerships:

Primordial gods:

  • Atum - god of the Sun; the All-Maker of the Universe, gods, and life
  • Ptah - god of wisdom, creativity, pottery, artwork, architecture, rebirth, and craftsmanship
  • Nun - god of the primordial waters
  • Naunet - goddess of the primordial waters; counterpart to Nun
  • Tatenen - god-personification of the mound of earth on the waters of Nun at the beginning of time 
  • Tefnut - goddess of wet air, moisture, dew, and rain
  • Shu - god of dry air, wind, light, and peace; twin brother/consort of Tefnut
  • Nuit - goddess of the sky, cosmos, astronomy, motherhood, and the Universe; wife of Geb
  • Geb - god of the earth and fertility; husband of Nuit

Significant gods:

  • Ra - god of the Sun, sky, order, and kingship; King of the Gods; said to be a form of Atum
  • Osiris - god of the Underworld, death, fertility, agriculture, vegetation, and rebirth; husband of Isis; King of the Dead
  • Isis - goddess of magic, life, compassion, death, rebirth, fertility, motherhood, childbirth, devotion, royalty, knowledge, protection, abundance, healing, and the elements; Queen of the Gods, wife of Osiris
  • Horus - god of the sky, war, hunting, and kingship
  • Set - god of chaos, mischief, storms, deserts, battle, danger, virility, and foreign lands
  • Hathor - goddess of love, compassion, beauty, women, motherhood, childbirth, fertility, joy, sex, music, dance, alcohol, festivity, and the cosmos
  • Sekhmet - goddess of war, destruction, blood-lust, plagues, healing, the Sun, and divine wrath
  • Nephthys - goddess of death, mourning, darkness, childbirth, burial, and air
  • Anubis - god of death, mummification, embalming, tombs, cemeteries, and the Underworld
  • Thoth - god of knowledge, wisdom, writing, magic, truth, integrity, time, and the Moon
  • Bast - goddess of domesticity, cats, family, children, pregnancy, women’s secrets, fertility, pleasure, sex, music, the arts, protection, perfume, fire, sunrise, and war
  • Ma’at - goddess of truth, justice, harmony, wisdom, morality, balance, and divine order
  • Ammit - goddess of retribution
  • Taweret -  goddess of childbirth, fertility, and protection
  • Sobek - god of sovereignty, military prowess, strength, fertility, medicine, surgery, protection, and water
  • Amun - god of the Sun and air; synchronized with Ra
  • Serqet - goddess of protection, healing, and venomous creatures
  • Neith - goddess of creation, war, weaving, wisdom, motherhood, childbirth, hunting, water, fate, and the cosmos
  • Qetesh - goddess of pleasure, sex, beauty, and nature
  • Khonsu - god of the Moon and healing
  • Wepwawet - god of war, hunting, and death; brother of Anubis

Additional gods:

  • Aken - ferryman god of the dead
  • Anat - goddess of war, sex, beauty, fertility, and hunting; originated from Canaan
  • Astarte - goddess of love, sex, war, beauty, fertility, and the stars; sister of Anat, originated from Canaan
  • Aker - god of the horizon
  • Am-Heh - the “eater of eternity” god who lives in the Underworld’s lake of fire 
  • Amunet - goddess of air and invisibility; female counterpart of Amun
  • Amunhotep - god of healing and wisdom
  • Andjety - god of fertility
  • Anhur - god of war
  • Anqet - goddess of fertility
  • Anti - hawk god of Upper Egypt
  • Anuket - goddess of war, fertility, lust, and Nile cataracts
  • Apedemak - god of war
  • Asclepius - god of healing
  • Ash - god of the Libyan desert and oases
  • Aten - god of the Sun
  • Apep - snake-god of evil
  • Ba’al - god of storms, war, fertility, weather, and seasons; originated from Canaan
  • Babi - god of virility
  • Ba-Pef - god of terror, especially spiritual terror
  • Bat - goddess of fertility and success
  • Bennu - god of the Sun and rebirth
  • Bes - god of childbirth, fertility, sex, humour, and war
  • Denwen - dragon god of fire and destruction
  • Fetket - god of bartenders; assistant of Ra
  • Duamutef - protective god of the canopic jar of the stomach; son of Horus
  • Hapi - god of fertility and the Nile; protected the canopic jar of the lungs 
  • Imsety - protective god of the liver canopic jar    
  • Qebehsenuef - protective god of the canopic jar of the intestines
  • Heh - god of eternity; feminine counterpart is Hauhet
  • Heqet - frog goddess of fertility and childbirth
  • Heka - god of magic and medicine
  • Heset - goddess of food, drink, beer, and merriment
  • Hu - god of the voice; personification of Ra’s first words of creation
  • Ihy - god of music and joy; son of Hathor and Horus the Elder
  • Kek - god of obscurity, night, and darkness; feminine counterpart is Kauket
  • Khnum - ram god of pottery, fertility, and virility
  • Maahes - lion god of the Sun and war; son of Sekhmet
  • Mafdet - feline goddess of justice and protection against venom
  • Merit - goddess of music who conducted the symphony of cosmic order
  • Meskhenet - goddess of childbirth and destiny who created the ka (spirit)
  • Nefertem - god of the blue lotus, perfume, aromatic healing, and the dawn
  • Nehebu-Kau - god who units the ka with the ba at one’s death
  • Neper - god of grain and the harvest
  • Renenutet - cobra goddess of nursing, fertility, and childbirth
  • Reshep - god of war and pestilence; originated from Canaan
  • Sepa - centipede god of protection
  • Serapis - a Greco-Egyptian god of fertility, vegetation, and the afterlife
  • Seshat - goddess of knowledge, wisdom, writing, books, mathematics, astronomy, calculations, architecture, and surveying; wife of Thoth
  • Shentayet - goddess of widows
  • Shezmu - god of drunkenness, wine, perfume, and abundance 
  • Tenenit - goddess of beer, brewing, and childbirth 
  • Wadjet - cobra goddess of protection