Egyptian Godesses
- Ammut
- The devourer of the unworthy dead. She had the head of a crocodile,
a lions front end and a hippopotamus behind
- Anuket
- Daughter of Khnum and Satis. Orriginally from Satis
- Bastet
- Cat goddess from Bubatis. Seen as a goddess of music and a mother figure and thus often shown with kittens and a sistrum.
Thought to be the daughter of Ra and often linked with the lion goddess
Sekhmet.
- Edjo
- Cobra goddess orriginally from Buto. Defender of the king and often
represented with the ureaus on the crown.
- Hathor
- Cow goddess of love, joy, fertility, music and dance. Daughter of Ra and wife of Horus at Edfu,
she guarded the sun during it's nightly journey through the underworld.
- Heket
- Frog goddess of childbirth and consort of Khnum.
- Isis
- Goddess of magic and mystery adn also a mother goddess. Daughter of
Geb and Nut, wife of Osiris and also his sister. Sister to Seth and
Nephthys.
- Maat
- Goddess of law, harmony and justice. Daughter of Ra. The ostrich feather in
her hair was used as a weight to weigh the hearts of the dead.
- Meretseger
- Cobra goddess whose name means 'lover of silence'. Guardian of
the necropolis.
- Meshkent
- Goddess of childbirth, rebirth and destiny. Associated with the birthing brick
used by Egyptian women.
- Mut
- Mother goddess who wore a vulture shaped headress. Wife of Amun.
- Neith
- Creator goddess from Sais, whose symbol was a sheild and crossed arrows.
Later seen as a consort of Seth and mother to Sobek.
- Nekhbet
- Vulture goddess of Upper Egypt. A protection symbol who held an eternity
symbol in her claws.
- Nephthys
- Daughter of Geb and Nut, sister and wife of Seth. Sister to Isis and
Osiris.
- Nut
- Sky goddess whose hands and feet rested at the four cardinal points.
Also a funeral goddess. Daughter of Tefnut and Shu and wife of Geb. Mother
of Isis, Osiris, Seth and Nephthys. Often seen as the mother of Ra who she
swallowed at night and then gave birth to at dawn.
- Qadesh
- Goddess of sexual pleasure orriginally from the middle east. Consort of Min
and mother of Reshep.
- Sekhmet
- Lion goddess who symbolised courage in battle. Also known as the 'eye
of Ra'.
- Selket
- Scorpion goddess who guarded the coffin.
- Taweret
- Hippopotamus goddess of childbirth and consort of Seth. Sometimes shown as
the head of a hippo, the limbs of a lion, the tail of a crocodile and human
pendulous breasts.
- Tefnut
- Goddess of moist air. Wife and sister of Shu and daughter of Amun.
- Wadjet
- Snake goddess of lower Egypt.