Who is the best Egyptian God?

Question

I have to do a report on a female Egyptian God. I know Isis has a lot of information to work with, but who else is good?
Wadget
Bastet
Nekhbet
Mut
Tuart
Maat
Hathor
Neith
Nut
Sati
Shu

Answer 1

I really like Bastet (Bast)! She was the cat goddess, but she also protected humans against contageous diseases and evil spirits. Her cult was mostly centered around the Nile region. She's usually depicted either as a cat-headed woman carrying a systrum (a kind of percussion instrument like a tambourine) and a basket ... or as a whole cat. In either form there are usually kittens at her feet.

There's also Hathor, called the Mother Goddess. (I don't think much of that title, since I consider Isis the Mother Goddess)! She's really important, though ... being she was responsible for Music and Dancing! All Egyptian women worshipped her, from the queen of the land to the lowly servants, and she was the protectress of pregnant women! Now, that's power! She was Horus' nurse - which is why she was usually depicted as either a cow or as a woman with a cow's head.

Ma'at was the primeval goddess of truth and justice. She breathed life into the gods (which makes her pretty HIGH on the list of the most powerful of the female Egyptian gods! She's usually honoured at funerals. She was believed to bring life after death to the peaceful and law-abiding ... but death to the violent. (Harsh)!

Sekhmet (not on your list) was known as 'the Powerful'. She was portrayed as either a lion or as a woman with the head of a lion! She was a warrior goddess, and on the battlefield she would turn into a fearsome lioness and go to with a vengeance!!!

I really like Bastet ... but I really, REALLY love Isis! She's like the great MOTHER of all Mothers! In my opinion Isis was the greatest of all Egyptian gods ... including the male gods!!!

Answer 2

Hathor is great too. She is another of the great mother goddesses, and I think is represented as a cow. Nut is teh sky goddess, and is the mother of the main gods (isis, Osiris, seth, nephthys). She is interesting because in most mythologies the sky god is a male god, and the earth god is female (in Egyptian myth the earth god is Geb, a male).

Answer 3

So many of the deities were combined, or shared fields, that it can be hard to keep them all separated. They're all very interesting, it really just depends on which one you like researching the most. I would personally pick Nekhbet, or Nephthys, or Hathor. There's a good bit to be found about the last two, that I've seen, especially Hathor.

Answer 4

Horus - Sun God

Born of a Virgin
Born on December 25th
Three Kings from the east came
teacher at age 30
resurrected El-Lazarus from the dead
crucified between two thieves
rose again from the dead after three days

Answer 5

I would have to say that you have left out 2 of the most venerated God/ess in Egyptian mythology, that being Isis and Osiris....
Isis (mythology), in Egyptian mythology, goddess of fertility and motherhood. According to Egyptian belief, she was the daughter of the god Geb (“Earth”) and the goddess Nut (“Sky”), the sister-wife of Osiris, judge of the dead, and mother of Horus, god of day. After the end of the New Kingdom in the 4th century bc, the centre of the cult of Isis, which was then reaching its greatest peak, was on Philae, an island in the Nile, where a great temple was built to her during the 30th Dynasty. Ancient stories describe Isis as having great magical skill, and she was represented as human in form though she was frequently described as wearing the horns of a cow. Her personality was believed to resemble that of Hathor, the goddess of love and gaiety.

The cult of Isis spread from Alexandria throughout the Hellenistic world after the 4th century bc. It appeared in Greece in combination with the cults of Horus, her son, and Serapis, the Greek name for the sacred bull believed to be an incarnation of Osiris. The Greek historian Herodotus identified Isis with Demeter, the Greek goddess of earth, agriculture, and fertility. In 86 bc, during the consulship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the tripartite cult of Isis, Horus, and Serapis was introduced to Rome and became one of the most popular branches of Roman religion. It later gained a bad reputation from the licentiousness of some of its priestly rites, and subsequent consuls made efforts to suppress or limit the cult of Isis. The cult died out in Rome after the institution of Christianity, and the last remaining Egyptian temples to Isis were closed in the mid-6th century ad.

Osiris, one of the principal deities in Egyptian mythology. He was originally the local god of Busiris and later of Abydos, which long remained the centre of his cult. He represented the male productive force in nature, and became identified with the setting Sun. Thus he was regarded as the ruler of the realm of the dead in the mysterious region below the western horizon.

Osiris was the son of Geb and Nut, and the brother and husband of Isis, goddess of the Earth and Moon, who represented the female productive force in nature. According to a version of the story recorded around ad 100 by the Greek writer Plutarch, Osiris, as King of Egypt, found his people plunged in barbarism and taught them law, agriculture, religion, and other blessings of civilization. He was murdered by his evil brother, Set, who tore the body to pieces and scattered the fragments. Isis found and buried his scattered remains, however, and each burial place was thereafter revered as sacred ground. Their son Horus, sired by a temporarily regenerated Osiris, avenged his father’s death by killing Set and then ascended the throne. Osiris lived on in the underworld as the ruler of the dead but, through Horus, he was also regarded as the source of renewed life.

I will include the link :---
http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569502/Isis_(mythology).html
Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 6

The one that drowned cross the red sea chasing the children of Isreal!! I believe his name was Pharoh, or maybe Ramses

Answer 7

Thoth
He is self created, the God of scholars and magic. He has a book that tells all the secrets of magic and you will go completly insane if you read it.
Cool huh?

Answer 8

Nut = Night.
Mother Night was very important to creation.

Answer 9

Best in what way? I like cats, so Sekhmet or Bast get my vote!

Answer 10

bast,
she was the protector of women and cats