some one in the class asked me..
2007-10-01 05:12:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
There were many Egyptian gods...
Amun
Anubis
Aten
Bastet
Bes
Geb
Hathor
Horus
Isis
Nun
Osiris
Ptah
Ra
Seth
Thoth
Thats the only ones I can remember...there are more.
2007-10-01 05:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Egyptians were polytheistic so there were many gods. The most efficent way to learn these would be to google them. However, The gods osirus, Isis, Horus, and Seth were not a part of the original set of gods. They were added to the religon at a later time period after the cult of osirus became a popular group. This addition helped stabilize the society because of the family oriented message within the story.
Also Egypt was later changed to a monotheistic society under the regin of pharoah Amenhotep IV. He changed the name of the sun god, Ra, to Aten and said the people were not worthy enough to even worship the god. Amenhotep changed his own name to Akhenaten and said that the people must worship him and his wife, Nefertiti, who would in turn worship Aten for them. The people hated this because they no longer had a personal relationship with their god. After the death of Akhenaten this religion was dissolved by Tutankhamun (King Tut), and the polytheistic culture returned.
2007-10-01 14:39:54 · answer #2 · answered by jon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Egyptians had a whole host of different gods..
Osiris - god of death and rebirth
Isis - wife of Osiris, carer of women and children
Anubis - god of the dead (he's the one with the head of a dog/jackal that appears quite a lot in movies)
The one I like is Ptah - by speaking the name of all the things in the world he made them exist!
There are a lot more that the Ancient Egyptians worshipped for things like protecting the Pharoh and controlling water supplies
2007-10-01 12:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by Moose 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since it would too long to name everybody i ll just name 2 who i think are very interesting. Osairis and Isis. Osairis is a very humane god who is killed by his evil step-brother Seth, Isis, his wife griefs for him so much that she asks the god of underwold Toth to resurect him. Toth replies that he can't resurrect him for ever, but he can be resurrected once a year in order to see Isis and spend time with her. Thats how the Ancient Egyptians explained the change of seasons. Ressurrection of Osiris coinciding with spring and his death falling upon late autumn.
2007-10-01 13:33:05 · answer #4 · answered by IggySpirit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ra, Horus and Isis were three of the best-known, but the Egyptians had dozens of gods.
2007-10-01 12:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In anceint Egypt, many, many Gods and deities existed...majour ones...and many local ones. To give a few: Amon , Anubis, Best Geb, Nut, Horus, Isis, Osiris, Ptah, Ra, Set , Thoth.
The trinity of Osiris (the father), Isis (the mother) and Horus (the son) is equated by secularists to the Christian trinity...the Father, the Son and holey Spirit. It is also a myth of love and revenge.
Here is a list of the most famouse and popular ones:
1. AMON, the hidden one and the creator.
2. ANUBIS, the jaqckal and God of enballming, tomb-caretaker and the watcher over the dead.
3. ATON, the sun-disk worshiped during the time of pharoah, akhenaton.
4. BAST, the black cat and Godess and protector of the pharoah.
5. GEB, God of the Earth.
6. HAPY, God of the Nile, representing life and fertility.
7. ISIS, Goddess of magical power and healing.
8. HORUS, the falcon-headed God, son of ISIS and God of Upper Egypt.
9. KHNUM, creator and God of the inundation.
10. MUT, the primordial water of the consmos from which the cosmos emerged.
11. NEKHBET, the white vulture and protector pof the Egyptian royalties.
12. NEPHTHYs, Goddess of death, sister of Isis amd nursing mother of HORUS
13. NUT, Goddess of heavens and the sky.
14.OSIRIS, God of the underworld, Father of HORUS and husband of ISIS.
15. RA, the creator of deities represented by the SUN.
16. SEKHMET, Goddess of distruction and war.
17. SET, God of storms, evil and desert and brother of OSIRIS.
18. SHU, God of the wind.
19. THOTH, the Ibis and god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy and magic.
The list goes on and on to include other local deities...SEBECK, the crocadile God, the scarab, etc.
2007-10-02 17:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by Aadel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well look it up on Google and/or Wikipedia. But you might want to use the phrase Egyptian dieties or pantheon.
2007-10-01 12:16:52 · answer #7 · answered by Sinclair 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of them is Ra,the sun god,as a start point.
2007-10-01 12:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by shane c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/egyptian-mythology.php
2007-10-01 12:19:48 · answer #9 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋