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additional egyptian gods not mentioned in series

Aken - Ferryman to the underworld.

Amun - the hidden one, a local creator deity later married to Mut after rising in importance. Champion to the poor or troubled.

Amunet - female aspect of Amun. The primordial concept of air in the Ogdoad cosmogony; was depicted as a cobra snake or a snake-headed woman.

Anuket - Goddess of the Nile River, the child of Satis and among the Elephantine triad of deities; temple on the Island of Seheil, giver of life and fertility, gazelle-headed.

Atum - a creator deity, and the setting sun.

Bat - represented the cosmos and the essence of the soul (Ba), cow Goddess who gave authority to the king, cult originated in Hu and persisted widely until absorbed as an aspect of Hathor after the eleventh dynasty; associated with the sistrum and the ankh.

Hapi - God embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility.

Heget - Goddess of childbirth and fertility, who breathed life into humans at birth, represented as a frog or a frog-headed woman.

Henet - represented by the pelican or a pelican-headed goddess, and referred to in the Pyramid Texts as the 'mother of the king', associated with safe passage in the underworld, as well as symbolising protection against snakes.

Iusaaset - the great one who comes forth, the Goddess who was called the mother and grandmother of all of the deities and later, the "shadow" of Atum or Atum-Ra.

Khepry - the scarab beetle, the embodiment of the dawn.

Khnum - a creator deity, God of the inundation.

Kuk - the personification of darkness that often took the form of a frog-headed God, whose consort or female form was the snake-headed Kauket.

Maahes - he who is true beside her, a lion prince, son of Bast in Lower Egypt and of Sekhmet in Upper Egypt and sharing their natures, his father varied—being the current chief male deity of the time and region, a God of war, weather, and protector of matrilineality, his cult arrived during the New Kingdom era perhaps from Nubia and was centred in Taremu and Per-Bast, associated with the high priests of Amon, the knife, lotuses, and devouring captives.

Mafdet - she who runs swiftly, early deification of legal justice (execution) as a cheetah, ruling at judgment hall in Duat where enemies of the pharaoh were decapitated with Mafdet's claw; alternately, a cat, a mongoose, or a leopard protecting against vermin, snakes, and scorpions; the bed upon which royal mummies were placed in murals.

Menhit - Goddess of war - depicted as a lioness-goddess and therefore becoming associated with Sekhmet.

Meretseger - Goddess of the valley of the kings, a cobra-goddess, sometimes triple-headed, dweller on the top of or the personification of the pyramid-shaped mountain, Al-Qurn, which overlooked the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.

Meskhenet - Goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each person's Ka, a part of their soul, thereby associated with fate.

Menthu - an ancient god of war - nomad - represented strength, virility, and victory.

Min - represented in many different forms, but was often represented in male human form, shown with an erect penis which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm holding a flail; by the New Kingdom he was fused with Amun (Amen) in the deity Min-Amun-kamutef, Min-Amun-bull of his mother (Hathor), and his shrine was crowned with a pair of cow horns.

Mnevis - was the sacred bull of Heliopolis, later associated with Ra as the offspring of the solar cow deity, and possibly also with Min; when Akhenaten abandoned Amun (Amen) in favour of the Aten he claimed that he would maintain the Mnevis cult, which may have been because of its solar associations.

Mut - mother, was originally a title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged, as was Naunet in the Ogdoad cosmogony, however, the distinction between motherhood and cosmic water lead to the separation of these identities and Mut gained aspects of a creator Goddess.

Naunet - a Goddess, the primal waters from which all arose, similar to Mut and later closely related to Nu.

Pakhet - she who tears, deity of merged aspects of Sekhmet and Bast, cult center at Beni Hasan where north and south met - lioness protector, see Speos Artemidos.

Qebui - The "Lord of the North Wind," associated with the lands beyond the third cataract (i.e. Kush and the land of the Modern Sudan).

Ra-Horakhty - God of both sky and Sun, a combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be god of the Rising Sun.

Reshep - war God who was originally from Syria.

Satis - the Goddess who represented the flooding of the Nile River, ancient war, hunting, and fertility Goddess, mother of the Nile, Anuket, associated with water, depicted with a bow and arrows, and a gazelle or antelope horned, and sometimes, feathered crown.

Seker - God of death.

Seshat - Goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics depicted as a scribe.

Swenet - Goddess of the ancient city on the border of southern Egypt at the Nile River, trade in hieroglyphs.

Tatenen (also called Tenen or Tatjenen)-Ancient Nature God. Later combined with Ptah as Ptah-tenen.

Wadjet - the Goddess, Snake Goddess of lower Egypt, depicted as a cobra, patron and protector of Egypt and the pharaoh, always shown on crown of the pharaohs; later joined by the image of Nekhbet after north and south united; other symbols: eye, snake on staff.

Wadj-wer - fertility God and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta.

Wepwawet - jackal God of upper Egypt.

Wosret - a localized guardian Goddess, protector of the young God Horus, an early consort of Amun, who was later superseded by Mut.


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