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Aa Maakhuer
Description: A lion god of truthful speech

Aabit
Description: A singing Goddess.
Patron: Music, song, voice, arts.

Aah
Description: A moon God.

Aahmes Nefertari
Description: A protector/ punisher of humans elevated to goddesshood

Aai
Description: These gods are the three who watch over Ra in the 9th hour of the night. This is when Ra meets the monster Apep. It is thier duty to protect the sun so that in may rise in the morning. They hold Apep back from the Sun boat with a rope called Ai. They then spear Apep.

Abtu
Description: One of two Life-size fish who swim before the boat of the sun god Re warning of dangers

Abu
Description: The guardian of Elephantine, he is a light and vegetation deity.

Adim
Patron: Floods.

Afura
Description: Body of the sun god of night

Ahat
Description: She is the "cosmic cow" who nurses and protects Ra

Ahemait
Description: An underworld goddess who eats the souls of the unworthy

Aheramenmthoou
Description: The god of thunder, night, storms, wind, landslides & tidal waves

Ahti
Description: Goddess with a head of a wasp body of a hippo

Ahy
Description: very young man with short cut hair except for his long curly hair-lock which hung down over his cheek, meaning he was still a child. He wore a small diadem with the cobra Buto. In his right hand he held a decorated sistrum, which was a common rattle-instrument to make rhythmic sounds Child of Hathor and Horus.
Patron: god and protector of music of musicians

Akebiu
Description: "The Wailers" The four crying gods in the eleventh hour of night who cry for the deceased and the souls that have been devoured in judgement.

Aken
Description: Custodian of the ferryboat in the Underworld; needs to be woken up by Mahaf.

Aker
Description: Earth god.
Patron: Earth, fields, poisons, anecdotes, weaving.

Akert khentet auset
Description: A book of the dead deity

Akussa
Description: Goddess of Sunset

Amathaunta
Description: Goddess of the Sea.

Amaunet
Description: Mother Goddess. Wife of Amon.
Patron: mother and/or fertility goddess

Amenhptep
Description: God of Architecture, Buildings and Construction Work

Ament
Description: Goddess of the Underworld
Patron: She greeted all dead people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living.

Amentet
Description: West and Western areas in the form of a person.

Amesemi
Description: Wife of Apedemak. Never worshiped in Egypt. Nubian goddess. Wears a crown shaped like a falcon or a falcon standing on a crescent moon. Protective goddess

Am-heh
Description: threatening Underworld god whose name means 'Devourer of Millions'. He dwells in a Lake of Fire. Has the face of a hunting dog and an appetite for sacrifices.

Ami
Description: Fire God.
Patron: Fire.

Ami-hemf
Description: He is a mighty 50 ft long serpent. He lives upon the mountain Bakhau, the mountain of the sunrise. He is the keeper of the flames of Ra.

Ami Neter
Description: A singing god.
Patron: Winds, song.

Ami Pi
Description: A lion god.

.:Ammit:.
Description: He ate the hearts of unworthy souls.

Ammut
Description: a demon with the head of crocodile, the torso of a leopard and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus an underworld goddess that eats the hearts of the evil
Patron: destruction of the souls of the wicked.

Amn
Description: A goddess of justice

Amon
Description: God of fertility. Phallic deity sometimes pictured with the head of a ram and other times pictured as a man with a crown with two tall straight plumes.

Amsit
Description: Son of Horus
Patron: Keeper of Embalmed Livers.

Amsu
Description: A god of fertility.

Amu
Description: Dawn God.

Amunet
Description: Goddess of Mystery and light.

Amutnen
Description: Goddess of Milk Cows.

.:Anat:.
Description: fertility, sexual love, hunting and war. Daughter of Ra.

Andjety
Description: A god of the underworld.

Anentet
Description: Egyptian goddess of the West. The west was considered to be the Underworld.

Anet
Description: One of two Life-size fish who swim before the boat of the sun god Re warning of dangers

Anezti
Description: A god of the ninth Nome of Lower Egypt.

Angit
Description: With Satit and Khnemu, the great triad of Elephantine and the First Cataract

Anhouri
Description: A minor god

Anhur
Description: Violent side of Re
Patron: War, Sun and the sky.

Ani
Description: god of the new moon

Ankt
Description: War Goddess

.:Anqet:.
Description: Water Goddess of the Nile Cataracts. Her symbol was the cowrie shell. Pictured as a woman donning a tall plumed crown. Also has been depicted as having four arms. Daughter of Re.
Patron: Producer and giver of life, water.

Anouke
Description: Elderly Goddess of War

.:Anput:.
Description: goddess of the 17th Nome of Upper Egypt, who was depicted as a woman wearing the jackal standard of her nome or a woman with the head of a jackal. She was believed to have been the wife of Anubis, and possibly the mother of Kebechet.

Anti
Description: Depicted as a falcon or with a falcon's head, often standing on a crescent-shaped boat.

Anubis
Description: Messenger from the gods to humans. Pictured with the head of a jackal or dog, or as a dark colored jackal. He, with Maat, weighed human souls for truth.
Patron: Wisdom, intelligence, death, embalming, endings, truth, justice, surgery, hospital stays, finding lost things, anesthetics, medicine, journeys, protection, boats, diplomacy, astral travel, cemeteries.

.:Anukis:.
Description: Birth Goddess Daughter of Re.

.:Apedemak:.
Description: Warrior Lion god protector of the royal family Son of Ra
Patron: Lion of the south Strong of arm

Apep
Description: Demon enemy of the Sun. Pictured as a snake.
Patron: Darkness, storm, night, the Underworld, death, eclipses.

Apesh
Description: A tortoise god of night, evil, & the powers of darkness

Apit
Description: A goddess that protects pregnant women, children, nursing mothers & justice

Apophis
Description: Demon of darkness

Apuat
Description: A jackal headed god who helps the soul choose it's next incarnation

Aput
Description: Messenger God.

Arensnuphis
Description: Lion god, a benign deity

Ari Hes Nefer
Description: This is a protector deity with a human body and a lion head. His statues were placed in/next to the doorways of homes, tombs and palaces to protect the living and the dead from evil spirits.

As
Description: A local fertility god

.:Asbit:.
Description: Fire Goddess.
Patron: Fire.

Aseb
Description: Fire God.
Patron: Fire.

.:Ash:.
Description: God of the dessert

Ashkit
Description: Goddess of the Winds.

Ashu
Description: Water God.

Aso
Description: A goddess of justice

Astarte
Description: Daughter or Re Warrior Goddess

Asthartet
Description: represented as a lioness-headed woman. In Egyptian texts,

Asthartet is referred to as 'mistress of horses, lady of the chariot, dweller in Apollionopolis Magna (Edfu). destructive goddess of war, controlling the maddened steeds that drew her chariot over the battlefield. . She was also, however, worshipped as a moon goddess, which suggests a more tranquil and compassionate side to her nature.

Asten
Description: Companion of Thoth

At-em
Description: Mother goddess of all-devouring time. A goddess of time

Atet
Description: She was reputed to have killed Apep, the great serpent of darkness, in the form of a cat.

.:Athor:.
Description: goddess of light. Daughter of Ra.

Atum
Description: The primeval sun god and creator of the world

Aua
Description: God of Gifts.

Auf
Description: Aspect of the Sun god Ra. Shown as a ram-headed man wearing the solar disk.
Patron: Peace, rest, sleep, courage.

Auit
Description: Goddess of Nurses and Children.

Auka
Description: In Egyptian mythos, the wife of the god Neph.

Ausaas
Description: wife of Herakhty (Horus).

Auset
Description: The goddess of Sirius

Autyeb
Description: A goddess of happiness, Joy

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