Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Anuket" | Egypt | Goddess of water and of rivers. Egypt |
Goddess name "Anukis" | Egypt | Birth goddess and of the cataracts of the lower Nile. Egypt |
God name "Anzety" | Egypt | God and king of Busiris. Egypt |
God name "Apedemak" | Sudanese / Meroe | war god. An Egyptianized deity, his main sanctuary was contained in a vast religious complex and center of pilgrimage at Musawwarat-es-Sufra, north of the sixth Nile cataract. Sacred animals include cattle and the African elephant. Depicted with the head of a lion and a human body, holding a scepter embellished with a seated lion at the tip.... |
God name "Apesh" | Egypt | Tortoise god of night, evil, and the powers of darkness. Egypt |
Goddess name "Apet" | Egypt | Goddess who protects pregnant women, children, nursing mothers and justice. Egypt |
God name "Apis" | Egyptian | Apis the Bull of Memphis, is called the greatest of gods, and the god of all nations, while others regard him more in the light of a symbol of some great divinity. Egyptian |
Goddess name "Apit" | Egypt | Mother Goddess, nursing mother. Egypt |
God name "Aput" | Egypt | Messenger God. Egypt |
God name "Ari Au Tchesf" | Egypt | A lion god |
Goddess name "Armkis [Greek]" | Egypt / Upper | Birth goddess. Minor deity with cult centers in lower Nubia and at Elephantine. She is variously the daughter of RE, and of KHNUM and SATIS. Anukis lives in the cataracts of the Lower Nile. Her portrait appears in the Temple of Rameses II at Beit-et-Wali where she suckles the pharaoh, suggesting that she is connected with birth and midwifery, but she also demonstrates a malignant aspect as a strangler (see HATHOR). Her sacred animal is the gazelle. Depicted anthropomorphically wearing a turban (modius) with ostrich feathers. Also Anuket (Egyptian).... |
God name "Arrinsnuphis [Greek]" | Egypt / Nubian | Local god of uncertain affinities. Probably significant circa 700 BC to AD 400 as an attendant of ISIS. He appeared in Egyptian sanctuaries during the Greco-Roman period and seems to have been of... |
God name "As" | Egypt | Local fertility god. Egypt |
God name "As" | Egypt / western Sahara | Local fertility god. Known from the Early Dynastic Period. By inference a benign god of oases and other fertile areas of the desert. Epithets include lord of Libya. Depicted anthropomorphically, occasionally hawk-headed.... |
Goddess name "Asbit" | Egypt | Goddess of fire. Egypt |
God name "Aseb" | Egypt | Fire God. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ashkit" | Egypt | Goddess of the winds. Egypt |
God name "Asira" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local god. Mentioned only in name by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, worshiped at Taima and influenced strongly by Egyptian culture.See also SALM.... |