| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Nit" | Egypt | Goddess of weaving, war, hunting and the Red Crown, creator deity, mother of Ra. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Nun" | Egypt | Primordial god. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, he is coupled with the goddess NAUNET and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog. No cult is addressed to Nun but he is typically depicted holding aloft the solar barque or the Sun disc. He may appear greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon. Nun is otherwise symbolized by the presence of a sacred cistern or lake as in the sanctuaries of Karnak and Dendara.... |
| Goddess name "Nut" | Egypt | Goddess of the sky and the heavens. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Onuris [Greek]" | Egypt | God of hunting and war. Onuris is first known from This, near Abydos in Upper Egypt. In later times his main cult center was at Samannud in the Nile delta. His consort is the lion goddess Mekhit. Onuris is generally depicted in human form as a bearded figure wearing a crown with four plumes and wielding a spear or occasionally holding a rope. He is sometimes accompanied by Mekhit in iconography. Seen as a hunter who caught and slew the enemies of RE, the Egyptian Sun god, some legends place him close to the battle between HORUS and SETH. In clåśśical times, Onuris became largely syncretized with the Greek war god ARES. Also Anhuret (Egyptian).... |
| Goddess name "Pakhet" | Egypt | Bast and Sekhmet were similar feline war gods, one for Upper Egypt and the other for Lower Egypt. Where the two groups met, at Beni Hasan, the similarity of the goddesses lead to a new merged form known as Pakhet. |
| Goddess name "Pakhet" | Egypt | Goddess of hunting. Known locally from the eastern desert regions with a sanctuary at Beni Hasan.... |
| Goddess name "Polydamna" | Egypt | Goddess of healing and herbs Egypt |
| Goddess name "Qenqentet" | Egypt | Goddess of memory Egypt |
| Goddess name "Qetesh" | Egypt | Goddess of love and beauty. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Quades (the holy one)" | Western Semitic | Fertility goddess. probably originating in Syria. She epitomizes female sexuality and eroticism in the mold of ASTARTE. She was adopted by Egypt with the fertility gods MIN and RESEP and became partly åśśociated with the goddess HATHOR. She is usually depicted nude standing on the back of a lion (see also INANA and NINHURSAG A) between Min to whom she offers a lotus blossom, and Resep for whom she bears snakes. Her cult followed the typically ancient Near Eastern pattern of a sacred marriage carried out by her votary priestesses and their priests or kings.... |
| Goddess name "Rat" | Egyptain | Mother of Maat and a goddess of wisdom and knowledge. Egyptain |
| Goddess name "Renenutet" | Egypt | A goddess of fortune, grain, milk, harvest, nursing babies Renenutet |
| Goddess name "Renenutet" | Egypt | Snake goddess. Also possessing fertility connotations, she guarded the pharaoh in the form of a cobra. There is some evidence that she enjoyed a cult in the Faiyum, the highly fertile region of the Nile valley. She is depicted either in human form or as a hooded cobra, in which case she bears close åśśociation with the goddess WADJET who is embodied in the uraeus. Her gaze has the power to conquer enemies. In her capacity as a fertility goddess she suckles infant rulers and provides good crops and harvests, linked in this capacity to OSIRIS and the more ancient grain god NEPER. She is also a magical power residing in the linen robe of the pharaoh and in the linen bandages with which he is swathed in death. At Edfu Renenutet takes the title lady of the robes. In the Greco-Roman period, she became adopted by the Greeks as the goddess Hermouthis and was syncretized with ISIS.... |
| Goddess name "Renpet" | Egypt | The 'Mistress of Eternity' and a goddess of fertility, spring and youth. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Reret" | Egypt | Goddess of pigs. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Safekh aabut" | Egypt | A goddess of knowledge |
| Goddess name "Safekh-Aubi" | Egypt | Stellar goddess who served to measure time and is called the misstress of the house of Books. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Sakhemet aka Sachmet" | Egypt | Sakhet and Sakhmet, originally the war goddess of Upper Egypt. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was also known by some cults to be a daughter of the ancient Sun god Ra. Egypt |
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