Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Aa Maakhuer" | Egypt | Lion god of truthful speech: "he whose voice, or speech, is right and true"; Book of the Dead. Egypt |
God name "Aam" | Egyptian | A name for the god Tem, a form of the Sun god in the city of Annu. Book of the Dead åśśociates Aam with the Sun god Ra. Egyptian |
Deity name "Akert khentet auset[s]" | Egypt | Book of the Dead deity. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ammut (devouress of the dead)" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A significant deity who allegedly consumes the dead if their hearts are found weighed down with guilt in the Judgment Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. Ammut has a fearsome aspect and sits alongside forty-two juror gods named in the Book of the Dead. Depicted with the head of a crocodile, the trunk and fore-limbs of a lion and the hind part of a hippopotamus.See also THOTH and MAAT.... |
Goddess name "Hedetet" | Egypt | She is the scorpion goddess found in the Book of the Dead |
Book name "Isa - Soma - Ulu'tuyar - Ulu Toyo'n - Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n" | Egyptian | Ulu Toyo'n "Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, From the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
King name "Leviathan" | Egypt | The crocodile, or some extinct sea monster, described in the Book of Job. It sometimes in Scripture designates Pharaoh, king of Egypt, where the word is translated "dragon." |
Book name "Oril'o or Orillo" | Egypt | Oril'o or Orillo (in Orlando Furioso, Book viii.). A magician and robber who lived at the mouth of the Nile. He was the son of an imp and fairy. When any limb was lopped off he restored it by his magic power, and when his head was cut off he put it on his neck again. |
Goddess name "Safekh-Aubi" | Egypt | Stellar goddess who served to measure time and is called the misstress of the house of Books. Egypt |
Deities name "Sebek" | Egyptian | Sebeq or Sebeq-Ra, the crocodile-headed deity. In The Book of the Dead Sebek is named together with three other deities as dwelling on the mount of Sunrise, helping Horus to be reborn daily. He is represented as giving the eyes to the deceased and åśśisting the pilgrim to be reborn. Egyptian |
Goddess name "Sesat" | Egypt | Goddess of Books and knowledge Egypt |
God name "Sobek" | Egypt | Crocodile god. In the Book of the Dead, he åśśists in the birth of Horus and helps to destroy Seth. Egypt |
God name "Sulanuth" | Hebrew | A monster in the sea ordered by God "to come up and go into Egypt, with arms ten cubits in length . . . and she went upon the roofs and uncovered the rafting and cut them and stretched forth her arm into the house and removed the lock and the bolt and opened the houses of Egypt and the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians" Book of Jasher |
Goddess name "Taurt" | Egypt | Rert or Rertu, hippopotamus goddess mentioned in the Judgment scene from The Egyptian Book of the Dead called the Eater of the Dead - the Devourer of the Unjustified. Egypt |
God name "Thoth" | Egypt | Tchehuti or Tehuti. Author of the Book of the Dead was believed by the Egyptians to have been the heart and mind of the Creator, who was in very early times in Egypt called by the natives "Pautti," and by foreigners "Ra." Thoth was also the "tongue" of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great god, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence. His words were almighty and once uttered never remained without effect. |
Book name "Ulu'tuyar" | Egyptian | Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, Opener of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven From the EgyptianBook of the Dead |
Book name "Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n" | Egyptian | Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, Opener of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven Egyptian Book of the Dead |