Names Of Egyptian Gods And Goddesses Flashcards

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The King of the Gods with an ostrich plucked hat

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Amun

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The God of the dead

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Anubis

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The creator of all of the Gods and the first God to exist

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Atum

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The Goddess of cats and protection

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Bastet or Bast

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The Goddess of the protection of pregnant women, newborn babies and family

A dwarf with lion and human features

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Bes

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God of the Earth.
Brother and Husband of Nut, the Goddess of the sky.
Father of Osiris, Isis, Nepthys and Seth.
His laughter makes earthquakes.

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Geb

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A potbellied God of Innundation.

He brings the flood every year.

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Hapy

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The Goddess of Love and Joy.
Wife of Horus.
Has cow ears.

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Hathor

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The King of the living.
Fought with Seth to be ruler of the living.
Son of Isis and Osiris.
Lost one of his eyes, but got it back.

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Horus

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Goddess of protective spells.

Wife of Osiris, daughter of Geb and mother of Horus.

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Isis

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God of creation, rebirth and the movement of the Sun.

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Khepri

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God of creation and Innundation

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Khnum

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The Goddess of truth, justice and harmony.

Daughter of Ra.

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Ma’at

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The protective Goddess of the dead.
Sister of Isis and Osiris.
Wife and sister of Seth.
Mother of Anubis.

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Nepthys

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The God which is the waters of chaos.

The only thing that existed on Earth before land.

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Nun

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The sky Goddess.
Wife and sister of Geb, the God of the earth.
Mother of Isis, Nepthys, Osiris and Seth.
Every day it was believed that the Goddess swallowed Ra, the sun God, and gave birth to him in the morning.

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Nut

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The God of death, resurrection, fertility a and the Underworld.
The husband and brother of Isis.
The brother of Nepthys and Seth.

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Osiris

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The God of craftsman.

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Ptah

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The sun God.

A God with a hawk head and a sun disk as a headdress.

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Ra

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The Goddess of war.

The Goddess which has a head of a lioness.

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Sekhmet

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The Goddess of writing and measurements.

The God has a star headdress and wears a panther skin dress.

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Seshat

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The God of chaos.
The brother of Osiris and Isis.
The husband and brother of Nepthys.
He murdered Osiris.
Battled with Horus to be the ruler of the living.
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Seth

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The God of Air.
Separates Nut, the sky Goddess, from Geb the earth God.
Husband of Tefnut.
Father of Geb and Nut.

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Shu

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The God of the Nile.

Has a crocodile head.

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Sobek

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The Goddess who protects pregnant women.

A pregnant Hippopotamus with the tail of a crocodile holding a crutch.

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Tawaret

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The God of moisture.
Wife of Shu.
Mother of Geb and Nut.

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Tefnut

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God of wisdom, knowledge and writing.
Has a head of an Ibis.
Gave Egyptians the gift of hieroglyphic writing.

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Thoth