Major Deities
- Aker – A god of the earth and the horizon[3]
- Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom[4]
- Anhur – A god of war and hunting[5][6][7]
- Anubis– God of the dead. Carries the dead to the judgement place of the Underworld
- Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten[8]
- Atum – A creator god and solar deity, first god of the Ennead[9]
- Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a heron[10]
- Geb – An earth god and member of the Ennead[11]
- Hapi – Personification of the Nile flood[12]
- Horus – A major god, usually shown as a falcon or as a human child, linked with the sky, the sun, kingship, protection, and healing. Often said to be the son of Osiris and Isis.[13]
- Khepri – A solar creator god, often treated as the morning form of Ra and represented by a scarab beetle[14]
- Khnum (Khnemu) – A ram god, the patron deity of Elephantine, who was said to control the Nile flood and give life to gods and humans[15][16]
- Khonsu – A moon god, son of Amun and Mut[17]
- Maahes (Mahes, Mihos) – A lion god, son of Bastet[18][19][6]
- Montu – A god of war and the sun, worshipped at Thebes[20]
- Nefertum – God of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time. Son of Ptah and Sekhmet.[21]
- Nemty – Falcon god, worshipped in Middle Egypt,[22] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods[23]
- Neper – A god of grain[24]
- Osiris – god of death and resurrection who rules the underworld and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls[25]
- Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis[26]
- Ra – The sun god
- Set – An ambivalent god, characterized by violence, chaos, and strength, connected with the desert. Mythological murderer of Osiris and enemy of Horus, but also a supporter of the king.[27]
- Shu – Embodiment of wind or air, a member of the Ennead[28]
- Sobek – Crocodile god, worshipped in the Faiyum and at Kom Ombo[29]
- Sopdu – A god of the sky and of Egypt’s eastern border regions[30]
- Thoth – A moon god, and a god of writing and scribes, and patron deity of Hermopolis[31]
- Wadj-wer – Personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile Delta[
Major male and female forms
- Anubis/Anput – The god/goddess of embalming and protector of the dead[57]
- Heh – Personification of infinity and a member of the Ogdoad[58]
- Kek – The god of Chaos and Darkness, as well as being the concept of primordial darkness. Kek’s female form is known as Kauket.
- Nu (Nun) – Personification of the formless, watery disorder from which the world emerged at creation and a member of the Ogdoad[59]
- Ra (Re) – The foremost Egyptian sun god, involved in creation and the afterlife. Mythological ruler of the gods, father of every Egyptian king, and the patron god of Heliopolis.[60]
- Tatenen – Personification of the first mound of earth to emerge from chaos in ancient Egyptian creation myths
Minor Male or female forms
Lesser-known deities
- Ȧakhu – God of the fifth Ảat[154]
- Ảakhu – A ram headed god[154]
- Ảakhu-ḥetch-t – A god of the dead[155]
- Ảakhu-ra – A singing god of dawn[155]
- Ảakhu-sa-ta-f – A warrior god[155]
- Ảakhui – A god with two lotus scepters[154]
- Ȧmi-beq – A god of the dead[156]
- Ảmi-haf – A god who has a harpoon[157]
- Ami-Ḥe-t-Serqet-Ka-hetep-t – A god[157]
- Ảmi-kar – A singing ape god[158]
- Ảmi-keḥau – A god[158]
- Ảmi-naut-f – A serpent god[156]
- Ảmi-nehţ-f – A god[157]
- Ảmi-neter – A singing god[157]
- Ảmi-Nu – A sky god[157]
- Ȧmi-Pe – A lion god[156]
- Ảmi-reţ – A god[157]
- Ảmi-seḥseḩ – A god[158]
- Ảmi-sekhet-f – A god of his domain[158]
- Ảmi-sepa-f – A god[158]
- Ảmi-suḥt-f – A god of the ninth Ảat[158]
- Ảmi-ta – A serpent god[158]
- Ảmi-ut – God of the ninth day of the month[156]
- Ảnmut-făbesh – A star god[159]
- Antywy – A god of the tenth nome of Upper Egypt[160] God of the sixth hour of night.[161]
- Ảri – The creative god[162]
- Ảri-em-ăua – God of the sixth hour of night[162]
- Ảri-en-ȧb-f – A blue eyed god[162]
- Ảri-ḥetch-f – A light god[162]
- Ảri-ren-f-tehesef – God of the tenth day of the month[162]
- Ảri-tchet-f – A god of the ninth day of the month[162]
- Ảrit-Ảmen – A god[162]
- Athpi – A god of dawn[163]
- Ati – A god[163]
- Ba – A ram god associated with virility[75]
- Ba-ảakhu-hā-f – A ram headed god[75]
- Ba-em-uār-ur – A god[75]
- Ba-ta – An ape god[75]
- Ba-tau – A god worshipped at Cynopolis[75]
- Ba-utcha-hāu-f – A ram-headed god[75]
- Ḥeb – A god[164]
- Ḥun-sāḥu – A god[165]
- Ḥutchai – The god of the west wind[164]
- Khenti-en-Sa-t – A star god[166]
- Khenti-heh-f – A knife-eyed god who guarded the tomb of Osiris[166]
- Khenti-ḥenthau – A god[166]
- Khenti-Ḥet Ȧnes – A god[166]
- Khenti-kha-t-ảnes – A knife-eyed god who guarded Osiris[166]
- Khenti-Khas – A god who protected noses of the dead[166]
- Maa-ảb-khenti-ảḥ-t-f – A god[167]
- Maa-ảtht-f – A god of the fourteenth Ảat[167]
- Maa-en-Rā – An ape doorkeeper god[167]
- Maa-f-ur – A god[167]
- Maa-ḥa-f – A ferry god[167]
- Maa-mer-f – God of the twenty-sixth day of the month[167]
- Men-t – A god[168]
- Meni – A god[168]
- Menu – A god of the fifth month[168]
- Menu-nesu-Ḩeru – A warrior bull god[168]
- Menu-qeṭ – God of the first Ảat[168]
- Meţ-en-Ảsảr – A serpent god[169]
- Meţ-ḥer – A god of the dead[169]
- Meṭes – A god[169]
- Meţes – A doorkeeper god[169]
- Meţes-ảb – An ibis headed god[169]
- Meṭes-neshen – A god[169]
- Meţi – A hawk headed god[169]
- Meţni – A hippopotamus god of evil[169]
- Meţu-ta-f – A god[169]
- Neb – A goose god[170]
- Neb ảa – A singing god of dawn[170]
- Neb ảmakh – A god who towed the boat of Ảf[170]
- Neb ankh – A singing god of dawn[171]
- Neb āq-t – A jackal god[172]
- Neb Kheper-Khenti-Ṭuat – A Maāt god[173]
- Neb Khert-ta – A star god[173]
- Neb pāt – A god[172]
- Neb seb-t – A god[173]
- Neb Uast – A god of the boat of Pakhit[172]
- Neb-Un – A god[172]
- Neb user – A ram-headed god[172]
- Neb utchat-ti – A serpent god with human legs[172]
- Nebti – A god[170]
- Nekenher – A frightening god[145]
- Neter – A serpent god[168]
- Neterti – A god in Ṭuat[168]
- Neter bah – A god[168]
- Neter neferu – A god[174]
- Neter-hāu – Nile god[174]
- Neter-ka-qetqet – A god who guarded Osiris[174]
- Neter-kha – God of one thousand years[174]
- Netrit-ta-meh – An axe god[174]
- Netrit-Then – An axe god[174]
- Serq – A serpent god[175]
- Unnti – The god of existence[176]
- Untả – A light god[176]
- Up – An ape god[177]
- Up-hai – God of the dead[177]
- Up-shāt-taui – A god[177]
- Up-uatu – A singing god[177]
- Upi-sekhemti – A jackal-headed singing god[177]
- Upt-heka – Enchantment god[177]
- Upȧst – A light god[177]
- Upu – God of the serpent Shemti[177]
- Ur – A god[178]
- Ur-ȧres (Urȧrset) – A god of a boat[152]
- Ur-at – A god of Kher-Āḥa[178]
- Ur-heka – A god of Denderah[152]
- Ur-henhenu – A water god[152]
- Ur-henu – A water god[152]
- Ur-khert – A jackal god in the second Ảat[152]
- Ur-maati-f – A god[152]
- Ur-metuu-ḩer-ȧat-f – A god[152]
- Ur-peḥti – A doorkeeper god[152]
- Ur-peḩui-f – A god[152]
- Urrtȧ – A god
Lesser Known Male or Female Forms
- Medjed – A minor god from the Book of the Dead. “[179]
- Neb au-t-ȧb – A god or goddess in the Ṭuat
- Netrit fent – An axe god or goddess
Minor Deities
- Aani – A protector ape headed god[39]
- Aati – One of the 42 judges of the souls of the dead[39]
- Abu -Abu was an early Egyptian god of Light that was likely worshiped in the city of Elephantine.[62]
- Am-heh – A dangerous underworld god[63]
- Amenhotep I (Amenhetep I) – The second king of the eighteenth dynasty, deified[64]
- Amenhotep son of Hapu – A scribe and architect in the court of Amenhotep III, later deified for his wisdom[63]
- Amu-Aa – A god who accompanies Osiris during the second hour of the night[39]
- An-a-f – One of the 42 judges of the souls of the dead[39]
- An-hetep-f – One of the 42 judges of the souls of the dead[39]
- An-mut-f[39]
- An-tcher-f[39]
- Andjety (Anedjti, Anezti) – A god of the ninth nome of Upper Egypt[65]
- Ani – A god of festivals[39]
- Anti – A hawk god of Upper Egypt[16]
- Apedemak – A warlike lion god from Nubia who appears in some Egyptian-built temples in Lower Nubia[66]
- Apep (Apepi) – A serpent deity who personified malevolent chaos and was said to fight Ra in the underworld every night[67]
- Āpesh – A turtle god[68]
- Apis – A live bull worshipped as a god at Memphis and seen as a manifestation of Ptah[69]
- Arensnuphis – A Nubian deity who appears in Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia in the Greco-Roman era[70]
- Asclepius – A Greek god worshipped in Egypt at Saqqara
- Ash – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt[71]
- Astennu – A baboon god associated with Thoth.
- Ba – A god of fertility[19]
- Ba-Ra[39]
- Baal – Sky and storm god from Syria and Canaan, worshipped in Egypt during the New Kingdom[72]
- Babi – A baboon god characterized by sexuality and aggression[73]
- Banebdjedet – A ram god, patron of the city of Mendes[74]
- Ba-Pef – A little-known underworld deity; ram-headed god of the eighth hour[75][76]
- Bes – Apotropaic god, represented as a dwarf, particularly important in protecting children and women in childbirth[77]
- Buchis – A live bull god worshipped in the region around Thebes and a manifestation of Montu[78]
- Dedun (Dedwen) – A Nubian god, said to provide the Egyptians with incense and other resources that came from Nubia[79]
- Denwen – A serpent and dragon god[16]
- Djebuty – Tutelary god of Djeba[80]
- Djefa – God of abundance[81]
- Dionysus-Osiris – A life-death-rebirth god.
- Dua – God of toiletry and sanitation[19]
- Fa – A god of destiny[39]
- Fetket – A butler of Ra[6]
- Gengen Wer – A celestial goose god who guarded the celestial egg containing the life force[16]
- Ha – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt[12]
- Ḥapy (Hapi) – A son of Horus[82]
- Hapy-Wet – God of the Nile in heaven[39]
- Hardedef (Djedefhor) – Son of King Khufu who was deified after death because he wrote a book considered to be the work of a god[16]
- Harmachis (Hor-em-akhet) – Sphinx god[39]
- Harsomtus – A child god of Edfu[83]
- Haurun – A protector and healing god, originally a Canaanite god[16]
- Heka (Hike) – Personification of magic[84]
- Heneb – A god of grain[39]
- Henkhisesui – God of the east wind[39]
- Heru-Khu – A god in the fifth division of Tuat[39]
- Hery-sha-duat – Underworld god in charge of the fields of Tuat[39]
- Heryshaf – Ram god worshipped at Herakleopolis Magna[85]
- Hu – Personification of the authority of the spoken word[86]
- Iah (Aah, Yah) – A moon god[87][19][6]
- Ihy (Ihu) – A child deity born to Horus and Hathor, representing the music and joy produced by the sistrum[88][19]
- Imhotep – Architect and vizier to Djoser, eventually deified as a healer god[89]
- Jupiter-Amun – A Roman influenced god worshipped at the Siwa Oasis in Egypt[16]
- Kagemni – A vizier to Sneferu who wrote the Instructions of Kagemni, later deified[16]
- Khenti-Amenti(u)– A necropolis deity[90][39]
- Khenti-qerer[39]
- Khesfu – A god who carries a spear in the tenth division of Tuat[39]
- Khentekhtai (Khente-Khtai) – Crocodile god worshipped at Athribis[16]
- Kherty – A netherworld god, usually depicted as a ram[91]
- Kneph – A ram creator god[19]
- Mandulis – A Lower Nubian solar deity who appeared in some Egyptian temples[92]
- Mehen – A serpent god who protects the barque of Ra as it travels through the underworld[93]
- Mestȧ (Imset) – A son of Horus[82]
- Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them[94]
- Mnevis – A live bull god worshipped at Heliopolis as a manifestation of Ra[95]
- Nefer Hor – A son of Thoth[39]
- Neferhotep – Son of Hathor[83]
- Nefertum (Nefertem) – God of perfume who was an aspect of Atum, but later became a separate deity[16]
- Nehebu-Kau – A protective serpent god[96]
- Nun – God of the primeval waters[97]
- Panebtawy – A child god, son of Horus the Elder[6]
- Petbe – God of revenge[19]
- Peteese – Brother of Pihor who drowned in the Nile, later deified[16]
- Pihor – Brother of Peteese who drowned in the Nile, later deified[16]
- Ptah-hotep – Writer of a Wisdom Text, later deified[16]
- Qebeḥsenuf (Qebehsenuef) – A son of Horus[82]
- Qebui – God of the north winds[39]
- Ra-ateni[39]
- Rā-Ḥerakhty – A form of Ra in which he is joined with Horus.
- Reshep – A Syrian war god adopted into Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom, depicted with beard and the crown of Upper Egypt[98][99]
- Sah – Personification of the constellation Orion[16]
- Sebeg – Personification of the planet Mercury[100]
- Sebiumeker – Guardian god of procreation and fertility, he was a major god in Meroe, Kush[16]
- Sed – A jackal deity who protected kingship[16]
- Seker – God of the Memphite Necropolis and of the afterlife in general[101]
- Sekhemus – God of the fourth hour of Tuat[39]
- Sepa – A centipede god who protected people from snake bites[16]
- Sepes – A god who lived in a tree[39]
- Sepṭu – A bearded plume wearing god[99]
- Serapis – A Greco-Egyptian god from the Ptolemaic Period who fused traits of Osiris and Apis with those of several Greek gods. Husband of Isis who, like her, was adopted into Greek and Roman religion outside Egypt.[102]
- Seta-Ta – A mummified god in the fourth division of Tuat[39]
- Setcheh – A serpent demon[39]
- Setem – A god of healing[39]
- Shed – A god believed to save people from danger and misfortune[103]
- Shehbui – God of the south wind
- Shezmu – A god of wine and oil presses who also slaughters condemned souls[104]
- Sia – Personification of perception[105]
- Sopd – God of the eastern delta[100]
- Sopdet (Sothis) – Personification of the star Sirius, mother of Sopdu[16]
- Ṭuamutef (Duamutef) – A son of Horus[82]
- Tutu – An apotropaic god from the Greco-Roman era[106]
- Uneg/Weneg – A plant god and son of Ra who maintains cosmic order[32][19]
- Wenenu – A protector god[16]
- Wepwawet – A jackal god, the patron deity of Asyut, connected with warfare and the afterlife[107]
- Yam – A Syrian god of the sea who appears in some Egyptian texts
Groups of Deities
- The Aai – 3 guardian deities in the ninth division of Tuat; they are Ab-ta, Anhefta, and Ermen-ta[39]
- The Cavern deities – Many underworld deities charged with punishing the damned souls by beheading and devouring them.[180]
- The Ennead – An extended family of nine deities produced by Atum during the creation of the world. The Ennead usually consisted of Atum, his children Shu and Tefnut, their children Geb and Nut, and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.[181]
- The Theban Triad consisted of Amun, his consort Mut and their son Khonsu.
- The four sons of Horus – Four gods who protected the mummified body, particularly the internal organs in canopic jars.[182]
- The Gate deities – Many dangerous guardian deities at the gates of the underworld (flanked by divine Doorkeepers and Heralds), to be ingratiated by spells and knowing their names.[183]
- The Hemsut (or Hemuset) – Protective goddesses of Fate, destiny, and of the creation sprung from the primordial abyss; daughters of Ptah, linked to the concept of ka[184][185]
- The Her-Hequi – 4 deities in the fifth division of Tuat[39]
- The Hours of the day deities – 12 divine embodiments of each hour of the day: partly major deities (1st: Maat and Nenit, 2nd: Hu and Ra em-nu, 4th: Ashespi-kha, 5th: Nesbit and Agrit, 6th: Ahait, 7th: Horus and Nekait or Nekai-t, 8th: Khensu and Kheprit, 9th: Neten-her-netch-her and Ast em nebt ankh, 10th: Urit-hekau or Hekau-ur, 11th: Amanh, and partly lesser-known ones (12th: “The One Who Gives Protection In The Twilight”).[186]
- The Hours of the night deities – 12 goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads. Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the 1st hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the 2nd hour of night, M’k-neb-set, goddess of the 3rd hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or Urit-shefit, goddess of the 4th hour of the night, Heru-heri-uatch-f and Neb[t] ankh, god and goddess of the 5th hour of the night, Ari-em-aua (god) or Uba-em-tu-f and Mesperit, neb-t shekta or Neb-t tcheser, god and goddess of the 6th hour of the night, Heru-em-sau-ab and Herit-t-chatcha-ah, god and goddess of the 7th hour of the night, Ba-pefi and Ankh-em-neser-t or Merit-neser-t, god and goddess of the 8th hour of night, An-mut-f and Neb-t sent-t, god and goddess of the 9th hour of the night, Amset or Neb neteru and M’k-neb-set, god and goddess of the 10th hour of night, Uba-em-tu-f and Khesef-khemit or M’kheskhemuit, god and goddess of the 11th hour, Khepera and Maa-neferut-Ra, god and goddess of the 12th hour of the night.[186]
- The 42 judges of Maat – 42 deities including Osiris who judged the souls of the dead in the afterlife
- The Khnemiu – 4 deities wearing red crowns in the eleventh division of Tuat[39]
- The Ogdoad – A set of eight gods who personified the chaos that existed before creation. The Ogdoad commonly consisted of Amun – Amunet, Nu – Naunet, Heh – Hauhet, and Kek – Kauket.[187]
- The Renniu – 4 bearded gods in the eleventh division of Tuat[39]
- The Setheniu-Tep – 4 deities wearing white crowns in the eleventh division of Tuat[39]
- The Souls of Pe and Nekhen – A set of gods personifying the predynastic rulers of Upper and Lower Egypt.[188]
- The 12 Thoueris goddesses[156]