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GODS AND GODDESSES. BY SHREYA. Contents Gods and Goddesses Bastet Anubis Horus Ra Amum Geb. contents. Gods and Goddesses.
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GODS AND GODDESSES BY SHREYA
Contents • Gods and Goddesses • Bastet • Anubis • Horus • Ra • Amum • Geb contents
Gods and Goddesses There were over 2,000 names of Gods and Goddesses in ancient Egypt. Some Images of ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Show them with a human body and the head of a bird or an animal. Animals were Chosen to represent the powers of God. Horus and Seth were enemies. They once turned into fierce Hippos to fight. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CONTENTS PAGE
Bastet Bastet was the Goddess of protection of love, pleasure and pregnant woman. She has a head of a cat. In Egyptian mythology, the sacred cat is the animal in carnation of the Goddess Bast or Bastet. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CONTENTS PAGE
Anubis Anubis guided the dead to the next life via the court of Osiris in the under world. He was the one who looked after the mummification process. Anubis’s head is of a Jackal. Anubis is the God of Embalming. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CONTENTS PAGE
Horus Horus was the God of the sky. The Egyptians believed that the Pharoah was the living Horus. The Egyptian God, Horus had a head of a Falcon.