Neteru

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Ra  

Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky god Heru. At times the two deities were merged as Ra-Horakhty, "Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons". In the New Kingdom, when the god Amun rose to prominence he was fused with Ra into Amun-Ra.

All forms of life were believed to have been created by Ra. In some accounts, humans were created from Ra's tears and sweat, hence the Kemetians call themselves the "Cattle of Ra". In the myth of the Celestial Cow, it is recounted how mankind plotted against Ra and how he sent his eye as the goddess Sekhmet to punish them.

Ausar

Ausar is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

He was one of the first to be associated with the mummy wrap. When his brother, Set, cut him up into pieces after killing him, Auset, his wife, found all the pieces and wrapped his body up, enabling him to return to life. Ausar was at times considered the eldest son of the god Geb and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Auset, with Heru being considered his posthumously begotten son. He was also associated with the epithet Khenti-Amentiu, meaning "Foremost of the Westerners", a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead

Auset

Auset was a major goddess in ancient Kemetian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Auset was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE) as one of the main characters of the Ausarian story, in which she resurrects her slain husband, the divine king Ausar, and produces and protects his heir, Heru. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Ausar, and she was considered the divine mother of all living things. Her maternal aid was invoked in healing spells to benefit ordinary people

Anubis

Anubis is the god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld. In ancient Kemet Anubis is usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Archeologists have identified Anubis's sacred animal as an Kemetian Golden wolf. The African wolf was formerly called the "African golden jackal", until a 2015 genetic analysis updated the taxonomy and the common name for the species. As a result, Anubis is often referred to as having a "jackal" head, but this "jackal" is now more properly called a "wolf".

Tehuti

Tehuti was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at.He was the god of wisdom, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art, judgment, and the dead.

Ma'at

Maat represents the concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation

Heru

Heru served many functions, most notably god of kingship and the sky. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a Lanner falcon or Peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head. Heru is the son of Auset and Ausar. He plays a key role in the Ausarian story as Ausar's heir and rival to Set.

Het-Heru

Het-Heru was goddess of music, dance, fertility, beauty, love and jubilation. She was represented as a woman with cow horns or as a cow, obviously to signify giving life. She was considered to be the daughter of Ra.

Sebek

The people of ancient Kemet worshiped crocodiles while both loving and fearing them. They were a symbol of power, virility and fertility. As the Crocodile God, Sebek protected the Kemetian army, the pharaohs, and the ancient Kemetian people. His strength and courage allowed the Pharaoh to overcome obstacles and also protected him from evil magic.

Sebek is portrayed as a full crocodile or as a human with a crocodile head. The Ancient Kemetians kept crocodiles in pools and temples, fed them delicacies and bejeweled them. Mummified crocodiles of all ages have been found in tombs, including eggs with fetuses.

Bastet

Bastet is the Kemetian goddess of the home, domesticity, women's secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children.

Ptah

Ptah fashioned the universe through harmonics and thought. He helped the dead on their travels through the afterlife allowing them to transform into his divine figure. He allowed the dead to be like the living after death with the Opening of the Mouth ceremony. The Apis bull was his sacred animal, more of a representation of his soul on earth who gave fertility and rebirth to the people.

Khepri

Khepri, the self-existent creator god was associated with the scarab or dung beetle due to the scarab’s habit of rolling a ball of mud or dung along the ground. Observing the insect’s behavior, the Kemetians interpreted it as being similar to the ball moving across the sky daily.

Khepri was the god of the first sunrise at the dawn of the creation and sometimes, he also symbolized the sun in general, which means he was linked with the Ra.

Taweret

Taweret is the protective ancient Kemetian goddess of childbirth and fertility. The name "Taweret" means "she who is great" or simply "great one", a common pacificatory address to dangerous deities. The deity is typically depicted as a bipedal female hippopotamus with feline attributes, pendulous female human breasts, the limbs and paws of a lion, and the back and tail of a Nile crocodile. She commonly bears the epithets "Lady of Heaven", "Mistress of the Horizon", "She Who Removes Water", "Mistress of Pure Water", and "Lady of the Birth House".

Seshat

Seshat was the Ancient Kemetian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. She was seen as a scribe and record keeper, and her name means she who scrivens (i.e. she who is the scribe), and is credited with inventing writing. She also became identified as the goddess of architecture, astronomy, astrology, building, mathematics, and surveying.

She is depicted with a Cannabis leaf above her head. Cannabis played a meaningful role in Ancient Kemetian medicine, spirituality, and intellectual creativity.

Geb and Nut

These two gods embody opposites. The earth god Geb, who represents dry land, is the husband of sky goddess Nut, who represents the sky, a mirror image of the watery sea. Nut is portrayed as a woman with an arched body covered with stars. She is the daughter of Shu and Tefnut.

Shu

Shu, in Kemetian religion, god of the air and supporter of the sky, created by Atum by his own power, without the aid of a woman. Shu and his sister and companion, Tefnut (goddess of moisture), were the first couple of the group of nine gods called the Ennead of Heliopolis.

Tefnut

Tefnut is a deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Kemetian religion. She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut.

Set

Set is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Kemetian religion. Set is portrayed as the usurper who killed and mutilated his own brother, Ausar.

Atum

Atum is the Kemetian creator god. In one Kemetian cosmogony, Atum created himself from nothing, then created Shu (the air) and Tefnut (moisture). They created Geb (the earth) and Nut (the sky), who in turn created five other gods. This group of creators of the world is called the Ennead.

Seker

Seker was god of the dead. He was also the patron of the workers who built the necropolis and the craftsmen who made tomb artifacts, ritual objects and substances used in mummification.