Egyptian Gods – The Complete List
12th September 2021
The gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt were an integral part of the people’s everyday lives. It is not surprising then that there were over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon. Some of these deities’ names are well known: Isis, Osiris, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, Anubis, and Ptah while many others less so.
This comprehensive list of the Egyptian pantheon reminds me of nothing so much as a list of current Federal and State government agencies.
The more famous gods became state deities while others were associated with a specific region or, in some cases, a ritual or role.
Pretty keen resemblance.
The goddess Qebhet, for example, is a little known deity who offered cool water to the souls of the dead as they awaited judgment in the afterlife, and Seshat was the goddess of written words and specific measurements overshadowed by Thoth, the better known god of writing and patron of scribes.
That would be the SSA (Social Security Administration), National Bureau of Standards, and the Department of Education.
These gods all had names, individual personalities and characteristics, wore different kinds of clothing, held different objects as sacred, presided over their own domains of influence, and reacted in highly individualistic ways to events. Each deity had their own area of expertise but were often associated with several spheres of human life.
See? Nailed it.