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Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
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Answer the following questions:
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What area surrounded the Nile?
Where were Upper and Lower Egypt? Why was
this?
What landform was at the top of the River?
What landforms were in the South near Nubia?
Explain the progression of Egyptian boats and how
they helped travel.
ANSWER TO #5
 Boats began as bundles of reeds
 Then they made boats out of wood from Lebanon
 Sails increased speed, and they could travel
AGAINST the current.
Amon
• Amon was one of the most
powerful gods in ancient Egypt.
• He was the god of the city-state of
Thebes.
• When combined with Ra, he was
then called Amon-Ra.
Anubis
• God of embalming and the
dead
• Since jackals were often seen
in cemeteries, the ancient
Egyptians believed that Anubis
watched over the dead.
• Anubis was the god who
watched over the process of
mummifying people when they
died.
Atum
• Atum was a creator god.
• Egyptians believed that Atum was
the first god to exist on earth.
• Believed he created all the other
gods
Bes
•Bes was the protector of pregnant
women, newborn babies and the
family.
• Also protected against snake and
scorpion bites.
• Amulets of Bes were popular at
all levels of Egyptian society.
Hapi
• Hapi was the god of the flood
• Hapi was especially important to
the ancient Egyptians because he
brought the flood every year.
• The flood deposited rich silt on the
banks of the Nile.
Hathor
• Hathor was a protective goddess.
She was also the goddess of love and
joy.
• Hathor was connected with foreign
places and materials. For instance,
she was the goddess of the desert and
the turquoise mines in the Sinai.
Horus
• Horus was the god of the sky.
• He is probably most well-known as
the protector of the rulers of Egypt.
• The Egyptians believed that the
pharaoh was the 'living Horus'.
Isis
• Isis was a protective goddess.
• She used powerful magic spells to
help people in need.
• Isis was the wife of Osiris and the
mother of Horus. Since each
pharaoh was considered the 'living
Horus', Isis was very important.
Khepri
• Khepri was a god of creation, the
movement of the sun, and rebirth.
• The ancient Egyptians believed
that the beetles just appeared from
nowhere- as they believed that their
creator god had appeared from
nowhere.
• Also connected with the sun god
Ra who pushed the sun through the
sky every day.
Osiris
• Osiris was the god of the dead, and
ruler of the underworld.
• Osiris was a also a god
of resurrection
• Egyptians believed that Osiris gave
them the gift of barley, one of their
most important crops.
Ptah
• Ptah was the god of craftsmen and
architects.
• Chief god of the city of Memphis.
• He was believed to determine the
individual destiny of the artists near
Thebes.
Ra
• Ra was the sun god.
• He was the most important god of
the ancient Egyptians.
• The ancient Egyptians believed that
Ra was swallowed every night by the
sky goddess Nut, and was reborn
every morning.
Sekhmet
• Sekhmet was the goddess of war and
destruction.
• Having once unleashed her powers for
the destruction of mankind, the
Egyptians feared her.
• Egyptians built statues of her and tried
to please her daily to save themselves
from her destruction.
Seth
• Seth was the god of chaos.
• Seth represented everything that
threatened harmony in Egypt.
• He killed his brother Osiris, then
battled with his nephew Horus to be
the ruler of the living.
Sobek
• Sobek was a Nile god.
• Sobek was connected with the Nile,
and protected the king.
• Live crocodiles were kept in pools
at temples built to honor Sobek.
Wrap Up
 Let’s review the gods and goddesses we have learned about.