[MOD] Gods and goddesses reference list.



Anubis

fair, just, judgmental

- God of death, particularly embalming
- Guide of the dead
- Has the head of a jackal and a human body
- Invented embalming to embalm Osiris
- Weighs your heart against the feather of Ma'at

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Amun

creative and benelovent

- God of creation
- Created ALL things
- Crowned in feathers
- Invisible
- If called Amun-Re, this allowed people to see him
- Sacred animal is the ram

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Bastet

brave and motherly

- Goddess of cats
- Daughter of Ra
- Proctress of cats
- Has the head of a cat
- Bravely defended her father, Ra, against the Apep
- Greatly respected since cats protected the grain from mice and rats

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Geb

powerful and authoritarian

- God of earth
- Parent of Osiris and Seth
- Color of plants and Nile mud
- Beneath Nut (sky)
- If storms came during the day, it was believed that Nut had come closer to Geb
- Nut was married to the King of the Gods, Ra, but she was in love with Geb

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Hathor

loyal

- Goddess of love, joy, motherhood, music, and dance
- Horns of cow and sun disk on head
- Looked after ALL women
- Dead women were identified with Hathor
- Has another side--Sekhmet (destruction)
- Was sent by Ra to punish man, but instead killed all men and drank their blood

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Horus

- Pharaoh
- Son of Isis and Osiris
- A hawk, or a man with a hawk's head crowned with the crown of all Egypt
- Crown is made of two parts; white: Upper Egypt, red: Lower Egypt
- Pharaohs identified themselves with Horus and after they died, they became Osiris
- When young, his father, Osiris, was killed by Seth
- Went to war with Seth to win his fathers crown and kingdom
- Blinded by Seth, though Thoth had managed to heal his eye
- The Eye of Horus, healed by Thoth, was an amulet, or magic charm

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Isis

sly, feminine, motherly

- Goddess of magic, Queen of Goddesses
- Wife of Osiris and Mother of Horus
- Seen with throne on head or holding a baby
- Great healer and magician
- Attained powers by tricking Ra (by creating a snake of his saliva)
- Met with Seth, asked for help and had convinced Seth to stop fighting.
- Seth murdered her husband and threw him into the Nile river
- After Seth cut up Osiris, she found all the pieces and built shrines there

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Ma'at

truthful and orderly

- Goddess of truth, justice and harmony
- Wife of Thoth
- Seen with ostrich feathers in her hair
- Both Ma'at and Thoth helped at the Weighing of the Heart
- The feather was given to her by the Priest of Ma'at. She had won his case in the law courts
- The pharaoh had to promise that he would follow Ma'at by keeping order in Egypt

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Nut

- Goddess of sky
- Parent of Osiris and Seth
- Blue with golden stars
- Above Nut
- If storms came during the day, it was believed that Nut had come closer to Geb
- Nut was married to the King of the Gods, Ra, but she was in love with Geb

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Osiris

wise

- God of the dead
- Husband of Isis and Father of Horus
- Dressed in white; skin is green to represent vegetation
- Crown is the white crown of Upper Egypt surrounded by red feathers
- Holds the symbols of supreme power, the flail (separates grains) and crook (used in threshing)
- Ruled over the Egyptians and taught them farming
- His brother Seth had always hated him and wanted to kill him

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Ra

pantheistic

- God of sun, king of the gods
- A falcon crowned with a sun disk or a man with a falcon's head
- Sailed across the heavens in a boat called the 'Barque of Millions of Years'
- At the end of each day Ra was thought to die and sailed through the Underworld.
- The boat would sail through 12 doors, representing the 12 hours of night-time.
- The next dawn, he was born again.
- During the day Ra had to fight his chief enemy, Apep, a snake--helped by Seth and Bastet
- Was the greatest of the gods and he kept his power in secret
- Grew old and sometimes dribbled where Isis collected his saliva to make a snake
- Was tricked by Isis to give her magical powers, then healed by Isis

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Sekhmet

powerful, vicious, nefarious

- Goddess of destruction
- Woman with the head of a lion
- Has another side--Hathor (love, music and dance)
- Was sent by Ra to punish man, but instead killed all men and drank their blood

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Seth

cunning and shrewd

- God of desert, storm and violence
- Brother of Osiris
- Seen with and animal head with long curved pointed snout
- No-one seems to know what animal Seth is
- Carries a sceptre which has his head on top and his tail at the other end
- Was not always bad--helped Ra fight the snake, Apep
- Made a beautiful coffin where only Osiris would fit and tricked him into the box
- Threw his brothers body into the Nile river
- Was terrified Isis could bring her husband back from the dead
- Found Osiris's hidden body to cut him into pieces, scattering them along the Nile

More info here.

Thoth

wise and patient

- God of wisdom, time, writing and the moon
- Husband of Ma'at
- Seen with head of an ibis
- Invented hieroglyphs
- Measurer of the earth and the counter of the stars
- Keeper and recorder of all knowledge
- Had stolen The Book Of Thoth
- Had a dream he saw a beautiful woman and killed his wife
- Feeling guilty he had returned the book to the tomb of Neferkeptah

More info here.


I'll add more info another time, but for the time being this is as much as I can do. If anyone has more information on a certain character, then comment here. If something needs fixed let me know!

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