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Amaunet
Sometimes called the wife of Amen; goddess of Heaven.

Ament/Amenti
"The Westerner"; "hidden goddess"; goddess of the land West or the Underworld; "Goddess with beautiful hair." Consort of Amen. Her emblems were the hawk and the feather. Ament was represented in human female form wearing either an ostrich feather on her head or an ostrich plume and a hawk. She welcomed all deceased people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living.

Anqet/Anuket/Anukis
"The Clasper"; water goddess of the Nile Cataracts. Her symbol was the cowrie shell. Khnemu's second wife, she had a special dwelling place on the island of Seheil. Als worshipped at Elephantine with Khnemu. Pictured as a woman wearing a tall plumed crown. Sometimes she was pictured as having four arms which represented the union of male and female principles. She was self-begotten and self-produced. Producer and giver of life, water.

Apet
See Ta-Urt

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See Isis

Athor/Athyr
See Hathor....
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Bast/Bastet/Pasht(in her dark aspect)
Cat-headed goddess; mother of all cats; wife of Ptah. She was identified with Artemis or Diana who was also called the mother of cats. The living power and gentle heat of the sunlight. Lady of the East; associated with the god Sept (Lord of the East). The cat was Egypt's most sacred animal but the black cat was especially sacred to her; Egyptian physicians used the black cat symbol in healing. Cats were sacred to her in general, kept in her temple, and embalmed when they died. To kill a cat meant a death sentence. Her sacred home was Bubastis in Lower Egypt. Bast carried a sistrum in her right hand and a basket in her left. She was generally draped in green. During her huge annual fair, thousands of worshipers journeyed on Nile barges, accompanied by flutes, castanets, and lots of wine. Splendid processions went through the streets to her temples. Goddess of fire, the Moon, childbirth, fertility, pleasure, benevolence, joy, jokes, sexual rites, music, dance, protection against disease and evil spirits, warmth, all animals (especially cats), intuition, healing, generosity, marriage.

Buto/Uajyt/Uatchet/Utchat/Per Udjit/Uazit/Uto/Uraeus
Cobra goddess and ancient protectress of Lower Egypt and the Delta town of Uadjit. "Eye of Ra"; "Lady of Heaven." Lady of the North. At times she was portrayed as a cobra, sometimes winged, sometimes crowned. Other times she was shown as a woman wearing a vulture headdress and the red crown of the North; she held a papyrus scepter twined with a long snake. Goddess of protection, hiding from evil.
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Ernutet
See Renenet/Renenutet

Eset
See Isis
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Hathor/Athor/Athyr/Het-Hert(House or Womb Above)/Hat-Hor(House of Womb of Horus)
"The golden"; "Queen of the West" (or the Dead); "the Lady of the Sycamore"; "House of the Face"; "House of Horus"; Mother Goddess; mother of all gods and goddesses; Queen of Heaven; sky and Moon goddess; similar to Aphrodite. Considered self-produced. The seven Hathors, or Holy Midwives, were associated with the seven planets. Cosmic goddess associated with Ra; she carried his Sacred Eye. Personification of the great power of Nature. The mirror and sistrum were sacred to her. Hathor's appearance could be as a cow-headed goddess or a human-headed woman with horns, cow's ears, and heavy tresses. She liked to embody herself in the sistrum to drive away evil spirits; another of her instruments was the tambourine. New Year's Day, one of her many festivals, was celebrated as her birthday. At that time her image was taken from the temple out into the rising Sun for a day of enjoyment, song, and intoxication. Her main sanctuary was at Dendera where she was worshiped with her infant son Ihi (Ahi), "the Sistrum Player." She was also worshiped at Edfu with Horus, her husband and Lord of the temple, as well as at Ombos. She cared for the dead, carrying them to the afterworld. Protectress of women; goddess of joy, love, pleasure, flowers, the sky, Moon, tombs, motherhood, beauty, marriage, cosmetics, singers and dancers, merry-makers, beautiful women, artists, artistic works, vine and wine, ale and beer, happiness, music, song, the dance, weaving garlands, good times in general, Nature, physical comforts, protection, astrology, prosperity, jewelry, strength, the arts, family.

Heqet/Heqtit/Heket
As a frog-headed goddess, she was one of the midwives for the birth of the Sun each morning and for the germinating grain. Goddess of creation, fertility, corn, resurrection.
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Isis/As/Eset/Tait
Supreme Egyptian goddess; Moon goddess; Great Mother; Great Goddess; giver of Life. As Tait, Isis was the weaver and knottier of the threads of the Tat. She was pictured with dark hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. Identified with Demeter, Hera, and Selene. With Osiris, Isis (the mother) and Horus (the divine child) made up the Holy Trinity. Legend says that Isis was born in the swamps of the Delta. North of Busiris at Perchbet, there was a renowned temple of Isis. Great festivals in the spring and autumn honored her with splendid processions, along with a June festival called the Night of the Teardrop. Priestesses of Isis were called the mesniu (smiths) and worded with metals. As with many ancient cultures, these priest-smiths were said to receive their magick from secret connections with the Goddess and the female forces of Nature. The cow was sacred to her, as were the magick Buckle of Isis and the sistrum. Her sistrum was carved with a cat image that represented the Moon. Sometimes she was portrayed with protecting winged arms. Isis helped her brother-husband teach Egyptians to grind corn, spin flax, weave cloth, and cure disease. As High Priestess, she was a powerful magician. Goddess of marriage and domestic life, the Moon, motherhood, fertility, magick, purification, initiation, reincarnation, success, womanhood, healing, spinning, weaving, advice, divination, civilization, agriculture, the arts, protection, advice. The patroness of priestesses.
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Maat/Maa/Maut/Mayet(Pronounced May-at)
"The Mother"; "Lady of the Judgment Hall"; the Virgin; cherished daughter of Ra and wife of Thoth. Her law governed the three worlds; even the other gods had to obey ("live by Maat". In the Hall of Double Justice where Osiris held his tribunal, Maat stood in one pan of the balance scale opposite the heart of the deceased when it was tested for truthfulness. There were 42 Assessors or Judges of Maat who passed judgment on souls. The heart had to be empty of evil to balance the feather weight on the scales. She was often pictured wearing an ostrich feather on her head while standing or sitting on her heels; she held a scepter and ankh. Associated with Thoth. Goddess of truth, right, justice, law, final judgment of human soul, order, divine order, reincarnation.

Mehueret/Mehurt
A universal Mother Goddess; Lady of Heaven; Mistress of Earth. Associated with night.

Meshkent/Meskhenet
Goddess of childbirth and delivery, she brought relief to women in labor and often predicted the future of the new child. Sometimes an image of her head was carved on the two bricks on which Egyptian women crouched during delivery. Wife of Shai. She was shown as a woman wearing two long palm shoots which were curved at the ends. Childbirth, rebirth.

Mut (pronounced Moot)
"The Mother"; "Lady of Thebes"; "world-mother"; Great Mother; "The Great Sorceress"; "Mistress of Heaven"; "Eye of Ra"; a sky goddess who wore a vulture headdress. Associated with the cow, cat and lions, her symbol was three cauldrons. Wive of Amen-Ra and identified with the Greek Hera. Sometimes shown winged, she was considered self-produced. Marriage, creation.
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Neith/Neit/Net/Nit (pronounced Night)
"The Huntress"; "Opener of the Ways"; Great Goddess; Mother of the gods; goddess of war and the hunt; goddess of the lower heavens; warrior-goddess and protectress; Lady of the West. Her name means "I have come from myself," or self-begotten. The Greeks identified her with Pallas Athene, who also had a dual role of warrior and woman skilled in domestic arts. Eternal goddess, universal mother; the Spirit behind the Veil of Mysteries; World Body; Primal Abyss. Her cult was a very ancient one with two queens of the Fist Dynasty named after her. Often shown along side Selquet as mummy guardian and protectress of marriage. She wore the red crown of Lower Egypt. In her hands she held a bow and two arrows. At her temple in Sais, Plutarch read the inscription: "I am all that has been, that is, and that will be. No mortal has yet been able to lift the veil that covers me." Part of this sanctuary was a school of medicine, the House of Life, run by her priests. Her ceremonies were of a mystic nature. Herbs, magick, healing, mystical knowledge, rituals, meditation. Patroness of domestic arts, weaving hinting, medicine, war, weapons. Protectress of women and marriage.

Nekhebet
Guardian goddess, often in ulture form; identified witht the Greek Eleithyia. Lady of the South. From earliest times she was the protective goddess of Upper Egypt. The center of her cult was at El Kab, the former Nekheb, capital of the oldest kingdom of the South. Often shown hovering over Pharaoh as a vulture, holding the fly whisk and the seal. As a woman, she was pictured wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt or a vulture headdress. She carried a scepter with a serpent twined around it. Goddess of motherhood, childbirth, protecton.

Nephtys/Nebt-Het/Nebthet.Nebhet
"Mistress of the palace"; "Lady of the House"; "the Revealer"; Underworld Goddess who represented life and death. The dark sister of Isis, wife of Set; mother of Anubis. Pictured as fair with green eyes. Identified with the Greek Aphrodite and Nike. Often shown as a woman with long winged arms stretched in protection; carried a basket on her head sometimes. Goddess of death and dark magick; guardian of hidden things; mystical things, protection, invisibility or anonymity, intuition, dreams, peace.

Nut (pronounced Noot)/Nu
"Life-giver"; Mother of the gods; Great Mother; friend and protector of the dead. A sky goddess, often identified with the Greek Rhea. Personification of the heavens, sky, clouds, and stars. Reincarnation, weather.
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Opet
See Ta-Urt
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Pasht
Darker aspect of Bast
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Rat/Tat-Taiut/Rait/Rat (rate)
"Lady of the Heavens"; "Mistress of the gods"; "Mistress of Heliopolis"; Mother of the gods; "Goddess of the two lands." Mother of Selkhet and Maat. Shown as a woman wearing a disk with horns and a uraeus. Wisdom, knowledge.

Renenet/Renenutet/Ernutet
"Lady of double granary"; goddess of the eighth month of the Egyptian calendar. When a soul was weighed and judged, Renenet stood by with Shai. She was shown as a woman with a serpent's head or a serpent wearing the solar disk. Other appearances of this goddess show her with a lion head or wearing the plumes of Maat. She gave a baby its ren (soul-name), personality, and future fate at its birth. Children, luck, justice.

Renpet
"Mistress of eternity." She wore a long palm shoot above her head. Goddess of youth, springtime, the year, the general idea of time.
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Sati/Satet
"To sow seed"; goddess of the Cataracts; one of Khnemu's wives; similar to Juno. Sister of the goddess Anqet. Her headdress was the crown of Upper Egypt with a pair of cow's horns. She was often shown as the Archer (representing the river's current), holding a bow and arrows. She was worshipped in the extreme south of Egypt on the island of Seheil. Fertility, the hunt, planting, water.

Sekhet
Sister and wife of Ptah; mother of his son Nefer-Tem; sister of Bast. "Mighty lady"; "Lady of Flame"; personified the fierce, scorching, destroying rays of the Sun. Wore a red garment. Strength, might, violence, cultivated lands and fields.

Sekhmet/Sakhmet
"The terrible one"; "the Powerful"; "the beloved of Ptah"; dark sister of Bast; a lioness-headed goddess. She represented the destroying power of the sunlight and was crowned with a disk of coiled cobra. Goddess of war and battle, physicians and bone-setters.

Selqet/Selket/Selquet/Selchis/Serqet
Shown as a woman with a scorpion on her head, often with extended winged arms. Guardian after death of the canopic jars. Protectress of marriage; goddess of happy marriages and married sexual love.

Seshat/Sesheta
"Mistress of the house of books"; "the secretary"; "mistress of the house of architects"; star goddess. The female equivalent and wife of Thoth, this goddess was in fact older than Thoth. At first Seshat was pictured as a woman wearing on her head a star, reversed crescent, and two long straight plumes. Later the crescent was replaced with two long down-turned horns. She was the record-keeper of the gods and keeper of the inventory of the pharaoh's enemy booty. Goddess of writing, letters, archives, measurement, calculation, record-keeping, hieroglyphics, time, stars, sky, history, books, learning, inventions.

Shai (male)/Shait (female)
Sometimes a goddess, sometimes a god. This deity had a role like a guardian angel, presiding over destiny and fate. One was born with each person and at death gave a true account of all sins and good works in the Hall of Judgment.
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Tait
See Isis

Tat-Taiut
See Rat....

Ta-Urt/Tauret/Apet/Opet/Taueret/Taurt/Thoueris/Rertrertu/Taweret
Hippopotamus goddess; sometimes an avenging deity. Her hieroglyphic sign was sa meaning uterine blood of the Goddess that could give eternal life. she was pictured as a female hippo with pendulous breasts, standing upright and holding a plait of rolled papyrus (a sign of protection). In her darker aspect she was the goddess of darkness and revenge. Goddess of childbirth, maternity, nursing, mothers, revenge, protection.

Tefnut/Tefenet
Sometimes identified with the Greek Artemis. Said to live at the bottom of the Underworld, Tefnut was fed by a group of Underworld gods, who hacked up dead bodies for the blood. Goddess of moisture, dew, rain, mist.
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Uajyt/Uatchet/Utchat/Uazit/Uto/Uraeus
See Buto....
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