Bastet was depicted with the head of a cat or lion. Bastet (Bast) was an Egyptian goddess from Lower Egypt who was associated with joy, music and dancing. She was the mother of Mihos, another lion god, and the wife of Ptah, god of the arts and crafts. ...
© milk fat - The Bennu Bird Worship of the Sun God Solar templeswere built for Ra but did not contain a statue of the god. Instead, they were created to be open to the sunlight that Ra represented. The earliest known temple built in honor of Ra exists in Heliopolis (what is now ...
In the Old Kingdom period, Isis was represented as the wife or assistant of a dead Pharaoh. This is how she became to be associated with funerals. The association of the Pharaoh’s wife is consistent with Isis’s role as the spouse of Horus, the god associated with the Pharaoh as his...
The Ennead is a celestial group of nine ancient Egyptian deities who were worshipped in Heliopolis, the city of the sun. The Ennead consists of Atum "The Creator God", Shu "The God of Air", Tefnut "The Goddess of Moisture", Geb "The God of Earth", Nut "The Goddess of the Sky",...
Ba - A fertility god with a ram's head. Women hoping to get pregnant would invoke his name. Ba-Pef - A minor Egyptian god whose name means "That Soul". Little is known except that he is often sad and woeful. Babi - (a.k.a. Bab, Babay) A baboon demon who was considered a ...
Scholars have looked at these stories in the pyramids and sun temples and learned so much about how Egyptians worshiped their gods. The pictures of Ra usually show a human body with the head of a falcon, which is a kind of bird, with a sun above his head. Lesson...
Bird-headed god (Image credit: Photo courtesy Kevin Cahail) A view of the lower-right corner of the sarcophagus, on each corner an image of Thoth, the god of writing and knowledge, was shown. He has the head of an ibis bird. [Read full story] Sunlit tomb (Image credit: Photo courte...
She and Osiris were both Egyptian deities belonging to the Ennead of Heliopolis, the first nine descendants of the creator god Ra. Isis represented every positive feminine quality to ancient believers. They viewed her as a beautiful woman wearing a sheath dress and a headdress and often depicted...
His head is black. Jackals used to haunt cemeteries, so they were linked with funerals - the idea being that a jackal god would protect the domain of the dead. Buffalo Museum of Science See also:Metropolitan Museum of Art: Statuette of the God Anubis ...
Osiris was the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the dead, agriculture, vegetation, fertility, and at one point, all of life Unlike other gods who had animal heads, Osiris was often represented as a man with a royal beard, wearing an Atef crown, royal dress, and holding the crook and flail...