She was a powerful healer and magician and could transform into a bird. She also had a vast amount of knowledge. What is the appearance of the goddess Isis like? Isis is usually shown as a beautiful woman wearing a sheath dress. Her headdress is often an empty throne or a disk with ...
This lesson introduces you to the Ancient Egyptians Gods who are represented in human form with the head of a bird or a beast. They take on the natural qualities of their form in mythical stories that explore the universal questions about life, death and
Hedetet - A little known goddess who took the form of a scorpion. Heket - (a.k.a. Hek, Hektet, Heqat, Heget) An Egyptian goddess of childbirth. Was depicted on temple walls as a woman with a frogs head and on amulets as a frog. Hemen - A little known Egyptian falcon god....
Isis was the Egyptian Goddess who had the power to bring her dead lover back to life. How did she come to be known as a Protector of the Dead? Read on!
Osiris was born into a family where he was one of the five children of Geb, the earth god, and Nut, the sky goddess. Through this family tree, he was also a great-grandson of one of the most popular Egyptian gods, Ra. Osiris had four younger siblings who played a significant role...
Theostrichpersonified order and the goddess Ma’at: she was depicted as a woman wearing an ostrich feather on her headdress, which is why many Egyptian women wore similar items. Fish Fish weresacredto the ancient Egyptians because they were believed to swim alongside Ra’s barge as it sailed...
Depictions of Isis show her as a goddess and a human woman. As a goddess, she wears thevulture headdress. This resembled a bird laying on its stomach on top of Isis' head, with its head over her forehead and wings hanging down on each side of her head. Isis wears a jeweled collar...
If a person had lived a life holding Maat (righteousness and justice) in high regard, they would be free to enter Osiris’ kingdom of lush and verdant fields. If their heart was weighed down with guilt and shame, they would be cast into the maw of the crocodile-headed goddess Ammit to...
As a reward for the great piety of the queen, and her devotion to the interests of Amen-Rā upon earth, the god undertakes to make her a goddess in his kingdom, to provide her with an estate there in perpetuity and a never-failing supply of offerings, and happiness of heart, soul ...
The motif of The Distant Goddess appears in a number of Egyptian myths but always has the same meaning no matter who the specific goddess is or where she has gone: Ra’s daughter disagrees with him on some matter and leaves him to vanish into some far off land and someone has to be ...