Line #313 Characters/EgyptianMythology


1	Egyptian Mythology is incredibly ancient and complex. It lacked a central authority, with major cities and areas having their own important gods. Myths often [[ContinuitySnarl got mixed]] up, with gods having different roles, being combined with others to form new composite gods, and different family relationships as old gods fell into obscurity and new gods rose to prominence.
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5	!!In General
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7	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The fully humanoid gods often had green or blue skin.
8	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They worked on an 'order vs chaos' mentality where chaos, no matter how well-intentioned, would cause destruction while order would lead to prosperity.
9	* FoodGod: Hathor and Renenuet, with the latter being the general harvest and Hathor representing plenty.
10	* GodOfTheDead: Anubis, Osiris, Nepthys, Seker, Nehbebkau, and Wepwawet. Various other goddess, including Hathor, were said to protect the dead, and Medjed had some role in the process.
11	%%* GodOfKnowledge: Well-represented. Thoth, Isis, Sheshat, and Neith generally. Hequet and Serket are more specifically [[HealerGod gods of healing]]- specifically, Serket healed venemous bites and stings.
12	* GodOfLight: A ''lot'' of solar deities, as expected of a desert country. Ra was the best-known one, but others include Atum, Sekhmet (specifically the harsh, burning sun), Montu, Pakhet, Khepri, and Mut. Even Sobek, normally a river god, took a turn as a solar god when he was syncretized with Ra or Horus.
13	* GodOfTheMoon: Usually Khonsu, but Horus was ''also'' sometimes one; he had one of his eyes gouged out by Set, and his original eye represented the Sun while his Isis-made replacement represented the moon.
14	* GodOfOrder: All of them. Egyptian cosmology divided the world into 'order' and 'chaos', where order was the side that kept things working and chaos (usually represented by Apep and/or Set) was the side that tried to break it.
15	* LittleBitBeastly: They were often, though not always, portrayed with traits of animals they were associated with, though level of anthropomorphism varied. The most common variety was 'normal human with the head of an animal'.
16	* LordOfTheOcean: No ocean god, but plenty of deities associated with water and rivers, thanks to the Nile. This category includes Hapi (god of the Nile's annual flood), Neith, Nepthys, Khnum (more specifically, he was river mud), Tefnut (rain and moisture), and Sobek.
17	* LoveGoddess: Hathor was the primary love goddess, but Babi and Sobek were gods of male fertility, and Tawaret of female fertility.
18	* TheMaker: Atum, Ptah, Neith, and occasionally Khonsu and Hathor. Khnum was also sometimes considered to have made the other gods by sculpting them out of river clay.
19	* StockGods: A [[ContinuitySnarl very confused case]]. Because the Egyptian religion varied so much over time and between various cities, ''multiple'' gods often covered various popular domains, often with contradictory stories.
20	%%* TopGod: Ra, usually. Sometimes Neith, Amun, or Horus.
21	%%* WarGod: Neith, Sekhmet, Montu, Pakhet, Mafdet (more specifically a goddess of execution), Wepwawet, and Anhur.
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23	!!Primordials
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25	[[folder:The Ogdoad]]
26	!! Ὀγδοάς \| Ogdoad [[note]]translated "the eightfold"[[/note]]
27	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogdoad_deity.jpg]]
28	The Ogdoad were eight primordial deities worshipped in Hermopolis. This proto-pantheon consisted of four gods who were the embodiments of primal concepts, and four goddesses which embodied the opposite concepts. The Ogdoad was made up from '''Ḥeḥu'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎛𓎛𓅱𓀯[[/labelnote]] and '''Ḥeḥut'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎛𓎛𓅱𓏏𓆇𓁐[[/labelnote]] (time and space), '''Nenu'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓏍𓇯𓈗𓀭[[/labelnote]]𓏏and '''Naunet'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓏍𓇯𓈗𓏏𓆇𓁐[[/labelnote]] (chaos and order), '''Kek'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎡𓎡𓏭𓅱𓇰𓀯[[/labelnote]] and '''Kauket'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎡𓎡𓏭𓅱𓇰𓏏𓆇𓁐[[/labelnote]] (darkness and light), and lastly either '''Amun'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓇋𓏠𓈖𓁩[[/labelnote]] and '''Amunet'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓇋𓏠𓈖𓏏𓆇𓆗[[/labelnote]] or '''Qerḥ'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂢𓀯[[/labelnote]] and '''Qerḥet'''[[labelnote:𓋹]]𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂢𓏏𓆇𓁐[[/labelnote]] (creation/destruction and life/death). They were later replaced by cults to other deities like Amun, and then the Heliopolian Ennead, which were Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut and their descendants.
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30	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Tiamat and Abzu]], as well as [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Khaos/Chaos and the Protogenoi]].
31	* DarkIsNotEvil: Kek's name meant "darkness", and he was part of the benevolent Ogdoad, where he represented both the primordial darkness and the bringing of dawn.
32	* DependingOnTheWriter: The fourth pair of male and female deities wasn't consistent and varied between Amun and Amunet or Qerḥ and Qerḥet.
33	* EldritchAbomination: Every one of them qualifies, though sometimes they are depicted as either humanoid or animalistic.
34	* FlatCharacter: None of them had much in the way of characterization or individual stories, and only Amun (when he was included in the Ogdoad at all) became prominent enough to be worshipped separately. This is a given seeing as they are simply primal forces with no characterization and little surviving documents.
35	* FrogMen: The male gods (Nenu, Ḥeḥu, Kek, and Amun or Qerḥ) were often portrayed with frogs' heads, while the female gods (Naunet, Ḥeḥut, Kauket, and Amunet or Qerḥet) were depicted with serpents' heads. This was in keeping with their creation myth, where they lived in the primordial waters of the universe and therefore took the forms of water-dwelling creatures.
36	* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Nenu and Naunet, while the others are gender-flipped.
37	* InconsistentSpelling: Their names could be spelled in plenty of different ways. Nenu's name was often spelled as "Nu" or "Nun".
38	* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: Kek and Kauket are deities of both these domains.
39	* PrimordialChaos: Nenu and Naunet represented the chaotic, cosmic ocean of Nu that was believed to shape the universe.
40	* TheOldGods: These are what the Egyptians worshipped before the Ennead replaced them.
41	* TimeAbyss: Double points for this being the case both in RealLife and InUniverse, er- mythology. They are from the oldest surviving records and are the first deities in the whole Egyptian mythos.
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44	[[folder:Atum]]
45	!!𓏏𓍃𓀭 \| Atum/Atoum/Atem/Tem [[note]]translated "the completed one" or "the finished one"[[/note]]
46	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atum_deity.png]]
47	'''Atum''' is the first god in the Heliopolitan creation myth, who created himself and then everything else: the universe, other deities, and humans. He was also a solar deity, associated with the evening sun.
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49	* CompositeCharacter: He was often fused with Ra, as both were {{Top God}}s associated with the sun. Sometimes he was said to be Ra's aspect that represented the evening sun, while Ra and Khepri represented morning and midday, respectively.
50	* DependingOnTheWriter: It was never really consistent as to how he created his children. The myths varied over whether he did it by breathing and spitting, masturbating, or by copulating with his own shadow.
51	* GodOfLight: He was a solar god who represented the evening sun, and was sometimes considered an aspect of Ra.
52	* TheMaker: [[DependingOnTheWriter One of several in this pantheon.]]
53	* PapaWolf: When Shu and Tefnut went into the primordial waters of the universe to explore them and disappeared, he sent the fiery Eye of Ra to retrieve them.
54	* TearsOfJoy: He shed tears of happiness when the Eye of Ra returned his lost children to him. Said tears were claimed to turn into the first human beings.
55	* TrulySingleParent: In most myths, he created Shu and Tefnut on his own by either masturbating or spitting. Some claimed he mated with his shadow instead.
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58	[[folder:Shu]]
59	!!𓈙𓆄𓅱𓀭 \| Shu [[note]]translated "emptiness" and "he who rises up"[[/note]]
60	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shu_deity.png]]
61	'''Shu''' was one of the primordial Egyptian gods. He is the brother and spouse to the goddess Tefnut and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony.
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63	* AdamAndEvePlot: All the other deities, humans and creatures are descendant from him and his sister.
64	* BlowYouAway: He was the god of air and wind.
65	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Tefnut.
66	* JustSoStory: The story of him preventing Geb and Nut from meeting each other is used to explain why sky is separate from land.
67	* KingOfBeasts: He is the god of male African lions, though unlike his sister/wife he isn't portrayed with an animal head.
68	* ParentalMarriageVeto: He does not approve his children Geb and Nut from [[BrotherSisterIncest marrying each other]], and [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Geb%2C_Nut%2C_Shu.jpg/800px-Geb%2C_Nut%2C_Shu.jpg literally keeps them apart by standing between them]]. They manage to conceive several children before being separated forever.
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71	[[folder:Tefnut]]
72	!!𓏏𓆑𓈖𓏏𓆘 \| Θέφνις \| Tefnut [[note]]translated "that water" or "to spit"[[/note]]
73	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tefnut_deity.png]]
74	'''Tefnut''' was one of the primordial Egyptian gods. She is the sister and consort to the god Shu and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony.
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76	* AdamAndEvePlot: All the other deities, humans and creatures are descended from her and her brother.
77	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Shu.
78	* CatsHateWater: Inverted; she's a lion goddess associated with moisture.
79	* KingOfBeasts: She is the goddess of female African lions and is depicted with a lioness head.
80	* MakingASplash: She was the goddess of moisture, dew, moist air and rain.
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83	[[folder:Ptah]]
84	!!𓊪𓏏𓎛𓀭 \| Φθά \| Ptah [[note]]translated "the forger"[[/note]]
85	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ptah_deity.png]]
86	'''Ptah''' is a creator god of craftsmen and architects who existed before all other things and by his will thought the world into existence. He is also the husband of Sekhmet and father of Nefertem and Maahes (either through Sekhmet or Bastet). He is the god most associated with the city of Memphis, ancient Egypt's largest city for most of its history, of which he was protector; his temple at Memphis, one of the largest in Egypt, gave us the word "Egypt".[[note]]The temple was called something like ''Hwt-ka-Ptah'' "House of the Soul of Ptah" in Egyptian; by the late Eighteenth Dynasty this was metonymized to be a name for the whole city. The Mycenaean Greeks in particular called Memphis something like ''Aukiptio'', which became ''Aigyptos'' in Classical Greek and was in turn metonymized to refer to the whole country of Egypt. "Aigyptos" passed to Latin ''Aegyptus'' and provided the name of the country in all future Western European languages, including English.[[/note]]
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88	* AnimalMotif: Bulls.
89	* TheMagnificent: He bears plenty of epithets that describe his role in ancient Egyptian religion and its importance in society at the time, such as "the beautiful face", "the lord of truth and eternity", "the master of justice and ceremonies" and "the one who listens to prayers".
90	* TheMaker: He's another creator god, though a less squicky one than Atum.
91	* ThePowerOfLanguage: In the myths which see Ptah as the creator deity, he conceives reality by thinking it and speaking it aloud.
92	* TheSacredDarkness: He has elements of a chthonic deity, through his association with the underground and the afterlife. Notably, out of the four statues of gods in the Sanctuary of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Ptah's is the only one which always remains in shadow during the days when the sun rays align with the temple's axis.
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95	[[folder:Neith]]
96	!!𓏏𓈖𓋌𓁐\| Νηΐθ \| Neith/Nit/Net/Neit [[note]]translated "she is the terrifying one"[[/note]]
97	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neith_deity.png]]
98	'''Neith''' was an early ancient Egyptian deity who was said to be the first and the prime creator. She was said to be the creator of the universe and all it contains, and she governs how it functions. She was the goddess of wisdom, weaving, the cosmos, mothers, rivers, water, childbirth, hunting, war and fate.
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100	* AnimalMotifs: While she’s usually not depicted with an animal head like a lot of the other Egyptian gods, Neith was often associated with spiders due to being known as “the great weaver” who weaved the threads of creation like a spider weaves its webs.
101	* DependingOnTheWriter: The myths varied over time as to whether she was just a river goddess or a creator deity responsible for making the universe. She was originally often worshiped as the latter in the Old Kingdom period, but this aspect of her mostly faded out when Ra took center stage as the TopGod. She was sometimes said to be married to Khnum or Ptah, and her children also varied; Sobek and Serket were attributed to her, as were Ra and Apep.
102	* TheMaker: Early myths depicted her as a creator goddess who wove the universe into existence from her loom. She was also occasionally portrayed as the mother of Ra and Apep, the embodiments of light and darkness.
103	* MasterOfThreads: Due to her symbol being a loom, the Greeks dubbed Neith a goddess of weaving during the syncretisation of Greek myths to Egyptian ones.
104	* RenaissanceMan: The description above is a good indicator that she had power over plenty of domains. Granted, she is a goddess.
105	* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Is the goddess of mothers and childbirth, as well as weaving.
106	* WarGod: This is another of her many aspects. She was often depicted carrying a bow and arrow into battle, and her symbol was a shield with two arrows over it.
107	* WomenAreWiser: Also is a goddess of wisdom, among other things.
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110	[[folder:Geb]]
111	!!𓅭𓃀𓀭 \| Geb/Seb/Keb [[note]]translated "earth"[[/note]]
112	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geb_deity.png]]
113	'''Geb''' is the god of the Earth (the element, the ground beneath people, and the planet itself). It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter created earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow.
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115	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Nut.
116	* DishingOutDirt: He represented the soil of the earth and its bountiful produce.
117	* DisturbedDoves: Geese are his sacred animals and he is depicted with one standing on his head. Therefore whenever geese flew away, the ancient Egyptians thought something bad was happening with the Earth.
118	* [[MotherNature Father Nature]]: He represented the earth, making him the male Egyptian version of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Gaia]] (and one of the few male deities to represent nature in general).
119	* GreenThumb: Also the god of nature and vegetation.
120	* SnakesAreSinister: Averted. He was sometimes associated with snakes, due to one Coffin Text describing him as the father of snake god Nehebkau, but he was a benevolent deity.
121	* StarCrossedLovers: He and Nut were separated by their parents, Shu and Tefnut, so that life could exist on the earth. This served as the JustSoStory for why the sky and the ground were far apart.
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124	[[folder:Nut]]
125	!!𓏍𓇯𓈗𓀭 \| Nenu/Nut/Nunut/Nent/Nuit [[note]]translated "sky"[[/note]]
126	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nut_deity.png]]
127	'''Nut''' is the goddess of the sky, stars, mothers, astronomy and the cosmos.
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129	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She is depicted with dark blue skin to represent the skies.
130	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Geb.
131	* CelestialBody: Possibly the UrExample, she has stars drawn on her "skin" [[https://guidetoancientegypt.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/14630338/690926390_orig.png?1353556093]].
132	* LegFocus: A justified example, her long and slender proportions create a dome which symbolizes the sky and cosmos above the Earth.
133	* LongestPregnancyEver: Because Ra feared that her and Geb's children would overthrow him, he forbade her from giving birth on any day of the year. She was stuck with this kind of pregnancy until she went to Thoth, who gambled with Khonsu for moonlight to make four (or five) days for her to give birth to her children: Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys (and, depending on the version, [[DependingOnTheWriter Horus]]).
134	* StarCrossedLovers: She and Geb were separated by their parents, Shu and Tefnut, so that life could exist on the earth. This served as the JustSoStory for why the sky and the ground were far apart.
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137	[[folder:Amun]]
138	!!𓇋𓏠𓈖𓁩 \| Ἄμμων \| Amun/Amon/Ammon/Amen [[note]]translated "the hidden one"[[/note]]
139	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/320px_amun_post_amarna_azure_skin_colorsvg.png]]
140	'''Amun''' is a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. With the 11th dynasty (c. 21st century BC), Amun rose to the position of patron deity of Thebes (supplanting Montu) and gained more widespread prominence during the Theban dynasty, during which he was often conflated with Ra. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. During the Amarna period, his consort was instead the goddess Mut and they formed the Theban Triad with their son, Khonsu.
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142	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He was sometimes portrayed with blue skin, usually in the Amun-Ra persona.
143	* BedTrick: To legitimize her rule as Pharaoh, UsefulNotes/{{Hatshepsut}} claimed that she was Amun's daughter by way of him disguising himself as her father, Thutmose I, to sleep with her mother.
144	* BreakoutCharacter: He was originally just another member of the Ogdoad, but eventually rose in individual importance to become the patron god of Thebes, which was the capital during the Eighteenth Dynasty period, and a TopGod who ruled the pantheon.
145	* CompositeCharacter: He was combined with Ra into the deity Amun-Ra, as well as [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]].
146	* TopGod: He was the patron deity of Thebes, which was Egypt's capital during much of the New Dynasty, and was thus seen as this for a time (especially as Amun-Ra).
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149	!!Major Deities
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151	[[folder:Ra]]
152	!!𓂋𓂝𓇳𓏤𓁛/𓇳𓏤𓁛/𓁛𓇳 \| Ra/Rê[[note]]''rˁ'', also the word for the sun itself; thought to have been pronounced ''rīˁu'' in Middle Egyptian (ˁ is a guttural sound like the Arabic ''ayn'')[[/note]]
153	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ra_deity.png]]
154	'''Ra''' was the primary Egyptian sun god and sometimes creator god (being identified with Atum, Amun, and Ptah at various points). Ra was the king of the deities--and the deity of kings (or one of them): for most of Egyptian history, the monarch's ''Nesut-bity'' or "throne name" almost invariably invoked Ra (e.g. Neferirkare[[note]]"Beautiful is the Creation of the Soul of Ra"[[/note]] Kakai,[[note]]Old Kingdom Fifth Dynasty, r. 25th century BCE[[/note]] Khakaure[[note]]"The Soul of Ra Has Appeared"[[/note]] Senuseret III,[[note]]Middle Kingdom Twelfth Dynasty, r. 1878–1839 BCE[[/note]] Nebmaatre[[note]]"The Possessor of Truth/Justice Is Ra"[[/note]] Amenhotep III,[[note]]New Kingdom Eighteenth Dynasty, r. c.1391–1353 BCE[[/note]] and Usermaatre Setepenre[[note]]"Powerful Is the Truth/Justice of Ra, Elect of Ra"[[/note]] UsefulNotes/RamsesII[[note]]New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty, r. 1279–1213 BCE[[/note]]).
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156	One of his aspects was the sun disc Aten, which became the principal deity under the reign of UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} (to the woe of the Amun-Ra clergy). After his death, worship of Ra was made central again. As the TopGod for thousands of years, Ra was often combined with other deities like Amun and Atum; such combined forms were known as Amun-Ra and Atum-Ra. He had many other names, with each part of the sun or time of day of the sun often having its own name.
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158	The most common myth about him was that he sailed across the sky in a solar barge during the day and through the underworld at night. Though he always brought the sun's warmth, he battled every day and night with the EldritchAbomination, Apep (Apophis), to prevent him from ending the world. Ra was seen as a benevolent deity who embodied the positive traits of the sun, but was also aloof and above involving himself in the other gods' squabbles.
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160	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His Amun-Ra form was portrayed with blue skin after the Amarna Period.
161	* AnimalMotifs: He was usually depicted in artwork as a man with the head of a falcon, a scarab (in his form as Khepri), a cat (especially when in contrast with the snake demon Apep), or a ram. He was also pictured as a full-bodied ram, beetle, phoenix, heron, serpent, bull, cat, or lion, among others.
162	* ArchEnemy: He was this to Apep. The serpent came into being from Ra's umbilical cord after the sun god's birth, and the two spent the rest of their lives in constant struggle, Apep seeking to destroy the world while Ra fought to prevent this.
163	* BigGood: Ra's existence ensures the existence of light and life. Reality couldn't exist if he died because he's the only God who's protecting reality by fighting Apophis at a daily basis.
164	* CainAndAbel: He and Apep were said to come from the same umbilical cord, though some other myths held that they originated from the same primordial waters of the universe instead.
165	* CompositeCharacter: He and Amun would often be combined into Amun-Ra, especially during the New Kingdom Period. He was also occasionally conflated with Atum or Horus; the shared form of Ra and Horus was called Ra-Horakhty.
166	* DisproportionateRetribution: His response to the insufficient respect from his followers was to order Sekhmet to ''massacre humanity''. He only backtracked when Sekhmet was ''too'' bloodthirsty about it and stopped her by having Thoth trick her into drinking red beer that she mistook for blood.
167	* DistaffCounterpart: His female aspect was Raet-Tawy, who was sometimes considered a wife of Montu.
168	* DivineIncest: Hathor was considered his mother, wife, and daughter all in one, which symbolized the cycle of rebirth as the sun rose and set each day because she was a sky goddess and he was a solar god.
169	* EatenAlive: If Apep ever got the drop on him during their never-ending battle, he would end up as this and the result was seen as a solar eclipse. However, just like how the sun always emerges from an eclipse, Ra would always escape afterwards.
170	* GodOfLight: He was the embodiment of the sun in the pantheon and was seen as the "main" solar deity, especially during the New Kingdom.
171	* TheGoodKing: Occasional genocidal tantrums aside, he was worshiped as the benevolent king of the gods and the great source of light and life.
172	* JerkassGods: At his worst. He sent Sekhmet on a murderous rampage against humanity solely because they weren't respecting him enough, and only ended it because he thought she was overdoing it.
173	* LightEmUp: As the god of light, he was associated with the sun and used boats known as Solar Barques to travel.
174	* LightIsGood: He's the God of the Sun, and the protector of reality. That said, he also has a bit of a dark side, such as when he sent Sekhmet to destroy mortals who were conspiring against him.
175	* NobleBirdOfPrey: He was often portrayed with a falcon's head, and was worshiped as a king who defended the world from the monstrous Apep by doing battle with him on a solar barque every day and night.
176	* ThePowerOfTheSun: He was thought to embody its positive, life-giving qualities and traveled on a solar barge.
177	* {{Shapeshifter}}: During dawn and the morning hours, he's depicted as a Scarab who pushes the sun upwards; at noon; he becomes the iconic eagle-man, and finally, at dusk, he becomes the more human Atum, the God of the setting sun.
178	* TopGod: Naturally, as king of the gods. After Isis' coup, he remained king of the heavens but ceded the Earth to Horus, and concentrated his efforts on the battle with Apep.
179	* YouCantFightFate: He tried to avert a prophecy that a child of the sky goddess, Nut, would be evil, by forbidding her from having children on any day of the year. Thoth gambled with the moon and won moonlight to create five extra days so Nut could give birth anyway (hence why the Egyptian calendar had twelve months of 30 days even, and an extra thirteenth month of just five days). In the end, Nut's children, particularly Isis, did end up usurping him.
180	[[/folder]]
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182	[[folder:Hathor]]
183	!!𓉡 \| Ἁθώρ \| Hathor/Hut-hor [[note]]''ḥw.t-ḥr'', literally "Horus' sanctum"; thought to have been pronounced ''ḥāwit-ḥāru'' in Middle Egyptian (ḥ is a harsh H-sound like the Arabic ''ḥā’'')[[/note]]
184	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hathor_deity.png]]
185	'''Hathor''' was the goddess of love, sex, music, [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl drunkenness]], motherhood, [[MsFanservice beauty]], joy, the stars, and the sky. She was an important goddess to women and one of Egypt's most important sky deities. Cows were sacred to her; she is a cattle FoodGod in her earliest representations. In different stories she is stated to be a wife or daughter of Ra and sometimes the wife or mother of Horus. She had a dark side embodied by the goddess of war, Sekhmet. One of her origin stories is in the ancient text [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Heavenly_Cow The Book of the Heavenly Cow]]. Additionally, she was connected with ''shai'' (ancient Egyptians' conception of fate) and was one of several goddesses who assisted the dead in the afterlife. She was one of the most important goddesses in the Old Kingdom, and while Mut and especially Isis began to gain more prominence later, Hathor never fully receded from prominence until Egyptian religion went extinct.
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187	* TheAlmightyDollar: Considered a wealth goddess because of her association with mineral wealth (gold, copper, precious stones), plenty to eat (cattle FoodGod currency), and abundance festivals. She also gained an association with trade with foreign lands. Another case where LoveGoddess overlaps with wealth/money power.
188	* AnimalMotifs: Often pictured in the form of a cow, or a human with cow ears.
189	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Her other avatar is [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the bloodthirsty Sekhmet]].
190	* CompositeCharacter: A strange case; she seems to have absorbed aspects of other goddesses because she was favoured under the Old Kingdom court, making her an out-of-universe example of TheAssimilator as well. This is probably one of the reasons some texts speak of "Seven Hathors" (and sometimes of many more versions of her - as many as 362). In particular, she is known to have absorbed aspects of Bat and an early crocodile god who was worshipped at Dendera. She was also occasionally combined with Isis, another goddess associated with motherhood.
191	* DependingOnTheWriter: Even more so than other Egyptian deities, some aspects of her characterisation (such as who her consort(s) is/are) vary pretty widely from myth to myth, probably because she's a CompositeCharacter. Some tellings also have her involved in creating the world itself in some role or other.
192	* DivineIncest: She was considered Ra's mother, daughter, and wife all in one to symbolize the cycle of rebirth as the sun rose and set each day, in keeping with her status as a sky goddess and his as a sun god. She was also considered both Horus's mother and consort, depending on whether or not she was combined with Isis.
193	* FunPersonified: She's the HotGoddess of joy, music, and booze. Basically, she's the goddess of parties.
194	* GoingCommando: May have made a habit of doing this, as one anecdote (described below under LovableSexManiac) has her flashing her genitalia at Ra.[[note]]It's not entirely clear if ancient Egyptian women made a habit of wearing undergarments to begin with, although King Tutankhamun was found buried with numerous linen loincloths that suggest that at least men wore them.[[/note]]
195	* GoodBadGirl: As long as she isn't in her Sekhmet guise, anyway. One surviving text compares the goddess Mut to a faithful wife and Hathor to a strange woman who tempts a married man, but Hathor is unambiguously good (as long as she hasn't turned into Sekhmet).
196	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: As humorously summed up by ''Series/StargateSG1'':
197	-->'''Daniel Jackson:''' Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of fertility, inebriety, and music.\
198	'''Jack O'Neill''': Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll?\
199	'''Daniel Jackson:''' In a manner of speaking.
200	* HealerGod: She was occasionally associated with healing. One tale told of how she healed Horus's eyes, which had been gouged out in a fight with Set, by pouring gazelle's milk onto them.
201	* HotGoddess: The goddess of beauty and love.
202	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Depending on her form she is either a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty destroyer]] or a HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
203	* JekyllAndHyde: She's a sweet, motherly cow deity whose alternate form is the savage lioness goddess Sekhmet. Some versions of the Sekhmet myth posit that the "Hyde" personality was the original one and Hathor came into being as Sekhmet's alter-ego (because Sekhmet was changed into a cow while sleeping after drinking blood-red beer) instead of the other way around.
204	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: An InUniverse example. She's been paired off with almost every major god in the Egyptian pantheon in different versions of the mythology, though she was most popularly associated with Horus and Ra.
205	* LovableSexManiac: Often comes across this way. In one story, Ra was feeling upset after an insult by another god, Babi, and lied on his back alone; Hathor managed to get him to return to his duties as ruler of the gods by flashing her genitalia at him, which sexually aroused him and, for some reason, made him laugh. Order and life were said to be dependent upon Ra's actions, and Hathor thus averted a catastrophe.
206	* LoveGoddess: She was worshiped as the goddess of love and the epitome of feminine beauty in Egyptian culture.
207	* TheMaker: A DependingOnTheWriter example. Some tellings give her the role of the Hand of Atum, which makes her instrumental in the creation of the world; other tellings give that role to Nebethetepet or Iusaaset. In yet another telling from the Ptolemaic Period, the world results from a coupling between Khonsu and Hathor.
208	* ReallyGetsAround: Like several of the other Egyptian pantheon. She had children or was romantically or sexually linked with several different deities, including Ra, Montu, Khonsu, Atum, Amun, Horus, and Shu. She is also more frankly sexual than the other Egyptian goddesses of love or motherhood. That said, Hathor may also be a CompositeCharacter in a sense, as she may have subsumed a number of other goddesses who became regarded as manifestations of Hathor - a number of Egyptian texts actually speak of "Seven Hathors", or less commonly of even more (as many as 362, in fact). As a result, Egyptologist Robyn Gillam refers to her as "a type of deity rather than a single entity", where each specific deity may not have been ''that'' promiscuous.
209	* {{Sex God}}dess: Beyond literally being the goddess of sex, there's also plenty of textual evidence suggesting that she was quite skilled in bed.
210	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Judging from the anecdote under LovableSexManiac. She had a pragmatic reason for her actions too, though (namely, preventing the cosmos from falling into chaos).
211	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: When she becomes Sekhmet, she becomes a bloodthirsty maniac hell-bent on killing everyone in her way.
212	* {{Tsundere}}: A particularly severe example, as she is normally joyful, fun-loving, and affectionate, but saying she has a severe temper is an understatement; her dark side is the OmnicidalManiac Sekhmet. Egyptians made offerings to her to keep her temper in check, and various mythological texts note that the gods and goddesses played music and danced for her for the exact same reason. Egyptologists hold that the dichotomy between Sekhmet and Hathor illustrates ancient Egyptians' conception that femininity, in Carolyn Graves-Brown's words, "encompassed both extreme passions of fury and love," probably better than any other goddess does.
213	* YouCantFightFate: Possibly averted. She is associated with fate, particularly in stories involving the "Seven Hathors", and ancient Egyptians tended to think of fate as inexorable, but the fates she foretells merely seem to be possible readings of the future. "The Tale of the Doomed Prince" only survives in fragments, and its ending is missing, but the surviving segments show that the titular prince escapes one of the possible violent deaths the Seven Hathors have foretold for him and suggest that he may be able to escape his fate entirely with the gods' help.
214	[[/folder]]
215
216	[[folder:Osiris]]
217	!!𓊨𓁹𓀭 \| Osiris/Wesir [[note]]''ws-jr''[[/note]]
218	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/osiris_deity.png]]
219
220	'''Osiris''' is the god of the afterlife, of the fertile vegetation of the Nile valley, and of resurrection and rebirth. He is the son of the primordial earth god Geb and sky goddess Nut, along with his siblings Isis, Nephthys, and Set. Along with his Isis and Anubis, he oversees the weighing of the heart and lets souls enter the afterlife if they pass the test. He is a very prominent example of a Life-Death-Rebirth god. He was the king of Egypt after his father Geb (or in other versions Ra) stepped down. Set tricked him into entering a coffin and killed him by throwing him into the Nile. When his wife Isis managed to find the body, Set tore it apart, scattering his pieces across Egypt. His pieces were found and he was eventually resurrected thanks to the efforts of Isis and Anubis. Yet, because he had died, he stayed in the land of the dead, becoming its ruler.
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222	* AdaptationalHeroism: In earlier myths he's not as benevolent as in the Osirian cycle, which made him TheGoodKing to emphasize Set's villainy for killing him.
223	* {{Animal Motif}}: He was sometimes associated with frogs because the frog goddess Heqet breathed life into Horus's body when he was born, and thus also Osiris's body when he was resurrected. Other times, he was associated with the Bennu (a gray heron-like bird that represented the sun) to symbolize his rebirth.
224	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Has greenish skin in most artwork, representing his dominion over life and fertility.
225	* BackFromTheDead: As a result of Isis' magic ritual, he was resurrected and was thus able to conceive Horus with her. Because his body had died, however, he remained in the afterlife and ruled there from then on.
226	* BrotherSisterIncest: His wife Isis is most commonly also his sister.
227	* CainAndAbel: He was TheGoodKing who was murdered by his treacherous brother, Set.
228	* CameBackWrong: Sort of. He was able to return to life because of Isis's rituals, but he had to reign over the underworld from then on because he could only be revived as an undead being.
229	* DarkIsNotEvil: He ruled the afterlife after his death, and was as benevolent there as he was in life.
230	* DestinationHostUnreachable: After being murdered by Set, Osiris was resurrected twice but couldn't stay in our world either time. The first time, he died almost immediately after having sex with Isis and impregnating her with Horus. The second time, he was shuffled off to the underworld to rule over the dead. This wasn't such a bad deal for him, though, as in Egyptian mythology the underworld is a pretty nice place, more akin to heaven than to other mythological underworlds. And Osiris stayed a powerful god and was venerated by the people of Egypt as one of their chief deities.
231	* DisappearedDad: Due to being killed before Horus's birth and resurrected for only a brief time to conceive him with Isis, he was this for Horus and had next to no involvement with his upbringing.
232	* DismemberingTheBody: His body was torn apart and scattered across Egypt after Set killed him; to resurrect him, Isis had to find all the pieces and reassemble them.
233	* DistressedDude: The UrExample. A central point of Egyptian mythology is the story of Isis having to rescue him (and resurrect him with the help of Anubis) after he had been killed by Set.
234	* GodOfTheDead: He was the main god of the dead, ruling over the spirits of the virtuous in the afterlife of the Field of Reeds.
235	* TheGoodKing: He was a benevolent king whose reign brought prosperity to Egypt while he was alive.
236	* GroinAttack: Set not only cut him into fourteen pieces, but also fed his penis to a catfish. In order to conceive Horus, Isis crafted him a prosthetic one from solid gold.
237	* HappilyMarried: He and Isis were worshiped as the ideal husband and wife when the Horus cult was in power.
238	* InhumanHuman: Maybe, as he's usually portrayed as a blue- or green-skinned mummy after his resurrection. He was still able to impregnate Isis, though.
239	* LifeDeathJuxtaposition: He is both a fertility god ("Lord of the black Sands", referring to the fertile, black mud that the Nile left behind each time it flooded) and the ruler of dead while being NotQuiteDead himself.
240	* NoodleIncident: Osiris's murder was a taboo subject in the original Egyptian texts, due to the belief that written words could affect reality and writing about a topic as grave as Osiris's death would thus bring great misfortune. Because of this, his murder was only alluded to or implied, and how Set killed him is never described clearly (the myth about Set tricking Osiris into getting in a coffin that he sealed shut is strictly a Greek adaptation by Plutarch). The texts implied that Set either drowned Osiris in the Nile or took the form of a crocodile or bull to kill him.
241	* ScalesOfJustice: Although he's depicted with them less often than Anubis, Osiris is often shown in art presiding over the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, during which Anubis uses the Scales of Ma'at to weigh the deceased's heart against the Feather of Ma'at.
242	* TooDumbToLive: In the myth where he had an affair with Nephthys, he comes off as this for blindly trusting Set and getting into the coffin that Set uses to kill him.
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:Isis]]
246	!!𓊨𓏏𓆇𓁐 \| Ἶσις \| Isis/Aset [[note]]''js.t'', thought to have been pronounced ''ūsaʔ'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
247	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isis_deity.png]]
248	'''Isis''' was the goddess of magic, healing, and motherhood. Her struggles against her brother Set to rescue her murdered husband-brother Osiris and secure the throne of Egypt for her son Horus formed a hugely popular saga in ancient times. An annual festival of Osiris was held to commemorate the event, always including a re-enactment of the myth. One of Isis's titles was [[IKnowYourTrueName She Who Knows All Names]] (a fairly menacing moniker, as name-based cursing was considered lethal by the Egyptians), and indeed, she was said to be the only being who knew Ra's true name.
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250	* TheArchmage: The only god who could compete with her based on sheer breadth and power of spells was Thoth.
251	* {{Animal Motifs}}: Quite a few animals were asscociated with her. Note that they're all often creatures considered vile in western cultures.
252	** [[NobleBirdOfPrey Birds of prey]]: Vultures, which were sacred to her, and she was often wearing a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_crown vulture crown]] in her depictions. She's also often drawn with hawk's wings in place of arms.
253	** Scorpions: She tends to be accompanied by them due to the association of nurtering their babies. One time she and Horus were guarded by seven of them one time when travelling.
254	** Snakes, whether wearing a crown based off one or making one out of mud to scheme against Ra.
255	* BitchInSheepsClothing: At her worst. Even though she still presented as a benevolent goddess, Isis convinced Ra to tell her his secret name by poisoning him and waiting for him to be too overwhelmed by agony to refuse. She was also depicted as deceitful and manipulative.
256	* BreakoutCharacter: Isis has the distinction of remaining incredibly popular even after worship of the Egyptian gods waned in the face of Hellenization. She was originally a consort goddess to Osiris who played a supporting role in his resurrection, but became a major goddess (sometime even a TopGod for a long period of time) when the Horus cult rose to power. She also had many temples in her name in Greece, where she had her own epithets (Isidoros and Isidora), and her cult extended to Rome for centuries.
257	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Osiris.
258	* CompositeCharacter: She was often combined with Hathor, Serket, and Nekhbet, taking several aspects from them (motherhood, healing, and protection).
259	* TheCoup: After forcing Ra to tell her his secret name, she forced him to step down so Horus could assume the throne.
260	* GodOfKnowledge: She was usually considered the goddess that governed Heka, the Ancient Egyptian system of magic. She later became much more powerful after forcing the sun god Ra to reveal his true name to her.
261	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She was either this or TheHighQueen, or both, depending on the myth. She had a manipulative and ruthless streak of her own, as shown by the story where she poisoned Ra to force him into telling her his true name to receive her healing.
262	* HappilyMarried: She and Osiris were held as the ideal couple when the Horus cult was in power, and the great efforts she undertook to bring him back to life after Set killed him proved how much she loved him.
263	* HealerGod: She was known for her healing magic, which included reviving Osiris and curing the son of a noblewoman who insulted her of his scorpion stings.
264	* TheHighQueen: She was also Osiris's benevolent consort and Horus's queen mother, who was revered as a loving maternal figure by the Egyptian people. This was best exemplified by the story "Isis and the Seven Scorpions", where she not only forgave a rich noblewoman for insulting her and refusing her shelter (as Isis had been in a beggar's guise), but also healed the woman's son when he was poisoned by the eponymous scorpions as revenge against the noblewoman. Compare that to, say, the Greek gods, who had many stories where they killed mortals for similar transgressions.
265	%%* HotWitch: She is the goddess of magic.
266	* ILoveTheDead: With Osiris' corpse, though she also brought him back to life.
267	* IWillFindYou: She had to search for Osiris's body twice (once when he was killed by Set by way of being thrown into the Nile in a coffin, and again when Set tore his body into pieces and scattered them across Egypt).
268	* LadyOfWar: She was a regal and graceful mother goddess, as well as a powerful magic user who wielded many spells and fought fiercely to protect her son from Set.
269	* LosingYourHead: After accidentally disrupting a fight between Horus and Seth, thus causing the fight to be declared null, Horus beheaded her in a fit of rage. Thoth gave her a cow's head to replace it, serving as the explanation for why Isis was a CompositeCharacter with Hathor in some myths.
270	* MamaBear: She went to great lengths to make Horus king and protect him from Set.
271	* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: In one story, Isis secretly sent a snake to poison Ra. While he was in pain, she bargained for him to give her his true name and to let Osiris be his heir. Ra reluctantly complied.
272	* {{Necromantic}}: Using spells taught to her by Thoth, she resurrected Osiris and Horus, though the former was only long enough for them to conceive.
273	* NotWhatItLooksLike: In one myth, after one of Osiris' deaths, his coffin was sealed inside a pillar in a noblewoman's house. Isis posed as a nurse to the woman's child to get close to her husband, and grew fond of the boy. One day the mother found Isis had set her son on fire and snatched him away... but those flames would have made the kid immortal, and now he was just like any other child.
274	* ScalesOfJustice: Is sometimes depicted assisting during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony.
275	* {{Scary Scorpions}}: {{Averted\| trope}}. Isis was associated with scorpions, but she was one of the more benevolent deities, and the association is likely to have originated from female scorpions' carrying their young on their backs to defend them, corresponding to Isis' role as a mother figure and her own protection over baby Horus.
276	* UndyingLoyalty: She was defined by her intense loyalty as Osiris's wife through the lengths she went to in order to resurrect him.
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	[[folder:Set]]
280	!!𓇓𓏲𓏏𓄡𓃩𓀭/𓋴𓏏𓈙/𓊃𓏏𓄡 \| Set/Seth/Sutekh [[note]]''stẖ'', thought to have been pronounced ''sūtiẖ'' (ẖ pronounced like the "h" in "huge")[[/note]]
281	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seth_deity.png]]
282	'''Set''' was a god associated with chaos, storms and the desert. Originally, he served as a powerful protector deity of Upper Egypt. He guarded Ra on his nightly trips to the underworld and was the only god who could defeat the serpent Apophis and resist his hypnotic gaze. When Egypt was unified and the worship of Horus became dominant, Set was increasingly villainized, particularly after Egypt was invaded by a people who identified him with their own chief god. The most famous story about him is his killing of his brother Osiris for the throne of Egypt and his contests with Horus over it.
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284	* AnimalMotifs: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_animal We're not sure what animal, though]]. Possibly an aardvark, otherwise it's just called the [[ShapedLikeItself 'Set animal']].
285	* AngryAngryHippos: The red hippo is one of the animals associated with him. In one of the myths concerning his rivalry with Horus, they both turned into hippos and fought one another bloodily.
286	* AdaptationalVillainy:
287	** He was originally a protective deity who defended Ra from Apep, but was gradually demonized when Egypt split into Upper and Lower sections (and as the Horus cult gained in popularity). He was fully cemented as a GodOfEvil after the Third Intermediate Period, when Egypt was ruled by foreigners who favored the worship of Seth.
288	** Modern pop culture often ramps up his villainy and associates him with Apep, even though he opposed Apep just as much as the other gods did.
289	* ArchnemesisDad: He was enemies with his son/nephew Anubis, who sided with Osiris over him. Although they rarely had much actual interaction in the myths, one story in the Jumilhac Papyrus recounted how Anubis stopped him from using a leopard form to attack Osiris's body by flaying him and taking his skin. Because of this, priests usually wore leopard skins to commemorate Anubis's victory over Set.
290	* TheBeastmaster: He's associated with many animals, including jackals, hippos, snakes, wild boars, crocodiles, asses, and antelopes.
291	* BigBad: He's the main villain of the Osiris myth, where he kills Osiris, takes this throne, and drives Isis into exile until Osiris and Isis's son, Horus, grows up to challenge him.
292	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Nephthys.
293	* CainAndAbel: The Osiris myth depicts him as a treacherous villain who murders his brother, Osiris, and usurps his throne.
294	* CartoonCreature: No one really knows which animal his head was supposed to represent. Either it was completely made up, or the depiction was stylized until it became unrecognizable. Theories include some kind of canine stylized to prevent confusion with Anubis, a donkey, a hyena, or an animal that's now extinct.
295	* DarkIsNotEvil: Pre-demonization, he was still a destructive deity of desert and storms. The folk religion practiced by commoners in rural areas had a tendancy to view him this way even when city-folk demonized him. For what it's worth, modern Kemetics tend to go with this earlier interpretation.
296	* {{Demonization}}: Set was portrayed as a good guy in the older myths. Despite his sneakiness, Egyptians still recognized that he was Ra's chief protector against Apep during his journey through the underworld. However, he became increasingly demonized after the end of the New Kingdom period, as Egypt came to be ruled by foreigners (a domain of Set). By the Late Period, he had pretty much taken over Apep's role as the BigBad of the Egyptian religion.
297	* DemotedToExtra: Set was originally the central god of his own cult in the Egyptian religion. The Horus myth, in which Set loses the kingship to his nephew, Horus, is theorized by some to explain how the cult of Horus triumphed over the cult of Set.
298	* DepravedBisexual: He tried to humiliate Horus by raping him, and in one myth he tried and failed to rape Isis in the form of a bull (she escaped by turning into a bird and flying away).
299	* DisproportionateRetribution: One version of the Osiris myth, listed in the Pyramid Texts, put forward that the reason Set killed Osiris was because the latter ''kicked him'' once.
300	* EarlyPersonalitySigns: Some texts claim that he violently tore his way out of his mother Nut's womb because he was too impatient to wait to be born, signifying his villainous nature from birth.
301	* EvenEvilHasStandards: He hated the vile Apep as much the other gods. So much so, he helped Ra defeat him every night.
302	* EvilRedhead: Was often depicted as one in Egyptian art as his followers were red-haired. [[ColorMotifs Red is also associated with the desert in Ancient Egypt]], which is one of the domains of Set.
303	* EvilUncle: He is Horus' uncle and has quite the antagonistic relationship with him.
304	* EvilVersusEvil: Even the more villainous Set of the later myths was still an enemy of Apep.
305	* EvilVersusOblivion: Likely why he'll still help fight Apep. If Apep destroys the world, how is he supposed to conquer it?
306	* FaceHeelTurn: Demonized after the Hyksos invasion, as he was also the god of foreigners.
307	* FeatheredFiend: In ''The Book of the Faiyum'' he has the head of a flamingo. Certainly a choice for a god of storms and chaos.
308	* GodOfChaos: Associated with chaos, though not to the extent of Apep.
309	* GodOfEvil: While Set started out as the noble protector of Ra, his murder of his brother Osiris and ''intense'' rivalry with his nephew Horus, along with his association with foreign invaders, chaos, and the desert, led to him being demonized.
310	* GroinAttack: He is on the receiving end of one in some myths - Horus castrates him. He also delivers one: when he hacks Osiris's body to pieces, he chops off the penis first and feeds it to a catfish.
311	* HeelFaceTurn: In earlier versions of the myth, he repented after Horus got the throne back and helped him rule (symbolic of the Upper and Lower parts of Egypt being united for one whole). In later versions, most prominently after the Horus cult gained more power over Egypt and wars with foreigners like the Hyksos became more frequent, he was demonized so that this never occurred and he was banished or outright killed instead.
312	* MightMakesRight: Some versions have him represent this in opposition to Horus's RightMakesMight, the conflict between rule by force and rule by birthright.
313	* MixAndMatchCritters: The ''other'' theory about his animal is that it might have been a mythical chimercal type creature that was known in ancient Egyptian mythology akin to a griffin, dragon, or kirin that's simply been forgotten with time. Of course, everyone in ancient Egypt would've known the mythology behind a . . . "jackal-aardvark" and thought it so ubiquitous that nobody apparently ever bothered to write its origin story and basic description down.
314	* MurderersAreRapists: He murdered his brother and raped (or tried to, depending on the version) his nephew.
315	* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: One story has Isis magically disguise herself as a mortal maiden to attract Set's attention. When Set flirts with her, she tells him of her woes: she is the widow of a herdsman with many cattle, and when her son began to watch over the herd after his father's death, a stranger intruded in the stable, threatened him, and threw him out to take the cattle for himself. Set is outraged by the story and asks if the cattle should be given to a stranger when the master's son is still alive, causing Isis to reveal herself and tell him he has indicted himself for killing Osiris and usurping his throne.
316	* OrderVersusChaos: Set is a god of chaos, although in a "riot and disorder" way rather than Apep's "total destruction" way.
317	* ReallyGetsAround: Despite his sterility he was best-known for sexual prowess, to the point it was invoked in sex-related spells.
318	** In some earlier versions he is hardy sterile at all, given he is listed as the father of Anubis, Wepwawet and Sobek.
319	* RealMenEatMeat: Averted; despite being a tough warrior god, his favorite food was lettuce. It was considered an aphrodisiac, and he had [[TheLoinsSleepTonight fertility problems]].
320	* RedIsViolent: Set is the god of chaos, war, storms, and the desert, and is often associated with the color red.
321	* {{Revenge}}: Some myths posit that he murdered Osiris in revenge for sleeping with his wife Nephthys.
322	* TricksterGod: His more benevolent interpretations painted him as this--wily and cunning, but ultimately doing what he did for the greater good.
323	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: An AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of CartoonCreature above, which also ties in with being a TricksterGod: the nonsensical creature head symbolizing transformation at will.
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:Nephthys]]
327	!!𓉠𓏏𓆇\| Νέφθυς \| Nephthys/Nebet-hut [[note]]''nb.t-ḥw.t'', literally "lady of the enclosure"; thought to have been pronounced ''nībat ḥāwiʔ'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
328	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nepthys_deity.png]]
329	'''Nephthys''' was a funerary goddess, mother of Anubis (in some stories), and wife of Set. She eventually became associated with death and the afterlife after Osiris' cult took prominence, but her original nature is unknown. She was one of several goddesses who welcomed the dead into the afterlife.
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331	* AnimalMotif: She's one of the few Egyptian deities to ''not'' have a heavy association with a particular animal, but she ''does'' get linked to kites on occasion, as the Egyptians compared their cries to the wails of a mourning woman.
332	* AwfulWeddedLife: Her marriage to Set was occasionally depicted as unhappy or abusive to further demonize Set and/or justify her BedTrick with Osiris.
333	* BedTrick: Disguised herself as Isis once and slept with Osiris, which was how Anubis was conceived in some later tellings.
334	* BreathWeapon: According to certain sources, she was capable of breathing fire to incinerate the enemies of the pharaoh.
335	* BrotherSisterIncest: With Set, her husband. In some versions she also had this with Osiris, who she {{Bed Trick}}ed.
336	* ContinuitySnarl: Scholars suspect that this might explain her contrasting characterizations: Set's cult (with emphasized him as the protector against Apophis) made her his wife, Osiris' cult (which emphasized Set as a murderer) made her his and Isis' ally, and later interpreters were left to make sense of the story.
337	* DarkerAndEdgier: When associated with the afterlife.
338	* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being associated with death, her role was rather to protect and guide the souls of the dead. BedTrick of Osiris in some myths aside, she was Isis's loyal ally in protecting Horus and was never portrayed as actively villainous like her husband Set.
339	* OutOfFocus: Nephthys never really received much individual attention in the myths compared to her siblings. She usually only appeared in relation to Isis, Set, or Osiris, and there are few stories where she is the main focus.
340	* UndyingLoyalty: Unlike Set, she was staunchly loyal to Osiris and Isis and helped the latter protect and raise Horus in hiding.
341	* WaterIsWomanly: The goddess of rivers and childbirth. In the Horus legend, she provided refuge to Isis after Set dismembered her husband, Osiris, and threatened to kill their child, whom Nephthys raised. The child, Horus, ended up overthrowing Set and becoming the new pharaoh. As a result, she also came to symbolize divine guardianship.
342	[[/folder]]
343
344	[[folder:Anubis]]
345	!!𓇋𓈖𓊪𓅱𓃣 \| Ἄνουβις \| Anubis/Anpu/Inpu [[note]]''jnpw'', thought to have been pronounced ''ʔanāpa'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
346	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anubis_deity.png]]
347
348	'''Anubis''', the jackal god of mummification, judge of souls, Guardian of the Scales, and lesser god of the afterlife, is the most recognizable of all Egyptian gods. His parentage is disputed depending on the source; he is sometimes considered the son of Osiris and Nephthys through an affair, but more commonly considered the son of Set and Nephthys. However, unlike Set, Anubis had great compassion for humanity, and their differences went so far as to lead to Set abandoning him. He later became one of Horus's chief allies against Set. He weighs every dead person's heart against the feather of Ma'at (Justice); if it's too heavy from wicked deeds, the heart gets eaten by a nearby monster, Ammit the Devourer of the Dead. Otherwise, the righteous dead person may proceed to the Afterlife.
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350	* AdaptationalVillainy: While by no means evil in Egyptian Mythology, he's often portrayed as an [[EverybodyHatesHades evil death god]] in pop-culture.
351	* AnimalMotif: He is prominently associated with jackals due to their tendency to hang around graveyards.[[note]]Recent biological research has reclassified the animal he's associated with as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wolf wolf]].[[/note]]
352	* AscendedExtra: Often depicted as the primary Egyptian God of Death in popular media, while the truth is more complicated. There's evidence in the early dynasties of the Old Kingdom that Anubis ''was'' originally the preeminent God of Death and the Dead, but Osiris quickly surpassed him. One narrative interpretation is that Anubis stepped down from the position when Osiris entered the afterlife; another is that they actually serve different roles, and while both are gods of the afterlife, Osiris is the God of the Dead (those who dwell in the afterlife), while Anubis is the actual God of Death (the transition process between life and afterlife), which fits with one being strongly associated with kingship even in death and the other with the actual funeral rites, process of mummification, and the many post-life trials described in ''The Book of the Dead.'' The latter is further supported by the fact that, rather than having been considered the overseer of the transition between life and death as Anubis is, Osiris ''was'' (symbolically) the deceased individual undergoing funeral rites (according to surviving texts, the deceased is even ritualistically referred to as "Osiris" during said rites). It's likely this developed from some areas of Egypt worshiping Anubis as God of Death and others worshiping Osiris, and when the kingdom united a narrative was created that allowed both to coexist.
353	* BreakOutCharacter: Despite his relatively humble role in the grand scheme of Egyptian mythology, Anubis is ''the'' Egyptian god in modern pop culture. He is likely the most widely recognized Egyptian god, and whenever the ancient Egyptian pantheon needs to be represented, Anubis will always be among the roster- in some cases, even the chief god. It's not uncommon for a FantasyCounterpartCulture to even have a ''race'' of Anubis expies. The modern exaggeration of Anubis' importance is possibly due to the spike in Egyptomania in the nineteenth and twentieth century when archeologists and collectors became obsessed with Egyptian tombs and mummies, Anubis' own domain.
354	* ChildByRape: He's this in the myth where Nephthys pulls a BedTrick on Osiris and sleeps with him in the guise of Isis, conceiving Anubis.
355	* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being a god of the dead and depicted as a black jackal, he's a just god and a pretty cool guy.
356	* DependingOnTheWriter: Who his father is depends on the myth and time period. Earlier myths placed him as Set's trueborn son, but the demonization of Set after the Hyksos invasions made the myth where he was sterile and thus Anubis was actually Osiris's become more common.
357	* TheDogBitesBack: Somewhat literally. Set was not kind to Anubis and in many versions of his myth abandoned or disowned him. After Set murdered Osiris and took the throne, Anubis became one of the most ardent supporters of the ousted former royals and helped Isis partially resurrect Osiris in order to conceive an heir, Horus, who would eventually oust Set in turn. There was also the myth about him fighting Set when the latter tried to mutilate Osiris's re-assembled corpse, which ended with him branding Set's leopard form with a hot iron (the JustSoStory for the leopard's spots), ''flaying him'', and wearing his skin afterwards.
358	* EverybodyHatesHades: Often depicted as a villain in pop-culture when he was far from it.
359	* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: He was sometimes depicted as a duo with Mafdet by way of her symbol in art on royal tombs being associated with his, with Anubis being the gods' chief attendant and Mafdet being the gods' chief executioner.
360	* HeroicDog: Positive portrayals of Anubis tend to paint him like this.
361	* JudgementOfTheDead: He played an important role in the process of death, overseeing the judging of each soul and determining if they were worthy of passing on.
362	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: He's consistently the son of Nephthys, but whether his father is Set or Osiris varies in the myths.
363	* ParentalAbandonment: The myths where he is Osiris's son have Set or Nephthys, or both, abandon him and leave him to be taken in by Isis. Even in the versions where he ''is'' Set's son, though, Set is usually a lousy parent.
364	* {{Psychopomp}}: One of several gods thought to play this role.
365	* TheReliableOne: He was relatively insignificant in Egyptian mythology, standing on the sidelines just doing his job. However, the fact that his image is (obviously) plastered all over tombs led him to becoming one of the most iconic Egyptian deities in modern culture.
366	* ScalesOfJustice: Anubis was the "Guardian of the Scales" and primary wielder of the Scales of Ma'at. After death, the deceased would journey to Anubis' Hall of Truths, and there Anubis would begin the Weighing of the Heart ceremony by weighing the deceased's heart against the Feather of Ma'at. The deceased would then make a series of negative confessions before Anubis (with Osiris sometimes presiding), denying that they committed various malicious and disorderly crimes in their life. If they lied, the scales would lose balance and the heart would fail the trial. It would then be fed to Ammit.
367	* ScrewYourself: In a sense. Anubis' consort, unlike other Egyptian gods, was his female counterpart, Anput. The two even have a daughter, Kechebet, together.
368	[[/folder]]
369
370	[[folder:Bastet]]
371	!!𓎰𓏏𓏏 \| Αἴλουρος \| Bastet/Bast/Baast/B'sst/Ubasti/Ubaste [[note]]''bɜstj.t'', literally "she of the ointment jar"[[/note]]
372	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bastet_deity.png]]
373	'''Bastet''' was a cat goddess associated with the sun, fertility, music, and lionesses. She was very popular with children and the common folk because she protected them and kept their fields safe from crop-destroying pests (which cats do by eating rats and mice). Bastet had a whole city (Bubastis) devoted to her cult. Later re-appropriated by Creator/RobertBloch into Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. She also appears in Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' and as the patron goddess (and namesake) of the ComicBook/BlackPanther. Some sources have her to be the mother of Nefertem (via conceiving him along with Ptah) instead of Sekhmet.
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375	* AnimalMotifs: She appears as a small cat or a lioness.
376	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Was originally a savage lion goddess akin to Sekhmet.
377	* BreakoutCharacter: Along with Anubis, Bastet is probably the most commonly known and popular Egyptian god to casual observers despite her comparatively smaller role in the myths themselves.
378	* CatFolk: Possibly the UrExample, Bast is a humanoid with a cat head.
379	* FieryLion: Started off as a sun goddess similar to Sekhmet, with leonine features, though she became increasingly associated with domestic cats in later periods.
380	* FriendToAllChildren: As a deity who protected the household, she was also associated with the welfare of the common folk's children.
381	* HalfHumanHybrid: Often depicted with the head of a cat and as the goddess of cats.
382	* KidAppealCharacter: She was associated with children due to her role as a household protector, making her perhaps an OlderThanDirt example of this.
383	* TheLancer: After Set's demonization, Bastet takes his role as Ra's primary champion against Apep.
384	* ThePowerOfTheSun: Sometimes worshipped as a sun goddess.
385	[[/folder]]
386
387	[[folder:Horus]]
388	!!𓅃 \| Horus/Her/Heru/Haru/Hor/Har [[note]]''ḥr'', literally "falcon"; thought to have been pronounced ''ḥāru'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
389	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horus_deity.png]]
390	The name '''Horus''' can apply to any of a half a dozen gods in different roles and relationships. In some stories, he is a brother of Set, Isis, and Osiris. Most commonly, he is thought of as the child of Osiris and Isis. He contested with Set over the throne of Egypt, a struggle lasting decades, before winning. He became a god associated with the sun, moon, sky, war, righteous vengeance, and kingship. The Egyptians considered their pharaoh to be the avatar/personification of Horus on Earth.
391	----
392	* AnimalMotifs: The falcon, as he was a sky god. 𓅃
393	* BlowYouAway: The god of the sky.
394	* CompositeCharacter: He was occasionally combined with Ra (forming Ra-Horakhty) or Sobek (forming Sobek-Horus). On a slightly more confusing note, he was at one point ''two'' different characters known as Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger. Horus the Elder was Heru-ur, the son of Geb and Nut, brother to Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and lord of the sky; Horus the Younger was Heru-sa-Aset (literally "Horus, son of Isis"), the son of Osiris and Isis who challenged Set for the throne. From the New Kingdom onwards, Horus the Elder gradually fell by the wayside and was fused with Horus the Younger, and Heru-ur became just another epithet for the latter. (The only exception to this was the Greeks, who identified Horus the Elder, not the Younger, with Apollo.)
395	* DependingOnTheWriter: He is perhaps the biggest example of this in Egyptian myth, rivaled only by Hathor. Myths varied and contradicted each other over the ages as to whether he was the fifth child of Geb and Nut and thus the brother to Set, Isis, Osiris, and Nephthys, or an aspect of Ra, or a son of Ra, or the son of Osiris and Isis. Later versions seemed to settle on him being the last one (and virtually all adaptations in popular culture have followed suit), but he was still often associated with Ra (they were at times depicted as one deity named Ra-Horakhty, literally "Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons").
396	* EyeMotifs: The image of his left eye was used as a widespread symbol of healing and protection, called the Eye of Horus. 𓂀
397	* EyeScream: Had one of his eyes gouged out by Set. Thoth replaced it with a silver one, representing the moon.
398	* GenderBender: [[https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/horit/ Horit]] is his female form.
399	* GodEmperor: The Pharaohs were held to be his earthly incarnation.
400	* TheGoodKing: Like his father, he was worshiped as a benevolent king and the model for the pharaohs to strive to be like.
401	* HalfHumanHybrid: Had the head of a falcon.
402	* TheHero: He is portrayed as this in the Osiris myth, being the son of the murdered Osiris who seeks to avenge his death and take back the throne from his EvilUncle Set.
403	* HijackedByJesus: Often shoehorned into the Jesus role, especially by people who watched ''Zeitgeist''. Let's make a couple of things clear: Horus was ''not'' born on December 25th (...maybe, though his birthdate was not relevant in cults), and was most assuredly ''not'' born of a virgin. He did resemble Jesus in that he was a deity associated with healing and with resurrection - though he only "resurrected" if you go by Greek notions that he was his father, Osiris, reborn.
404	* {{Lunacy}}: Although he was associated with the Sun, he was also associated with the Moon, and it was thought that both were his eyes, the moon being the less bright eye because he was blinded by Set in their battles.
405	* NobleBirdOfPrey: His animal form was a falcon, and he was depicted in the myths as a heroic protector and king who fought evil and avenged his father's murder by defeating Set.
406	* ThePowerOfTheSun: Another sun god.
407	* RoyalBrat: The "Contendings of Horus and Seth" play, a satire that ridiculed the council of gods that dawdled on whether Set or Horus should be king, portrayed him as an immature child who cries when beaten.
408	* TopGod: Horus took his place as king of the gods instead of Ra after Isis' coup. Interestingly, Ra seems to have still held the position in an emeritus sort of way, and retained chief responsibility for fighting Apep.
409	* YouKilledMyFather: He feuds with Set over the throne to avenge his father, Osiris, after his murder at Set's hands. Rather unusually for the trope, early versions of the Osiris myth actually had Horus ''forgive'' Set for killing his father after Set repented for it, and they divided Egypt equally between them (symbolizing the union between Upper and Lower Egypt). As Set was increasingly demonized as a GodOfEvil after invasions from the Hyksos, this changed and Horus took the traditional route of banishing or killing Set in retribution instead.
410	[[/folder]]
411
412	[[folder:Sekhmet]]
413	!!𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐 \| Sekhmet/Sakhmet/Sachmis [[note]]''sḫm.t'', literally "the mighty one"; possibly ''sakhmaʔ'' in Middle Egyptian (ʔ is a glottal stop)[[/note]]
414	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sekhmet_deity.png]]
415	'''Sekhmet''', Bastet and Hathor's darker counterpart, was a lioness goddess who specialized in war, poisons, and plagues. She was an OmnicidalManiac and literal BloodKnight, until she was tricked into getting drunk with blood-colored beer. She may or may not be an alternate form of Hathor. Sekhmet was often a protector of the pharaohs and a personification of the darker side of the sun (drought, all-consuming fire etc...). She was also the wife of Ptah and in some sources both have a son named Nefertem (though other sources have Bastet as the mother instead of her).
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417	* {{Animal Motif}}: She's always portrayed as a lioness.
418	* {{Animorphism}}: The story of her rampage typically has her showing up as a straight-up lioness (with giant fangs and claws), not as a lioness-headed woman.
419	* AxCrazy: Was initially unleashed upon humanity as a punishment, but the more people she slaughtered only increased her bloodlust, until she threatened to wipe out humanity entirely.
420	* BloodKnight: Her rampage ended only when Ra got her drunk on beer made to look like blood.
421	* BreathWeapon: Sekhmet's burning breath is compared to the hot desert winds.
422	* FieryLion: A sun goddess typically depicted with a lion head.
423	* GodOfLight: A sun goddess, specifically representing the harsher aspects of the sun.
424	* GoneHorriblyRight: The gods unleashed Sekhmet as a standard punishment to humanity, but they immediately started a backup plan when she was getting increasingly high on her own carnage and ''[[ApocalypseHow trying to wipe them out completely.]]''
425	* HalfHumanHybrid: Often depicted with the head of a lioness.
426	* HeelFaceTurn: After being tricked into drinking a lake of alcohol, she becomes much more chill, and in some versions of the myth, this causes her to become Hathor, goddess of love and (appropriately enough) drinking and partying. Other myths have her become the mother goddess Bastet when she is soothed.
427	* ImAHumanitarian: Hence her being finally placated by beer made to look like blood.
428	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Depending on her form she is either a [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty destroyer]] or a HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
429	* IntoxicationEnsues: How Sekhmet was defeated: knowing that she drinks the blood of humans, Ra filled a lake with either red wine, or beer that was dyed red, so she'd be too drunk to continue her rampage.
430	* JekyllAndHyde: A savage war goddess whose alternate form is the benevolent goddess Hathor (or alternatively, the mother goddess Bastet). Some versions of the myth about her rampage reverse the usual set-up so that she starts off violent, and only gains the tame personality of Hathor after being pacified with beer she mistook for blood.
431	* LightIsNotGood: She was also associated with the sun.
432	* MonsterIsAMommy: Some sources have her being the mother of Nefertem, god of beauty and grace. She's also seen as the mother of Maahes, [[StrongFamilyResemblance another lion-headed war god]].
433	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Held titles such as the "Lady of Slaughter" and the "Mistress of Dread".
434	* OmnicidalManiac: She was originally unleashed just to take out those who betrayed Ra, but soon went out of control and tried to slaughter all of humanity.
435	* {{Plaguemaster}}: She is a war goddess, but the Egyptians were well aware that disease inevitably follows armies.
436	* ThePowerOfTheSun: As a solar deity, she is depicted wearing the solar disk and uraeus.
437	* SinisterSentientSun: She represents the negative aspects of the sun, such as its harsh light and brutal heat, and her most famous story is about how she got carried away with her ordered rampage and tried to commit genocide.
438	* ThirstyDesert: As the embodied wrath of Ra she embodies the destructive, negative aspects of the Sun.
439	* WarGod: The Egyptians had a number of war deities, but Sekhmet seems to embody bloodthirst and slaughter more than anything else.
440	[[/folder]]
441
442	[[folder:Thoth]]
443	!!𓅝𓏏𓏭𓀭/𓆓𓎛𓅱𓏏𓏭𓊹 \| Θώθ \| Thoth/Djehuty [[note]]''ḏḥwty'', thought to have been pronounced ''jiḥáuti'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
444	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thoth_deity.png]]
445
446	'''Thoth''' is the god of the moon, wisdom, medicine, astronomy, magic, and writing. He can appear as an ibis, ibis-headed man, or baboon. In one myth he was the one responsible for tricking Sekhmet into drinking blood-colored wine and ending her rampage. In some stories, he is married to Ma'at, the goddess of balance; other stories hold that he is married to the lesser-known goddess Nehmetawy (who in turn is sometimes married to Nehebkau in other stories) or to Seshat, the goddess of writing (when she wasn't depicted as his daughter).
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448	* TheArchmage: He was usually the most powerful spell user in the pantheon, and was rivaled only by Isis.
449	* {{Animal Motif}}: He is usually portrayed with the head of an ibis, and is also associated with baboons.
450	* BadassBookworm: Wise, and no less aggressive. There's a reason why the baboon is his symbol, after all.
451	* {{Bookworm}}: Thought to have invented writing and most if not all areas of knowledge.
452	* DependingOnTheWriter: His consort was hardly consistent and varied between Ma'at, Nehmetaway, or Seshat. Seshat was sometimes said to be his daughter with Ma'at instead.
453	* ExactWords: Ra forbade Nut from giving birth on any day of the year, which was then 360 days. Thoth used this to his advantage by creating five more days.
454	* GodOfKnowledge: He was considered to be the patron of most intellectual pursuits, such as writing, astronomy, medicine, and magic.
455	* GoodWithNumbers: Part of his job as when the universe was created was to calculate the optimal placement for everything.
456	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Apparently kills humans who know too much.
457	* ImmortalGenius: Credited with the creation of ''writing'' and the author of all works of science, religion, and magic.
458	* IntelligentPrimate: Thoth is the god of wisdom and sometimes associated with the Hamadryas baboon.
459	* {{Lunacy}}: [[GodOfTheMoon A moon god]]. In the Heliopolis Creation Myth, he also gambled with the moon to add five extra days to the calendar, hence 36''5'' days, to allow Nut to give birth to her children since Ra had forbidden her to give birth on any day of the year. (Some traditions give this role to Khonsu instead.)
460	* ManiacMonkeys: Less famous than his association with the ibis is that with the baboon, an animal perceived as dangerous and unpredictable to Ancient Egyptians. For even the wise Thoth kills "those who know too much" and is invoked in his most fearsome monkey visage in funerary contexts.
461	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When he saw that Nut despaired over not being able to birth her children, Thoth stepped in and helped her.
462	* TheSmartGuy: Well renowned for his intelligence.
463	[[/folder]]
464
465	[[folder:Ma'at]]
466	!!𓌴𓐙𓂝𓏏𓏛 \| Ma'at/Maat/Ma'et [[note]]''mɜˁ.t'', literally "truth" or "order"; thought to have been pronounced ''muʔˁaʔ'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
467	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maat_deity.png]]
468	'''Ma'at''', a personification of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice, the complete opposite of Apep/Apophis. The feather which symbolized her was used by Anubis to weigh and test the hearts of the dead. She was married to Thoth in some traditions. The order of the cosmos, which Ma'at embodied, was established by Ra at the dawn of time and had to be continually defended from the forces of chaos to prevent the universe from collapsing.
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470	* AbstractApotheosis: Sometimes depicted as an actual deity to be appeased, sometimes just considered an abstract concept that was beyond mortal comprehension.
471	* BalanceBetweenOrderAndChaos: An unusual example, since she is both the goddess of order and the goddess of balance - and, for that matter, the goddess of justice. One possible reading is that the existence of each of these things depends on the others - in short, that there is no order without balance or justice. In particular, Ma'at called upon the fortunate to clothe the poor and feed the hungry; the Egyptians also held that Ma'at was the spirit in which justice was applied rather than the letter of the law and that Ma'at bound all things together in unity.
472	* CosmicKeystone: The whole of the Egyptian state religion was dedicated to the protection and preservation of Ma'at, otherwise Apep would devour the universe.
473	* DistaffCounterpart: To Thoth.
474	* GodOfOrder: While most gods were considered forces of order, Ma'at is the literal embodiment of order, as she represents balance.
475	* OrderVersusChaos: Balanced against Apophis.
476	* ScalesOfJustice: Ma'at is sometimes depicted in human form helping Anubis and/or Osiris in the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony. This makes sense since the heart is weighed against Ma'at, though it is usually depicted as a feather when on the Scales.
477	* WingedHumanoid: Is often depicted with feathered wings under her human arms [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/b6/60/ceb6605e9c79a4406df53301b01c52cf.jpg]].
478	[[/folder]]
479
480	[[folder:Sobek]]
481	!!𓋴𓃀𓎡𓆊/𓆋 \| Σοῦχος \| Suchus \| Sobek/Sochet/Sobki [[note]]''sbk'', literally "the one who impregnates"; possibly ''sābik'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
482	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sobek_deity.png]]
483	'''Sobek''', a crocodile-god of the Nile, water and fertility, and occasionally patron god of the army. Seen occasionally as a creator deity, and often associated with Ra. Some say that he's Set's son.
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485	* AmbiguouslyEvil: As with his father, the religion flip-flops whether he's evil or not. Then again, seeing as he represents the duality of the river Nile (both the life giving waters, as well as the destructive floods), it's possible he operates on a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality different morality]].
486	* {{Animal Motif}}: Since he's the god of the Nile, he's associated with crocodiles.
487	* AscendedExtra: He was a minor god in the Old Kingdom, but attained prominence in later dynasties (especially in the New Kingdom) when he was combined with Horus and Ra and also became a solar god.
488	* CompositeCharacter: From the Middle Kingdom onwards, he was often fused with Horus and Ra to be Sobek-Horus and Sobek-Ra, respectively.
489	* AHeroToHisHometown: Depending on where you were, you were liable to hear people describing him as a dangerous monster who was to be feared and avoided. However, were you in the Faiyum (where the seat of his cult was), saying this would likely get you accused of blasphemy and fed to the sacred crocodiles there.
490	* InterspeciesRomance: Ironically, he was said to be lovers with the hippo goddess Tawaret. In real life, crocodiles and hippos are antagonistic animals that regularly fight over territory.
491	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was an aggressive, animalistic god with unfriendly-sounding epithets like "he who loves robbery" and "pointed of teeth", but he was also worshiped as a benevolent protector who defended the innocent from evil. Some versions of the Osiris myth have him help Isis resurrect Osiris by finding some parts of his body.
492	* MakingASplash: Due to being the god of the largest river in the world, he qualifies for this trope.
493	* MeaningfulName: A twofold example. His name is often thought to be based on the ancient Egyptian verb "to impregnate", in keeping with his ReallyGetsAround reputation. Some scholars have suggested that his name is instead derived from an alternate spelling for the ancient Egyptian verb "to unite", meaning that his name roughly translates to "he who unites [the dismembered body parts of Osiris]".
494	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Sometimes revered, sometimes reviled, he was rather ambiguous in terms of worship. He brought fertility, but his sacred animal is extremely dangerous, and he was said to take women from their husbands whenever he felt like it.
495	* OddNameOut: In a way. Most of the major Egyptian gods are popularly known in the public eye by the Greek renditions of their names (Osiris, Horus, Isis, Anubis, Thoth, etc.). Sobek is the only one to be known more by his Egyptian name than his Greek one, Suchus.
496	* ReallyGetsAround: Sexuality was a strong motif with him as a FertilityGod. His epithets include "he who steals wives from their husbands" and "Lord of semen".
497	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Zigzagged. On one hand, he was uniformly portrayed as a vicious and bestial deity who often stole women and took sadistic pleasure in battle (in keeping with the perception of crocodiles as violent predators). On the other hand, he had several prominent cults who deified him as a benevolent guardian against evil, and the Osiris myth depicted him as helpful in resurrecting Osiris.
498	* SerialHomewrecker: One of his titles literally translated to "lord of semen, who takes wives from their husbands".
499	[[/folder]]
500
501	[[folder:Heqet]]
502	!!𓎛𓈎𓏏𓆏𓋾𓈎𓏏𓁐𓎟 \| Heqet/Heket/Heqtit [[note]]translated "frog"[[/note]]
503	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heqet_deity.jpg]]
504	'''Heqet''' is an Egyptian goddess of fertility, represented in the form of a frog. To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife of Khnum by whom she became the mother of Her-ur. It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft]].
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506	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To Hecate, as mentioned above. Though Heqet predates her and possibly inspired her, notice that their names are almost identically written.
507	* FrogMen: Played with, in that she was usually portrayed as a regular human divine being instead [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Abydos_Tempelrelief_Ramses_II.jpg/800px-Abydos_Tempelrelief_Ramses_II.jpg]]. Worth knowing is that she is a "younger" deity than Kek, who is a primordial entity and thus he's the true UrExample.
508	* HealerGod: She was also a goddess of health and healing, and was worshiped by medical practitioners.
509	[[/folder]]
510
511	[[folder:Montu]]
512	!!𓏠𓈖𓍿𓅱 \| Montu/Mont/Monthu/Montju/Ment/Menthu [[note]]translated "nomad"[[/note]]
513	[[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/330px_montusvg.png]]
514	'''Montu''' was a god of war and a patron deity of Upper Egypt, especially Thebes. He represented the Pharaoh's image as a warrior and conqueror, and was affiliated with Ra and Horus. His consorts were the minor goddesses Tjenenyet and Iunit, as well as Ra's female aspect, Raet-Tawy.
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516	* AnimalMotifs: He was depicted as either a falcon or a bull, with the falcon representing his association with the sky and the bull representing his strength in war.
517	* BrutishBulls: Because bulls embodied raging strength and warfare, he was often portrayed with a bull's head. Sometimes he was said to manifest in the form of a sacred bull called Buchis.
518	* CompositeCharacter: With either Ra or Horus, other gods who symbolized kingship, to respectively form Montu-Ra or Montu-Horus.
519	* DemotedToExtra: His center of worship was Thebes, which he was originally the chief patron god of before Amun overtook him in popularity. His prominence was at its highest in the Middle Kingdom, where several pharaohs (Mentuhotep I, Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II, Sankhkare Mentuhotep III, and Nebtawyre Mentuhotep IV) took names after him, but his profile was mostly diminished afterwards in favor of Ra and Horus.
520	* GodOfLight: As an aspect of the sun god Ra, he was also a solar deity.
521	* NobleBirdOfPrey: He was a falcon god who, despite not doing much in the myths, was important as a representative of the pharaoh's warrior image.
522	* WarGod: He was a war deity that symbolized the conqueror aspect of Egyptian kings, who were expected to lead their armies in battle.
523	[[/folder]]
524
525	[[folder:Pakhet]]
526	!!𓊪𓐍𓏏𓃭 \| Pakhet/Pachet/Pehkhet/Phastet/Pasht [[note]]translated "she who scratches"[[/note]]
527	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pakhet_goddess.png]]
528	'''Pakhet''' was a goddess of war, hunting, and storms. She was said to hunt in the deserts and boundaries of Egypt near water, and was associated most often with Sekhmet and Bastet as a feline deity. She was also a protector of women and motherhood, which led to the Greeks' identification of her with Artemis.
529	----
530	* AnimalMotifs: She was usually portrayed as a lioness or caracal.
531	* GodOfLight: As a solar deity, she was also associated with Hathor and was illustrated with a sun disc headdress.
532	* WarGod: She was another lioness goddess of war, though she was depicted more often as a hunter (one who stalked prey at night) than as a warrior (one who actively fought enemies of Egypt).
533	[[/folder]]
534
535	[[folder:Seker]]
536	!!𓊃𓎡𓂋𓊞 \| Seker/Sokar/Socharis [[note]]translated "cleaning the mouth" or "hurry to me"[[/note]]
537	[[quoteright:840:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seker.png]]
538	'''Seker''' was a funerary god associated with the afterlife, as well as a patron of workers and craftsmen who made ritual objects for tombs and mummification. He was worshiped mainly in Memphis, where he was often combined with Osiris, Ptah, or both to create the deity Ptah-Seker-Osiris, representing the three aspects of the universe: creation (Ptah), stability (Seker), and death (Osiris).
539	----
540	* AnimalMotifs: Mummified falcons, referring to both his status as god of the dead and his association with Ra.
541	* CompositeCharacter: As a god of both craftsmanship and the afterlife, he was frequently combined with Ptah and Osiris. All three of them would also be merged to form the deity Ptah-Seker-Osiris, enforcing the balance between creation and death.
542	* DarkIsNotEvil: He embodied the afterlife and was affiliated with darkness and tombs, but was also a benevolent guardian and guide of the dead.
543	* MeaningfulName: His name had a few different possible meanings. It could be derived from ''skr'', "cleaning the mouth", in reference to how bodies had to be cleaned out completely from the inside in preparation to be mummified, or ''Sy-k-ri'' ("Hurry to me"), Osiris's cry to Isis after his death as described in the Pyramid Texts.
544	[[/folder]]
545
546	[[folder:Mafdet]]
547	!!𓌴𓁹𓆑𓂧𓏏𓌞𓅆 \| Mafdet/Mefdet/Maftet [[note]]translated "she who runs swiftly"[[/note]]
548	[[quoteright:800:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mafdet_goddess.png]]
549	'''Mafdet''' was the goddess of justice, judgment, and capital punishment. She was worshiped primarily as a defender of Ra (who was sometimes said to be her father) and protector of the king, especially against venomous animals. Her depictions varied between a cheetah, serval, or mongoose.
550	----
551	* AnimalJingoism: She was a protector against all venomous creatures, and was sometimes portrayed with a mongoose's head to signify the real life enmity between mongooses and snakes.
552	* AttackOnTheHeart: Her main method of executing evildoers was to rip their hearts out so she could drop them at the feet of the Pharaoh.
553	* DemotedToExtra: She was a prominent deity in the Old Kingdom, where she was depicted as Ra's main protector, but her relevance faded over time as Ra became associated with other defenders (Set, Bastet) and as Bastet's status as the chief feline goddess encroached on hers.
554	* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: She was sometimes depicted as a duo with Anubis by way of her symbol in art on royal tombs being associated with his, with Mafdet being the gods' chief executioner and Anubis being the gods' chief attendant.
555	* FurryReminder: When portrayed in her animal form, she was often given the feline characteristic of presenting Ra with the hearts of evildoers she had torn out like how a cat presents its owner with dead birds or mice.
556	* WarGod: Due to representing capital punishment, she was often called on as a protector goddess in times of war and had titles like "Piercer of Darkness".
557	[[/folder]]
558
559	[[folder:Khepri]]
560	!!𓆣𓂋𓇋𓁛 \| Khepri/Khepera/Kheper/Khepra/Chepri [[note]]translated "develop", "come into being" or "create"[[/note]]
561	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/khepri_deity.png]]
562	'''Khepri''' is a scarab-faced Egyptian god who represents the rising or morning sun. By extension, he can also represent creation and the renewal of life.
563	----
564	* {{Animal Motif}}: Dung beetles, with which Ra was also associated. The beetle pushing a ball of dung behind itself reminded the Egyptians of the way the sun moved across the sky.
565	* GodOfLight: Another solar god like Ra.
566	* LightIsGood: Like Ra, Khepri is a benevolent deity, symbolizing the life giving solar light.
567	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While the other deities are depicted as regular humans or people with animal heads and traits, this god has an entire animal as a head.
568	* ScarabPower: The TropeMaker and UrExample. When the ancient Egyptians saw dung beetles rolling balls of poop, they thought that up there in the Cosmos there is a divine scarab that does the same with the Sun.
569	[[/folder]]
570
571	[[folder:Serket]]
572	!!𓊃𓂋𓈎𓏏𓁐 \| Serket/Serqet/Selket/Selqet/Selcis [[note]]translated "she who tightens the throat" and "she who causes the throat to breathe"[[/note]]
573	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serket_deity.png]]
574	'''Serket''' is the goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic and healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion. Her family life is unknown, but she is sometimes credited as the daughter of Neith and Khnum. She is depicted as having a scorpion on her head.
575	----
576	* {{Animal Motif}}: Like Isis, she is associated with scorpions.
577	* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite her scorpion motif, she was a protector against evil and healer of all poisons. Like all deities, though, it was also a good idea to avoid getting on her bad side.
578	* DemotedToExtra: She was one of the oldest deities in Egyptian mythology and was very popular in the early days of the Old Kingdom, but over time she lost prominence. Her associations with protection, magic, and healing led to her being slowly gobbled up as Isis became more popular. Towards the end of the ancient Egyptian religion's lifespan, the few areas that still remembered Serket worshipped her as a local aspect of Isis.
579	* LadyOfBlackMagic: Was associated with ritual magic at various points.
580	* ScaryScorpions: Subverted, she is a benevolent scorpion goddess. It's her duty to protect people from venomous stings and bites, as well as heal any wounds and poisons.
581	* SigilSpam: Symbols relating to her were very common in the Pre dynastic period, although its not really known if she predated the scorpion motif or if she was created to give a face to an already popular symbol.
582	* TimeAbyss: Goddesses with scorpion motifs have been found from archeological sites that ''pre-date'' the Old Kingdom, making her more ancient than Egypt itself, and she probably goes back even further than that.
583	[[/folder]]
584
585	[[folder:Anhur]]
586	!!𓏎𓈖𓁷𓂋𓏏𓈐𓅆/𓏎𓈐𓇯𓅆 \| Anhur/Onuris/Onouris/An-Her/Anhuret/Han-Her/Inhert [[note]]translated "one who leads back the distant one" [[/note]]
587	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anhur_deity.png]]
588	'''Anhur''' was a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis. He was sometimes said to be a son of Ra and a sibling of Tefnut and Shu. His wife was a Nubian war goddess named Mehit.
589	----
590	* {{Animal Motif}}: His sacred animal is the male African lion.
591	* MeaningfulName: His name translates to "one who leads back the distant one", referencing that he brought his female equivalent, Mehit, from Nubia to be his wife.
592	* WarGod: He was the patron of the Egyptian army and the representative of its warriors. Because of this, the Greeks identified him with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Ares]].
593	[[/folder]]
594
595	[[folder:Tawaret]]
596	!!𓏏𓄿𓅨𓂋𓏏𓆗 \| Θουέρις \| Tawaret/Reret [[note]]''tɜ-wr.t'', literally "she who is great"; thought to have been pronounced ''ti-wūriʔ'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
597	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taweret_deity.png]]
598	'''Tawaret''' is the protective ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility, depicted with a hippopotamus head.
599	----
600	* {{Animal Motif}}: Hippos.
601	* AscendedExtra: Double-subversion; she is not among the chief deities, but she was a well-known household goddess.
602	* DarkIsNotEvil: Although married to the above-mentioned Set, she is generally a benevolent goddess. She protects women (pregnant women in particular), and she restrains her husband from doing evil.
603	* ExpansionPackPast: Started off as evil, then regarded as benevolent. She may also be another aspect of the above-mentioned Hathor.
604	* {{Expy}}: Has one in the form of the soul-eating demoness Ammit. Where Tawaret gives life, Ammit takes it away.
605	* GoodIsNotNice: Sometimes has to lasso her husband to keep him in line and protect humanity.
606	* HuggyHuggyHippos: A protector of pregnant women and babies depicted with the head of a hippopotamus.
607	* IHaveManyNames: Tawaret, Tuaret, Tuart, Reret, Thouéris, just to name a few.
608	* InterspeciesRomance: A very ironic one; she's a hippo, and her lover Sobek is a crocodile. In RealLife, these particular animals ''do not'' get along.
609	* [[KavorkaMan Kavorka Woman]]: Takes the form of a hippo with pendulous breasts, but she has multiple lovers and is pretty much always pregnant, so she must be doing ''something'' right!
610	* LongestPregnancyEver: Seems to always be pregnant.
611	* MamaBear: Protector of pregnant women and babies.
612	* MixAndMatchCritter: Has characteristics of a hippo, a lion, and a human, and sometimes a crocodile.
613	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Egyptian gods tend either to be fully humanoid, or have the body of a human and the head of an animal. Tawaret has the distinction of being almost entirely beastly. In some representations, she has the chimeric characteristics of multiple animals, chiefly hippos, and at other times she is simply an upright hippopotamus, but she is never seen as a normal human woman with a hippo head.
614	* PregnantBadass: Protects women and children, keeps her evil husband in line, and is perpetually pregnant.
615	* ReallyGetsAround: Is married to Set, and has Bes and Sobek (and several other gods) as lovers. Sobek seems to be her favorite, though.
616	* SympatheticAdulterer: No one seems to have a problem with her cheating on her husband, probably because he is the BigBad.
617	[[/folder]]
618
619	[[folder:Khnum]]
620	!!𓎸𓃝 \| Χνοῦβις \| Khnum [[note]]also romanised Khnemu[[/note]]
621	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/khnum_deity.png]]
622	'''Khnum''' was originally the god of the source of the Nile. Since the annual flooding of the Nile brought with it silt and clay, and its water brought life to its surroundings, he was thought to be the creator of the bodies of human children, which he made at a potter's wheel, from clay, and placed in their mothers' uteruses. He later was described as having moulded the other deities, and he had the titles "Divine Potter" and "Lord of created things from himself".
623	----
624	* {{Animal Motif}}: He has a goat's head.
625	* FaunsAndSatyrs: Played with, he is a human deity but with a ram's head.
626	* ThePowerOfCreation: He created both humans and the other deities with only a potter's wheel and clay.
627	[[/folder]]
628
629	[[folder:Renenutet]]
630	!!𓂋𓈖𓈖𓅱𓏏𓏏𓆗 \| Renenūtet/Ernūtet/Renenet [[note]]translated "to fondle, to nurse, or rear"[[/note]]
631	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/renenutet_deity.jpg]]
632	'''Renenutet''' was a goddess of nourishment and the harvest in ancient Egyptian religion. The importance of the harvest caused people to make many offerings to Renenutet during harvest time. Initially, her cult was centered in Terenuthis. This goddess was a 'nurse' who took care of the pharaoh from birth to death. She was the female counterpart of Shai, "destiny", who represented the positive destiny of the child. Along with this, Renenutet was also the Thermouthis, or Hermouthis in Greek. She embodied the fertility of the fields and was the protecter of the royal office and power. Sometimes, as the goddess of nourishment, Renenutet was seen as having a husband, Sobek. He was represented as the Nile River, the annual flooding of which deposited the fertile silt that enabled abundant harvests. The temple of Medinet Madi is dedicated to both Sobek and Renenutet.
633	----
634	* {{Animal Motif}}: Cobras.
635	* SnakePeople: Was depicted either as a cobra, or as a woman with the head of a cobra.
636	* SnakesAreSinister: Averted, she isn't evil at all.
637	[[/folder]]
638
639	[[folder:Seshat]]
640	!!𓋇𓏏𓁐/𓋈𓏏𓁐 \| Seshat/Safkhet/Sesat/Seshet/Sesheta/Seshata [[note]]translated "she who scrivens" or "she who is the scribe"[[/note]]
641	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seshat_deity.png]]
642	'''Seshat''', under various spellings, was the goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. She was seen as a scribe and record keeper, and is credited with inventing writing. She also became identified as the goddess of accounting, architecture, astronomy, astrology, building, mathematics, and surveying. In art, she was depicted as a woman with a seven-pointed emblem above her head. It is unclear what this emblem represents. This emblem is the origin of an alternate name for Seshat, '''Sefkhet-Abwy''', which means "seven-horned". She is frequently shown dressed in a cheetah or leopard hide, a symbol of funerary priests. If not shown with the hide over a dress, the pattern of the dress is that of the spotted feline. The pattern on the natural hide was thought to represent the stars, being a symbol of eternity, and to be associated with the night sky. As the divine measurer and scribe, Seshat was believed to appear to assist the pharaoh in both of these practices. It was she who recorded, by notching her palm, the time allotted to the pharaoh for his stay on the earth.
643	----
644	* {{Animal Motif}}: Cheetahs.
645	* DependingOnTheWriter: The myths varied as to whether she was the wife of Thoth or the daughter of Thoth and Ma'at.
646	* ParentChildTeam: She is sometimes depicted as the daughter of Thoth and takes care of the bureaucracy on earth while he is busy keeping the universe running smoothly.
647	* RenaissanceMan: The description above is a good indicator that she had power over plenty of domains. Granted, she is a goddess.
648	* WomenAreWiser: Also is a goddess of wisdom, among other things.
649	[[/folder]]
650
651	[[folder:Khonsu]]
652	!!𓐍𓈖𓇓𓅱 \| Khonsu/Chonsu/Khensu/Khons/Chons/Khonshu [[note]]translated "traveller"[[/note]]
653	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/khonsu_deity.png]]
654	'''Khonsu''' is the god of the moon and night, as well as time and fate (all roles he shares with Thoth). He is also considered a healer and is instrumental in creating life itself. His height of worship was during the New Kingdom period, where he formed the Theban Triad with Amun and Mut.
655	----
656	* BirdPeople: Is sometimes depicted as having the head of a bird, a falcon to be exact.
657	* TheGambler: A DependingOnTheWriter[=/=]RashomonStyle example. In some versions of the myth, he's the one responsible for giving Nut an extra five days of the year by gambling hours of moonlight and repeatedly losing to her.
658	* {{Lunacy}}: He's yet another moon god like Thoth.
659	* TheMaker: Another DependingOnTheWriter[=/=]RashomonStyle example. In a creation myth from the late Ptolemaic Period, the world results from his coupling with Hathor; another myth holds that he is the great snake who fertilises the Cosmic Egg and thereby creates the world. Khonsu is not involved in some other creation myths, in which the world instead results from an act of masturbation by Atum (usually with his hand personified by a female goddess such as Hathor, Nebethetepet, or Iusaaset). Various myths also hold that Khonsu is involved in some fashion in the creation of all living creatures, and that when he makes the crescent moon shine, women conceive, cattle become fertile, and all mouths, nostrils, and lungs are filled with fresh air.
660	* SnakesAreSinister: Averted; he takes on the guise of a snake in some stories, but he is involved in creating life itself and is also a god of healing.
661	* TimeMaster: His primary domain is the passage of time.
662	[[/folder]]
663
664	[[folder:Mut]]
665	!!𓅐𓏏𓆇𓁐 \| Mut/Maut/Mout [[note]]translated "mother"[[/note]]
666	[[quoteright:801:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mut.png]]
667	'''Mut''' was the goddess of motherhood. She was considered a creator deity who originated from the primordial waters of Nu and gave birth to the world, making her the mother of all creation. As a patron goddess of Thebes, she was the consort of Amun and formed the Theban Triad with him and their son, Khonsu. Her worship was at its most widespread during the New Kingdom.
668	----
669	* AnimalMotifs: Lionesses were affiliated with her, making her the Upper Egyptian counterpart to the Lower Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet. She was also portrayed with the wings of a vulture.
670	* CoolCrown: She was frequently depicted with the pharaoh's red-and-white double crown (symbolizing the union of Upper and Lower Egypt) and the queen's vulture headdress, wearing both at the same time.
671	* TheHighQueen: She was a benevolent mother goddess who represented queenship, and enforced the Egyptian queen's role as a maternal figure to the people.
672	* MeaningfulName: Her name was the ancient Egyptian word for "mother".
673	[[/folder]]
674
675	[[folder:Shezmu]]
676	!!𓈙𓊃𓅓𓅱𓀭 \| Shezmu/Shesmu/Schesmu [[note]]translated "wine press"[[/note]]
677	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shezmu_god.png]]
678	'''Shezmu''' was the god of wine, perfume, and ointments, which affiliated him with festivities and celebration. He was also a god of carnage and slaughter, known for his bloodlust and skill at dismemberment. The connection between his love for wine and his thirst for blood originated from the use of red wine to symbolize blood in Egyptian culture, with people offering cups and bowls of red wine as metaphorical blood when making sacrifices to the gods. He was also responsible for the sacred oils used in the embalming process for mummies.
679	----
680	* AgentPeacock: He was the god of fragrant perfumes and beautifying oils, as well as a ruthless executioner with a taste for gore.
681	* AnimalMotifs: His animal symbols were falcons and lions.
682	* BewareTheSillyOnes: He was associated with festivities and joyous celebrations, as well as singing and dancing, in addition to being a bloodthirsty maniac who used his wine press to crush in heads. His titles were things like "Lord of the Blood", "Slaughterer of Souls", and "Overthrower of the Evil at the Block".
683	* BloodKnight: Rivaled Sekhmet in his bloodthirstiness and love of slaughtering evildoers, except he used a press to do it. Fittingly, Sekhmet was sometimes said to be his mother.
684	* ImAHumanitarian: Some Old Kingdom texts had prayers for him to butcher and cook the other gods to serve them to the king for him to consume and absorb power from.
685	* OffWithHisHead: What he did to his victims. He tore off their heads and threw them into the wine press to crush them, just like grapes.
686	[[/folder]]
687
688	[[folder:Nekhbet]]
689	!!𓈖𓐍𓃀𓇑𓏏𓅐 \| Nekhbet/Nekhebit [[note]]translated "of Nekheb"[[/note]]
690	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nekhbet_goddess.png]]
691	'''Nekhbet''' is a predynastic patron goddess, the tutelary deity and protector of Upper Egypt.
692	----
693	* AnimalMotif: Vultures.
694	* CoolCrown: Was paired with her counterpart Wadjet on some pharaohs' crowns. She was also symbolized by the vulture headdress that queens and female pharaohs wore, which she was depicted with when portrayed as human. This was due to vultures being associated with motherhood (the hieroglyph for vulture, ''mwt'', was also used in the word for "mother").
695	* TheDividual: Was often invoked alongside the snake goddess Wadjet, protector of Lower Egypt; they were known together as the "Two Ladies" as joint protectors of the united realm. The ''Nebty'' or "Two Ladies" name of the king (part of the five-part royal titulary) specifically invoked them together and usually referenced the monarch's protection of both Upper and Lower Egypt. However, neither one actually did much in any myths; they were more important as symbols of Egypt than as characters.
696	* VileVulture: Averted, she was a benevolent deity and protector who was associated with motherhood and queenship.
697	[[/folder]]
698
699	[[folder:Wadjet]]
700	!!𓇅𓇌𓏏𓆗 \| Οὐτώ/Βουτώ \| Wadjet/Wedjat/Uadjet/Udjo [[note]]translated "Green One"[[/note]]
701	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wadjet_deity.jpg]]
702	Wadjet is a patron goddess and the local patron deity in the city of Dep. She eventually turned into a symbol of power and protection in general, placed on pharaohs' crowns and temples. She was specifically associated with Lower Egypt, serving as a symbol and protector of the Delta.
703	----
704	* CoolCrown: Is depicted as one, and also serves as a decoration alongside her vulture counterpart Nekhbet for the pharaoh's crown, [[https://tfwalsh.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/wadjet.jpg?w=300&h=230 which itself also qualifies for this trope]]. Her symbol was called the Uraeus.
705	* DelightfulDragon: She is a winged serpent that breathes fire... and she is also the guardian of the pharaoh and the sun god Ra.
706	* TheDividual: Was often invoked alongside the vulture goddess Nekhbet, protector of Upper Egypt; they were known together as the "Two Ladies" as joint protectors of the united realm. The ''Nebty'' or "Two Ladies" name of the king (part of the five-part royal titulary) specifically invoked them together and usually referenced the monarch's protection of both Upper and Lower Egypt. However, neither one actually did much in any myths; they were more important as symbols of Egypt than as characters.
707	* DragonsAreDivine: Wadjet is a divine serpent Goddess who protects the pharaoh and Ra.
708	* FeatheredSerpent: A good example that is as old, or even older than the two more famous TropeMakers - the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deities [[Myth/MayanMythology Kukulkan]] and [[Myth/AztecMythology Quetzalcoatl]].
709	* MixAndMatchCritters: Has been depicted as a winged snake, a snake woman, a bird woman, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs any combination of the previous depictions]].
710	* SnakesAreSinister: Averted; while serpentine, she is a benevolent protector goddess.
711	[[/folder]]
712
713	!!Minor Deities
714
715	[[folder:Apis]]
716	!!𓎛𓐑𓊪𓃒/𓅭/𓐑𓊪𓅱/𓐑𓊪 \| Apis/Hapis/Hapi-ankh [[note]]translated "bull or cow"[[/note]]
717	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apis_deity.jpg]]
718	In ancient Egyptian religion, '''Apis''' was a sacred bull worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of Ancient Egypt. Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn. Later, Apis also served as an intermediary between humans and other powerful deities. The Apis bull was an important sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians. As with the other sacred beasts Apis' importance increased over the centuries. During colonization of the conquered Egypt, Greek and Roman authors had much to say about Apis, the markings by which the black calf was recognized, the manner of his conception by a ray from heaven, his house at Memphis (with a court for his deportment), the mode of prognostication from his actions, his death, the mourning at his death, his costly burial, and the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found. Auguste Mariette's excavation of the Serapeum of Saqqara revealed the tombs of more than sixty animals, ranging from the time of Amenhotep III (c. 1387 BCE - 1350 BCE) to that of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305 BCE -- 30 BCE). Originally, each animal was buried in a separate tomb with a chapel built way above it.
719	----
720	* {{Animal Motif}}: Cows, obviously.
721	[[/folder]]
722
723	[[folder:Bes]]
724	!!𓃀𓋴𓄜 \| Bes [[note]]''bs, also spelled as Bisu''[[/note]]
725	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bes_deity.jpg]]
726	'''Bes''', a capering dwarfish god who may have been imported from Nubia. He protected children from harm and, as an opponent of evil, symbolized the enjoyment of life. Unlike the other Egyptian gods, he was represented facing forward instead of in profile.
727	----
728	* {{Animal Motif}}: Ostriches. While the other gods get animal heads, Bes wears ostrich plumes.
729	* CanonImmigrant: His unusual design was often attributed to being an import to Egypt, but recent archaeological evidence suggests he's actually one of the oldest Egyptian gods.
730	* GenderFlip: Beset, his female counterpart/aspect.
731	* HijackedByJesus: Was likely Hijacked By Jesus to become Saint Bessus, venerated in northern Italy (they both wear ostrich plumes).
732	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Portrayed as possessing an actual beard, rather than the false one of other Gods and Pharaohs.
733	[[/folder]]
734
735	[[folder:Wepwawet]]
736	!!𓄋𓈐𓏏𓏦𓃧 \| Wepwawet/Upuaut/Wep-wawet/Wepawet/Ophois [[note]]translated "opener of the ways"[[/note]]
737	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wepwawet_deity_1.jpg]]
738	'''Wepwawet''' (meaning opener of the ways) is the son of Set and Nephthys and (half)-brother of Anubis. Like his brother, he was a funerary deity who may have invented the opening of the mouth ceremony and was believe to open paths to the underworld for souls to move through while also protecting them. Although he was also a war and hunting god who was believed to move before the Pharaoh and his army to clear routes for them to proceed, being described as opening the way to victory. When accompanying the Pharaoh on a hunt, he was said to be one with a sharp arrow more powerful than the gods
739	----
740	* AnimalMotifs: Akin to Anubis, he is depicted as having a canine head. And like his brother, the actual species that is used for Wepwawet is debated- jackal, wolf (living or extinct), domestic dog, etc.
741	* OddJobGods: The god of opening the way.
742	* PaletteSwap: In order to avoid confusion with Anubis, Wepwawet is drawn either bluish or grayish in color.
743	[[/folder]]
744
745	[[folder:Babi]]
746	!!𓃀𓅡𓈒𓃀𓇌 \| Babi/Baba [[note]]translated "chief of the baboons"[[/note]]
747	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/babi_deity.jpg]]
748	'''Babi''' is an Egyptian god of hamadryas baboons and by extension -- due to erroneous beliefs that they had gone extinct -- deity of the underworld.
749	----
750	* {{Animal Motif}}: Like Thoth, he is associated with baboons.
751	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: One mural depicts him with a shaggy, cobalt blue coat.
752	* AxCrazy: Babi is feared for his behavior to attack mortals on sight.
753	* GagPenis: He's always depicted with a visible erection, due to being associated with virility on account of male baboons having noticeably high libidos.
754	* LoveGod: With testicles large enough to sit on and a sturdy erection, it was sometimes symbolized as the mast of a ferry transporting the souls of the righteous to the fields of Aaru. One spell in a funerary text identifies the deceased person's phallus with Babi, ensuring that the deceased will be able to have sexual intercourse in the afterlife.
755	* ManiacMonkeys: He's the god of all African baboons. ''Angry, horny baboons.''
756	* SoulEating: Another legend says that when Ma'at sorts out the souls of the unrighteous, she hands them over to Babi, who devours them beside a lake of fire.
757	* ToServeMan: Truer than most baboons, which were known to be extremely aggressive and omnivorous, Babi was viewed as being very bloodthirsty and lived off of entrails of man.
758	[[/folder]]
759
760	[[folder:Imhotep]]
761	!!𓇍𓅓𓊵𓏏𓊪/𓇍𓅓𓊵/𓇌𓅓𓊵 \| Imhotep [[note]]translated "the one who comes in peace"[[/note]]
762	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imhotep_deity.jpg]]
763	'''Imhotep''' was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser, the probable architect of the Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and deified.
764	----
765	* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Was a mortal human in his life, but after his death he was granted immortality and godhood.
766	* RenaissanceMan: Scholar, chancellor, architect, doctor, mage and priest. He designed the first pyramid and the first known architect, engineer, and physician in recorded history. This makes him the UrExample of polymaths in general.
767	[[/folder]]
768
769	[[folder:Nehebkau]]
770	!!𓂕 \| Nehebkau/Nehebu-Kau/Nehebkhau [[note]]translated "He Who Unites the Kas"[[/note]]
771	[[quoteright:799:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nehebkau_god_0.png]]
772
773	Nehebkau is a minor god that was once described as an evil spirit, but he was later depicted as a wise and benevolent figure that judges the dead and provides them with ka -- a part of the soul that differentiates them from the living.
774	----
775	* DelightfulDragon: He's a snake with a pair on human legs, and he's a benevolent and protective deity that serves as one of the 42 wise judges of the dead and [[GodOfGood Ra's]] advisor, though older texts depicted him in a [[DragonsAreDemonic much less noble light]].
776	* HeelFaceTurn: Nehebkau was once described as a malevolent spirit, then future texts depict him as a benevolent protector deity.
777	* WiseSerpent: Nehebkau is a snake with a pair of human legs, and his usual portrayal is that of a wise judge and royal counselor. The former comes from his role as one of the forty-two judges in Ma'at's Court (she's the goddess of truth) -- the purpose being determining which deceased souls deserve entry to the afterlife and which are to be eaten by Apep. The latter comes from the fact he's Ra's (the TopGod and solar deity) advisor. Due to syncretism, he's sometimes also a fierce but benevolent protector.
778	[[/folder]]
779
780	!!Demons, legendary beasts, spirits and miscellaneous creatures
781
782	[[folder:Apep]]
783	!!𓉻𓊪𓊪𓆙 \| Ἄποφις \| Apep [[note]]''ˁɜpp(y)'', thought to have been pronounced ''ˁaʔpāpi'' in Middle Egyptian[[/note]]
784	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/apep_deity.jpg]]
785	'''Apep''' (Also known under his Greek name of '''Apophis''') is the embodiment of chaos and god of darkness, storms, earthquakes, and basically anything harmful. Residing in the underworld where he feasted on wayward souls, he also attacked Ra and his entourage every night as they traveled through said realm, using his hypnotic gaze before trying to swallow them (if he succeed, it was one explanation for a solar eclipse). After the Hyksos invaded Egypt and identified Set with their chief god, many of his characteristics were combined with Set who for a while replaced him as the Egyptian go-to "God Of Evil".
786	----
787	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Apep is hated and feared by every god out there. He is so terrible that even other chaos gods [[EvenEvilHasStandards detest him]], and he is the only deity in the Egyptian pantheon known to have been explicitly prayed ''against'' -- every recovered prayer about him is about wishing for his hindrance and defeat. There was even an entire ''guide'' to opposing him, ''The Books of Overthrowing Apep'', whose prayers described a gradual process of wishing for Apep's defeat and dismemberment.
788	* AdorableAbomination: Most likely unintentional, considering his reputation, but as the image above shows, Ancient Egyptian artwork of Apep makes him look [[CuteIsEvil surprisingly endearing for an evil chaos deity]].
789	* ArchEnemy: Ra, whom he tries to murder every night. Arguably [[EvilVersusOblivion Set]] as well, who has to fight him every night.
790	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: One of his most notable characteristics is just how huge he was supposed to be. Pretty much every depiction that exists even [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Apep_1.jpg has him]] coiled up in some way in order to emphasis this.
791	* BigBad: Of the whole mythos in general. Apep was the chief source of evil and chaos in ancient Egyptian cosmology.
792	* CainAndAbel: With Ra, in some myths. Apep was sometimes said to be Ra's twin brother from the same umbilical cord.
793	* CessationOfExistence: He inflicts this on those souls he devours.
794	* ChaosIsEvil: Explicitly described as a being of chaos, and Apep seeks the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
795	* DarkIsEvil: He was explicitly called the god of darkness, which is a major component of his portfolio.
796	* DestroyerDeity: Apep is a primordial enemy who dislikes the other gods' creating and ordering of the universe and tries to devour Ra and all light & life every night to return the world back to its primordial chaos. Apep is sufficiently bad that Set, the notoriously ill-tempered and nasty god of chaos and storms (and a frequent "bad guy" in Egyptian myths), [[EvenEvilHasStandards despises him]] [[EnemyMine and helps protect Ra against Apep every night]]. Apep is notably the only god in the Egyptian pantheon who was prayed against.
797	* DraconicAbomination: A huge Lovecraftian serpent that embodies death, darkness, and chaos.
798	* DragonsAreDemonic: A gigantic evil serpent who opposes the gods and wishes the absolute annihilation of all light and life in the universe.
799	* TheDreaded: So much so that he was the only deity actively prayed AGAINST, and that there were whole books dedicated to attacking and repelling him.
800	* EatenAlive: Sometimes, during their fights, Apep would succeed in [[SwallowedWhole swallowing Ra whole]], which would result in a solar eclipse. However, Ra would inevitably survive this, and break free from Apep's stomach once the eclipse ends.
801	* EldritchAbomination: A primordial being born from Ra's umbilical cord that represents everything awful about the world. Also an AnimalisticAbomination, since Apep is a being of chaos and destruction in the shape of a massive serpent, and no matter how many times Apep was slain, he always comes back.
802	* EvilCounterpart: To Ma'at, the Egyptian embodiment of Truth and Order.
803	* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Ra and Apep fight every night. Ra wins each time, but thanks to his ResurrectiveImmortality, Apep just comes back the next night to try again. Meanwhile, if Apep were to be victorious just once, [[OmnicidalManiac he would annihilate the entire universe]].
804	* GodEating: Tries to eat Ra every night, and was believed to briefly succeed in eclipses.
805	* GodOfChaos: Embodies chaos and destruction, in direct opposition to Ra and Ma'at.
806	* GodOfEvil: Actually a god who was unquestionably pure evil, and not worshiped at all.
807	* TheGreatSerpent: Possibly the UrExample. He was a massive snake monster that dwelled in the horizons and sought to devour Ra every day and night during his journey through the underworld.
808	* HatedByAll: All the other gods (including Set) opposed him and mortals actively prayed against him.
809	* HateSink: [[UrExample Probably the oldest example of this trope.]] He's a loathsome deity who's defined by his malevolence and hatred for life. To put things in perspective, Apep was never prayed ''to'' by the Egyptians, only prayed ''against''. Priests would even make icons of Apep just to step or spit on them.
810	* HypnoticEyes: Used this to lure the gods in before eating them. Only Set could resist it.
811	* InvincibleVillain: There is a reason why Apophis earned the title of [[SerpentOfImmortality The Serpent of Rebirth]]. No matter how many times Ra destroyed Apophis, the evil snake god [[ResurrectiveImmortality always comes back from The Underworld good as new]], ready to destroy the universe [[SuperPersistentPredator again, and again, and again]]...
812	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[RedBaron A few of the titles]] given by people praying against him include ''Serpent From The West'', ''Evil Lizard,'' ''Lord Of Chaos,'' ''The World Encircler,'' ''Bringer of Darkness,'' ''Devourer of the Sun,'' ''Enemy of Ra,'' and even, simply, "The Enemy." There is evidence to suggest he was also called ''Eater of Souls,'' though this title was not exclusive to him. A debatably subverted example would be his epithet ''Serpent of Rebirth,'' which without context sounds ambivalent if not pleasant.
813	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Apep is sometimes depicted as a crocodile, and he's every bit as sinister as his original serpentine form.
814	* NonHumanUndead: A giant undead snake. Though some descriptions imply that it is an umbilical cord, specifically Ra's, that came to life.
815	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Unlike other deities, Apep was was always depicted as a giant snake (sometimes even with legs) and never as a humanoid.
816	* OmnicidalManiac: He sought to reduce the entire universe to a void by destroying all light and life in existence.
817	* OrderVersusChaos: Firmly on the chaos side, with Ra representing order.
818	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one's a gigantic snake that wants to eat the sun because he hates all life.
819	* ResurrectiveImmortality: Though Ra can slay Apep, this never sticks, and Apep comes back each night to try killing Ra again.
820	* TheScottishTrope: You weren't even supposed to say his name.
821	* SnakesAreSinister: A malevolent being of chaos and darkness in the shape of a snake. [[ObviouslyEvil Can't get any more evil than that]].
822	* SoulEating: Any souls who get lost on their way to the afterlife are also devoured by Apep.
823	* SuperPersistentPredator: Ra has to face him each night, kill him, and then face him again the next night for all eternity.
824	* TheUndead: He lives in the land of the dead and therefore cannot be slain.
825	[[/folder]]
826
827	[[folder:Medjed]]
828	!!𓐥𓂧𓀭 \| Medjed [[note]]mḏd, translated "the smiter"[[/note]]
829	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/medjed_deity.jpg]]
830	'''Medjed''' is an obscure[[note]]As in, we only have a single line mentioning them, and a few depictions[[/note]] Egyptian spirit that is mentioned in the Book of the Dead. Like Kek, it has achieved popularity in recent times, namely on Japanese social media. The single mention of him in text is from Spell 17 of the Book of the Dead:
831	-->"I know the name of that Smiter among them, who belongs to the House of Osiris, who shoots with his eye, yet is unseen."
832	----
833	* AdorableAbomination: If we are to take his visual appearance at face value, then he's a spirit who smites people that looks like a goofy BedsheetGhost.
834	* ArmlessBiped: Its depictions don't show it having arms.
835	* BedsheetGhost: Resembles this due to it being depicted without arms, a mouth, ears, nose, neck and even a proper torso. Whether this is how the Egyptians actually thought he looked like, or just their way of depicting the fact that he is unseen, remains unknown.
836	* BewareTheSillyOnes: It may ''look'' absolutely ridiculous, but it's a harbinger of divine judgment with the ability to shoot laser beams out of its eyes.
837	* EyeBeams: One of the only things we actually know about him is that he "shoots with his eye".
838	* EldritchAbomination: Seems to have been a rather alien deity, always being depicted shrouded in a veil and being the ''only'' being in Egyptian art always depicted [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou facing the viewer]].
839	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Possibly. Spell 17 begins with "I know the name of that Smiter", which implies that Medjed, which is just Egyptian for Smiter, may be a title rather than a name.
840	* TheSpook: Medjed sees all but remains unseen, hence always being depicted covered by a veil.
841	[[/folder]]
842
843	[[folder:Akhekh]]
844	!! Akhekh/Ākhekh/Akekhu
845	[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahkhkh_3.png]]
846	[[caption-width-right:301:The Akhekh as seen on the Metternich Stela]]
847	The '''Akhekh''' is a desert-dwelling winged monster that brought terror wherever it went.
848	----
849	* GruesomeGoat: Well, Greusome Antelope, but you get the point. The Akhekh has the body of an oryx and associated with darkness and chaos, and is either a companion to or even an incarnation of Set. It certainly helped that the Ancient Egyptians actually did associate antelopes with Set and forces of chaos in the same way many associate goats with Satan and evil.
850	* MixAndMatchCritters: Body of an Oryx, wings and beak of an eagle, with a serpent's tail for good measure.
851	* Main/OurGryphonsAreDifferent: One source describes the Akhekh as having a lion's body as opposed to an oryx's, making it this trope. Even the normal form can be considered a kind of hippogriff what with the bird's head and wings on a hooved mammalian body.
852	[[/folder]]
853
854	[[folder:Ammit]]
855	!!𓂝𓅓𓄈𓅓𓏏𓏦𓀐 \| Ammit/Ammut/Ahemait [[note]]translated "devourer of the dead"[[/note]]
856	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ammit_deity.jpg]]
857	'''Ammit''' is a demon that lived near the ScalesOfJustice in Duat (the Egyptian underworld/afterlife) and devours the souls of evil people whose sinful souls were heavier than the feather of Ma'at. Along with Apep, she is one of the few beings that weren't worshipped, though unlike the former Ammit at least got recognized and respected as a sort of neccessary evil.
858	----
859	* CessationOfExistence: Souls eaten by Ammit simply cease to exist. This is considered a ''very'' bad thing by Egyptians, because existence is an important part of their religion.
860	* FemaleMonsterSurprise: While it isn't obvious at first glance, the ancient texts state that Ammit is apparently female - understandable, given the behavior of female lions.
861	* {{Foil}}: To Tawaret. They are both goddesses with features of a hippo and crocodile. Where Tawaret gives life, Ammit takes it away.
862	* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the head of a crocodile, the front limbs and torso of a lion, and the back limbs and rear end of a hippopotamus -- all animals that the Egyptians rightly feared as the most dangerous on Earth.
863	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: A beastly chimera that eats dead souls.
864	* YourSoulIsMine: Capable of eating the souls of the deceased.
865	[[/folder]]
866
867	[[folder:Sphinx]]
868	!!𓊏𓊪𓀾𓋹𓈖𓐍 \| Σφίγξ \| Sphinx [[note]]plural "sphinxes" or "sphinges"[[/note]]
869	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sphinx_deity.jpg]]
870	The '''sphinx''' is a mythological creature famous for having a giant statue of it in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is used as a guardian being. Is the most famous, popular and iconic Egyptian mythological creature alongside [[{{Mummy}} mummies]]. Also appears in Greek mythology, albeit quite different.
871	----
872	* BeastWithAHumanFace: The Androsphinx, which is the "default" species has a human head (mostly male).
873	* MixAndMatchCritters: There are two alternate versions, the Hieracosphinx which has the head of a falcon (resembling a [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent griffin/griffon]]) and the Criosphinx which has a ram head.
874	* RiddlingSphinx: Averted, as this is the Egyptian version.
875	* TimeAbyss: According to new research, apparently it and the pyramids are from the Old Kingdom (circa 2558–2532 BC).
876	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / EgyptianMythology