History Characters / EgyptianMythology

** 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.
** 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.
** FoodGod: Hathor and Renenuet, with the latter being the general harvest and Hathor representing plenty.
** LoveGoddess: Hathor was the primary love goddess, but Babi and Sobek were gods of male fertility, and Tawaret of female fertility.
** Hunter God: Neith, Pakhet, and Wepwawet.
** 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.
** WarGod: Neith, Sekhmet, Montu, Pakhet, Mafdet (more specifically a goddess of execution), Wepwawet, and Anhur.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** TopGod: Ra, usually. Sometimes Neith, Amun, or Horus.

'''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, ingluding English.[[/note]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: Pre-demonization, he was still a destructive deity of desert and storms.

** LordOfTheOcean: No ocean god, but plenty of deities associated with water and rivers, thanks to the Nile. This category includes Neith, Nepthys, Khnum (more specifically, he was river mud), Tefnut (rain and moisture), and Sobek.

* ArcherArchetype: Associated with the bow and arrow as a hunting and war goddess.

** 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.

** 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 favoured the worship of Seth.

* BrotherSisterIncest: With Nephthys. In some versions he also wanted to have this with Isis, not that she was interested.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Several versions of the Osiris myth posit that he killed Osiris in retaliation for having an affair with Nephthys, which comes off as rich when paired with the myth where Set himself lusted after Osiris's own wife Isis.

** WarGod: Neith, Sekhmet, Montu, Pakhet, Mafdet (more specifically a goddess of execution), and Anhur.