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* PostMortemPossessions: It was often believed that the dead could take whatever wealth they had into the afterlife, which was often entombed with them.
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** Osiris had greenish-blue skin, though that might have something to do with the fact that he's a corpse.
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** Osiris had has greenish-blue skin, though that might have something which is linked to do with his original nature and role as the fact that he's a corpse.god of the cycle of vegetation. His green skin evokes both the fertile silt left after the Nile annual floodings, and the vigorous growth of plants, and nature overall, after being (re)boosted by it. This cyclic aspect of Osiris made it all the easier to cast him as the god of Afterlife/Rebirth. Some cities dedicated to Osiris, like Busiris in the Delta, focused chiefly on this plant growth/ fertility aspect, while Abydos, the biggest sanctuary of Osiris was all about afterlife.
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* {{Blessing}}: Ancient Egyptians performed rituals to a deity using offerings of drink, clothing, food, and ointment in a temple by priests who acted as proxies for the Pharaoh; the offerers would consume beverages and food during the offerings they were used to gain the gods' favor.
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* IKnowYourTrueNames: True names were the foundation of the Ancient Egyptian magic sytem.
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* IKnowYourTrueNames: IKnowYourTrueName: True names were the foundation of the Ancient Egyptian magic sytem.
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* IKnowYourTrueNames: True names were the foundation of the Ancient Egyptian magic sytem.
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** Some stories portrayed Hathor as a healer, such as one where she restored Horus's eyes with gazelle's milk after Set gauged them out.
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** Some stories portrayed Hathor as a healer, such as one where she restored Horus's eyes with gazelle's milk after Set gauged gouged them out.
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** Osiris himself is an earlier example, as his worship only really took off during the Fourth Dynasty. Before this, tellingly, Set was viewed much more favorably.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Imhotep was said to have risen to become a God after his death, and was worshiped for thousands of years afterwards as a God of mathematics and architecture.
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** Amheh, the “Devourer of Millions”, a lesser-known deity from the Book of the Dead who has the head of a dog and presides over the Lake of Fire in Duat (a pre-Christian example of a Lake of Fire at that), and is said to have a special love for the taste of human flesh.
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* MotherGoddess: In some versions of the mythology Neith fills this role as the mother of Ra. Many other Goddesses had motherhood as one of their domains, such as Mut (whose name literally means “mother”), Isis, Renenutet, Nut, among others.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lettuce for both Set and Min. It was considered an aphrodisiac. This was used against Set in his battle with Horus; the lettuce that ancient Egyptians ate secreted a sticky white sap that reminded one of ejaculate, so Horus ticked Set by [[IAteWhat applying his own seed to Set’s salad]]. Min, a fertility God, was associated with lettuce because of what its sap looked like.
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** Set and Osiris are brothers, and the Osiris myth focuses on how the treacherous Set killed [[TheGoodKing Osiris]], usurped his throne, and ruled until Osiris's son with his sister-wife Isis, Horus, grew up to challenge him. [[UrExample One of the few examples older than]] the TropeNamer, while also being an UnbuiltTrope in that Osiris was originally an AssholeVictim, having usurped Ra and drunkenly raped Set's wife Nephthys.
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** Set and Osiris are brothers, and the Osiris myth focuses on how the treacherous Set killed [[TheGoodKing Osiris]], usurped his throne, and ruled until Osiris's son with his sister-wife Isis, Horus, grew up to challenge him. [[UrExample One of the few examples older than]] the TropeNamer, while also being an UnbuiltTrope in that Osiris was originally an AssholeVictim, having usurped Ra and drunkenly raped Set's wife Nephthys.TropeNamer.
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** Set and Osiris are brothers, and the Osiris myth focuses on how the treacherous Set killed [[TheGoodKing Osiris]], usurped his throne, and ruled until Osiris's son with his sister-wife Isis, Horus, grew up to challenge him. [[UrExample One of the few examples older than]] the TropeNamer.
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** Set and Osiris are brothers, and the Osiris myth focuses on how the treacherous Set killed [[TheGoodKing Osiris]], usurped his throne, and ruled until Osiris's son with his sister-wife Isis, Horus, grew up to challenge him. [[UrExample One of the few examples older than]] the TropeNamer.TropeNamer, while also being an UnbuiltTrope in that Osiris was originally an AssholeVictim, having usurped Ra and drunkenly raped Set's wife Nephthys.
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** Min is pitch black, Ptah is also green,[[note]]maybe because he's one of the primordial creators[[/note]] and other gods are blue or yellow, or just various shades of flesh. This might have been simple color coding for the reader's convenience.
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** Min is pitch black, black [[note]] which to the ancient Egyptians symbolized fertility as it was the color of silt left by the Nile flood[[/note]], Ptah is also green,[[note]]maybe because he's one of the primordial creators[[/note]] and other gods are blue or yellow, or just various shades of flesh. This might have been simple color coding for the reader's convenience.
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** Amun started as just another member of the primordial Ogdoad, and he and his female counterpart, Amunet, were interchangeable with the duo of Qerh and Qerhet. Over the centuries, he became more prominent as the patreon deity of Thebes and became a TopGod during Thebes' time as the capital in the New Kingdom period.
** Aten originated as merely an aspect of Ra, being Ra's sun disc form, that was worshiped during Amenhotep III's reign. Amenhotep's son, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, elevated Aten to main god status and created Atenism to enforce worship of only Aten.
** Aten originated as merely an aspect of Ra, being Ra's sun disc form, that was worshiped during Amenhotep III's reign. Amenhotep's son, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, elevated Aten to main god status and created Atenism to enforce worship of only Aten.
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** Amun started as was originally just another member of the primordial Ogdoad, and he and his female counterpart, Amunet, were interchangeable with the duo of Qerh and Qerhet. Over the centuries, he became more prominent as the patreon deity of Thebes and became a TopGod during Thebes' time as the capital in the New Kingdom period.
** Atenoriginated started as merely an aspect of Ra, being Ra's sun disc form, that was worshiped during Amenhotep III's reign. Amenhotep's son, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, elevated Aten to main god status and created Atenism to enforce worship of only Aten.
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* JekyllAndHyde: Sweet fertility goddess Hathor and her alter ego Sekhmet the AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac.
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* JekyllAndHyde: Sweet fertility goddess Hathor and her alter ego alter-ego, Sekhmet the AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac.OmnicidalManiac.
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* {{Necromantic}}: Isis as she tries to resurrect Osiris.
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* {{Necromantic}}: The first part of the Osiris myth focuses on Isis's efforts to bring her husband Osiris back to life after his body was dismembered by his brother Set and a fish ate his penis. She succeeds in conceiving their son Horus with him (after making a prosthetic penis out of gold for him) and reviving him for only a brief amount of time before he returns to the underworld to become its king. Isis as she tries to resurrect Osiris.is by no means a villain, though.
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** Set, god of storms and violence, has the head of an unidentifiable (and possibly imaginary) creature usually just called a 'Set animal'.
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** Set, god of storms and violence, has the head of an unidentifiable (and possibly imaginary) creature usually just called a 'Set animal'."Set animal".
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Aten, the disc-shaped sun god, put forth by UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}.
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* SinisterSentientSun: Sekhmet is a sun goddess who almost commits genocide on mankind and can only be stopped by making her drunk on beer. There's also a demon that's basically just [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201129160707/http://www.demonthings.com/walking-on-sunshine/ a sun with a knife]].
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* BreakoutCharacter: Isis is the most extreme example of this in Egyptian mythology. 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 and she even spread into Greek worship.
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** Isis is the most extreme example of this in Egyptian mythology. 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 and she even spread into Greekworship.worship.
** Amun started as just another member of the primordial Ogdoad, and he and his female counterpart, Amunet, were interchangeable with the duo of Qerh and Qerhet. Over the centuries, he became more prominent as the patreon deity of Thebes and became a TopGod during Thebes' time as the capital in the New Kingdom period.
** Aten originated as merely an aspect of Ra, being Ra's sun disc form, that was worshiped during Amenhotep III's reign. Amenhotep's son, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, elevated Aten to main god status and created Atenism to enforce worship of only Aten.
Aten, the disc-shaped sun god, put forth by UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}.
** Isis is the most extreme example of this in Egyptian mythology. 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 and she even spread into Greek
** Amun started as just another member of the primordial Ogdoad, and he and his female counterpart, Amunet, were interchangeable with the duo of Qerh and Qerhet. Over the centuries, he became more prominent as the patreon deity of Thebes and became a TopGod during Thebes' time as the capital in the New Kingdom period.
** Aten originated as merely an aspect of Ra, being Ra's sun disc form, that was worshiped during Amenhotep III's reign. Amenhotep's son, UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, elevated Aten to main god status and created Atenism to enforce worship of only Aten.
Aten, the disc-shaped sun god, put forth by UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}.
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* CanonForeigner: Aten, the disc-shaped sun god, put forth by UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Hathor, at times.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Hathor, at times.Hathor was associated with beer and festivities, and her worshipers celebrated her festival by getting very drunk.
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** The goddess Isis was considered a great healer - she cured Osiris.
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** The goddess Isis was considered a great healer - she healer. She healed Osiris's body enough to revive him before he passed on to become king of the underworld, and cured Osiris.a boy of his stings from scorpion venom.
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** Some stories portrayed Hathor as a healer, such as one where she restored Horus's eyes with gazelle's milk after Set gauged them out.
