Posted in The Gods on Jan 14th, 2007
The God of the Underworld - Anubis (in Greek) - was an old god who took care of the cemeteries and, from around the fifth dynasty, was considered to be the son of the sun god Ra.
Later he was connected to the vast Osiris cult and became his son with the goddess Nephtys.
Anubis is depicted as [...]
Posted in The Gods on Jan 14th, 2007
Ra, the Sun God of Heliopolis, was also known to the Egyptians as Re or Annu.
Ancient Egyptians believed the Sun God to be self created and the creator of all other things.
Ra is probably one of the hardest Egyptian gods to understand. Either by design or by confusion through the ages he has come to [...]
The Aton was the sun itself, recognised first in the Middle Kingdom, and later becoming an aspect of the sun god.
In the reign of Amenhotep IV during the 18th DynastyI, Aton was depicted as a disk with rays, each ray terminating in a human hand and bestowing symbols of “life” upon those below.
Aton was declared [...]
Egypt had by tradition a great variety of gods with a total of over 2000 of them, but many of them had similar characteristics and appeared all over the country by different names.
The huge diversity was due to the fact that before the country was united, the Nile Valley was divided into about forty self [...]