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As for them, Geb and Nut will have four children: Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys.

Shu and Tefnut will have two children: Geb (the incarnation of the earth) and Nut (the starry sky). By harmoniously mixing the ocean and the Void, he gives birth to air (in the form of the god Shu) and heat (in the form of the goddess Tefnut). Thus, Ra immediately created the conditions that would allow life to come into the Universe. Indeed, Ra had sensed the great distress of Atum, who had not been able to create the Universe on his own. On this tiny island, a falcon-headed god appeared on his own, carrying the Sun on his head. However, he tried all the same and used all the energy he possessed to bring a tiny island out of the ocean. Atum was too weak to single-handedly shape the Universe. Originally, there were only two elements in the entire Universe: an infinite ocean covering the lower half of the Universe and the "Void" covering the other half of the Universe.Īfter an infinite number of contacts between the original ocean and the original Void, an entity representing the desire for creation emerged: Atum. Ra is the god of gods of ancient Egypt: according to Egyptian mythology, he is the creator of the Universe and all the divine or mortal life forms that inhabit it. 1) Ra I) The creation of all the other gods by Ra Let's begin without further ado by discovering the first of these gods and the creator of the Egyptian world: Ra, the falcon Sun god.

The other important gods: Khepri, Amun, Ptah, Taweret, and Sobek.

The gods Anubis, Thoth, and Ammit involved in the judgment of the Egyptian dead.

The gods Set, Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Horus involved in the tragedy called "myth of Osiris".

The gods Ra, Apep, Aten, and Sekhmet involved in the creation of the Universe.

Egyptian gods include many gods with animal heads (Horus, Set, Anubis, Thoth, Bastet, Sekhmet, Ra) and others with human heads (Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Amun). The Egyptian pantheon includes all the gods created by the falcon-headed Sun god Ra. You've come to the right place: specialists and enthusiasts of Egypt, we have prepared an article gathering the myths and attributes of each of the gods and goddesses of the Egyptian pantheon. After Islam arrived, the ancient oracle was converted into a mosque.Want to know more about the main animal-headed gods of ancient Egypt? Understand the stories and myths behind Ra, Osiris, Horus, and Anubis? A mud-brick building may have been a Roman fort or a church, and we know of a sixth-century Christian leader named Ammoneki. Many tombs with Roman architectural elements have been found, suggesting substantial wealth in the first and second centuries CE.

Still, an inscription was found that dates to the reign of Trajan (98-117 CE), and of course there were people living at Siwa. In the Roman age, the oracle was not really forgotten, but there were not many visitors. Later visitors included the Athenian commander Cimon, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, and the Carthaginian leader Hannibal. His cult spread to the Greek world, and was especially propagated by the poet Pindar (522-445 BCE), who was the first Greek to dedicate an ode to the god and one of the first Greeks to erect a statue to the god. Of course, Ammon is a bad rendering of Amun, but the name was nonetheless very fitting: ammos was the Greek word for "sand" - in other words, the Greeks called the god Sandy Zeus. The first Greeks to visit the shrine were people from Cyrenaica, who knew the site through caravan trade. Besides, by now, the cult had began to spread outside Egypt. It is possible that Herodotus is right after all, Croesus was allied to Amasis.

In the fifth century, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus stated in his Histories that the Lydian king Croesus (560-546 BCE) had offered sacrifices to the god Ammon. Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Greek Ammon