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Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (2016)

by Schwolop on 9/11/21, 5:12 AM with 31 comments

• by eointierney on 9/12/21, 2:51 AM

  Thoth has long been my favourite ancient Egyptian anthropomorphism.

  Pick a deity, any deity. Your credulance is worth less than another's coin. Shall we spill some blood in sacrifice?

  Oh look, the water's rising, see you next year with your rudimentary approximation of calcuable area.

  How's Osiris getting on?

• by dr_dshiv on 9/12/21, 6:40 AM

  Ptah, the god of design!

  When the black Nubian pharaohs reunited Egypt in the 8th century BC, they restored his temples in Memphis and claimed to have found an ancient first dynasty scroll that they copied to "the Shabaka Stone".

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaka_Stone

• by GloriousKoji on 9/12/21, 5:35 AM

  I don’t see Medjed on the list.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medjed

• by dukeofdoom on 9/12/21, 6:12 AM

  Imhotep - The vizier of king Djoser (c. 2670 BCE) who designed and built the Step Pyramid. He lived c. 2667-2600 BCE and was a polymath expert in many fields of study. His name means "He Who Comes in Peace" and, after his death, he was deified as a god of wisdom and medicine. He was identified by the Greeks with Aesculapius and was invoked in spells for healing. His medical treatises claimed, against convential belief, that disease was natural in origin and not a punishment from the gods.

• by idoubtit on 9/12/21, 10:24 AM

  If a web site claimed it was "Programming Languages - The Complete List", with a list of a few dozens items, would it be popular? It would describe POP-1 in one sentence, same as Lua, B or Caml. Some influential languages would be missing, while others would appear in the list though they were in used for a limited time in a single lab. And the most important point: would it mean anything to anyone who does not yet know the various paradigms of programming?

  I see little value in such lists. The few paragraphs of general introduction are more interesting, but I don't think it's enough to understand how gods were perceived during the 3 millenniums of Ancient Egypt. For instance, there was an essential concept of "Maat" (order of the world). And some Egyptian gods could age and die.

  If you're interested in the subject, I strongly recommend "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt" by E. Hornung.

• by sumedh on 9/12/21, 1:56 AM

  I know some of these names thanks to Stargate sg1.

• by pronoiac on 9/12/21, 2:08 AM

  Who's the fun god? Who's the sun god? Ra! Ra! Ra!

• by tragomaskhalos on 9/12/21, 9:25 AM

  "Shed - A protective god who guarded against personal harm from wild animals or mortal enemies"

  Was really hoping that this would continue with "... and who therefore gives his name to the garden shed / man cave", but alas there is apparently no such etymology

• by teruakohatu on 9/12/21, 2:59 AM

  Where these gods all concurrent? It would be interesting to see how they fade in and fade out over the 3,000 of ancient Egypt history.

  The civilization in some for or another existed form longer than the time that has elapsed between now and the founding of Rome.

• by janto on 9/13/21, 1:10 AM

  I really like this statue of Sobek, the crocodile diety: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sobek_Oxford.jpg

• by yawaramin on 9/12/21, 4:06 AM

  I often joke (well, mostly to myself) that Horus was actually the First Avenger.

• by chinga1204 on 9/12/21, 3:17 AM

  Was the giganticism in architecture connected to finding big bonny dinosaur remains that were believed to be gods?

• by new_guy on 9/12/21, 3:54 AM

  There's over 2,000 Egyptian Deities, that list has 246 lol