Zooming In On The Ancient Egyptian Gods

The Ancient Egyptians had many gods - both male and female. Here are just a few of them:
Ra the God of the Sun. He was the most important God and was the lord of all the gods. He was usually shown in human form with a falcon head, crowned with the sun disc encircled by a sacred cobra. Ra sailed across the heavens in a boat called the 'Barque of Millions of Years'. At the end of each day Ra was thought to die and sailed on his night voyage through the Underworld, leaving the Moon to light the world above.

• Amun was the King of the Gods. He was combined with the sun god Ra and became even more powerful.
• Amun was then called Amun-Ra.
• Anubis was the God of Mummification (embalming and the dead). His role was as the "guardian to necropolis". Priests often wore a mask of Anubis during mummification ceremonies.
• Bast (Bastet) was the    Goddess of Protection and of household entertainment. He is thought to be the daughter of the sun god Ra
• Geb was the Earth God. The ancient Egyptians believed that earthquakes were Geb's laughter.
• Hathor was the Goddess of love and joy and also of music and dance .
• Sekmet was the Goddess of war and battle. She is one of the oldest deities and one of the most powerful.
• Horus was the God of the sky. The Egyptians believed that the pharaoh was the 'living Horus'.
• Heket was the Goddess of childbirth. She was represented in the form of a frog. To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile.
• Tefnut was the Goddess of the rain. She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut.
• Thoth was the God of wisdom (wrting and knowledge). He was one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt alternately said to be self-created or born of the seed of Horus from the forehead of Set.
• Sobek was the God of the Nile and swift action. As the “Lord of the Waters” he was thought to have risen from the primeval waters of Nun to create the world and made the Nile from his sweat.