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Atum – ‘The All’ The Egyptians believe that Atum was the first God on earth and is the

creator of all other Gods.

Tefnut – Woman with the head of a lioness, the Goddess of Moisture.

Shu – Man wearing a headdress with feathers, the god of the air.

Geb – Man lying down below the sky Goddess Nut, Geb is the God of the Earth.

Nut – Woman whose body arches across the sky, Nut is the sky Goddess, whose body

created a canopy over the earth.

Isis – Woman in the headdress with the shape of a throne, Isis is a protective goddess,

she uses powerful magic spells to help people in need.

Osiris – A mummified man wearing a headdress with feathers, Osiris was the God of the

dead and the ruler of the underworld.

Nephthys – wears a headdress with her name in hieroglyphs, a protective goddess of

the dead, often shown on coffins.

Seth – The God of chaos, Seth represented everything that threatened harmony in

Egypt.

He also murdered his brother Osiris.

Horus – Man with the head of a hawk, God of the sky, most well known as the

protector of the ruler of Egypt.

Horus lost an eye whilst in battle with Seth, this eye became a symbol of theprotection of the ancient Egyptians.

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Anubis – Head of a Jackal, Anubis is the God of embalming and the dead, Anubishelped embalm Osiris after he was killed; this is why Anubis is the God who

watches over the process of mummifying people when they die.

The following Gods and Goddesses are not part of Safiyas family history but they are important to

the ancient Egyptians.

Bastet – Woman with the head of a cat, she is a protective goddess and sometimes

appeared with the head of a lioness to protect the king in battle.

Amun – One of the most powerful gods in ancient Egypt, at the height of Egyptiancivilisation he was named the king of the gods, when Amun was combined with thesun god Ra he was even more powerful and he was named Amun-Ra.

Ra – is the sun god, he is the most important god of the ancient Egyptians.

It was believed that he travelled through the underworld at night.