Chapter 40: The Pantheon III
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Thoth Thot, god of calculation, learning, wisdom, and the moon, in the form of a red heron or a baboon, with a pen and a scroll, was also the inventor of writing. The lord god of the land, the inventor of writing, the clerk of the gods, is depicted in the Book of the Dead as a standing judge. It appears as a man wearing a full moon disc and a crescent crested ibis, or a baboon.
The god Abys, the god of Abys, is the sacred beast of the main god of Memphis, Ptah, a bull that is kept in the temple, and is also the incarnation of the cow form of the god Ptah. Appears as a bull with the sun on its head and the holy snake Ulaeus. Saqqara has unearthed large cow-shaped mummified cemeteries, among which the mummification of the holy serpent Uraeus has been found.
The goddess Viajet, originally the goddess of the Sixth Dynasty of Lower Egypt, was later revered as the patron saint of the royal power of Lower Egypt, and appeared in pairs with the goddess Naikbet of Upper Egypt. Viajet appears in the form of the holy serpent Ulaeus wearing the crown (red crown) of Lower Egypt.
The goddess Naikbet, originally revered in the El Kab region of Upper Egypt, later became the patron saint of royal power in Upper Egypt, and usually appeared in pairs with the goddess Viajet in Lower Egypt. Appears as a dove wearing a white Egyptian crown.
The god Serapis was a god worshiped by Egypt and Greece during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the patron god of agriculture and the afterlife. The god Cyrapis is a mummified coffin containing the sacred beast Abys, appearing as a man with long hair.
The goddess Tavorat has been the protector of family reproduction, pregnant women and mothers since the Old Kingdom, and has been widely revered. The goddess Tavorit appears as a mysterious monster with a hippopotamus head in a standing birthing position, a crocodile tail, and a lion's hind legs in the form of a hand holding a figurative Ω.
Hapy, the god of the Nile, has been revered as the god of the Nile since ancient times, and the flooding of the Nile is interpreted as the presence of the god Hapy, who is also a symbol of the fertility of the Nile. It appears as a bearded and fat man, or a man with a papyrus and a lotus flower on his head at the unification ceremony of upper and lower Egypt.
The beth god Bes is a guardian god who can drive away poisonous snakes, poisonous scorpions, and disgusting bad luck for people, and protect the safety of pregnant women and babies, and is a god introduced from Sudan during the Middle Kingdom. Appears as a dwarf with an ugly face wearing a crown. The strange appearance of his tongue sticking out is believed to scare away demons.
The local worship of the god Ra was roughly formed during the Second Dynasty of Egypt, and its status as a sun god was established.
In the Fourth Dynasty, the pharaoh was seen as the embodiment of the god Ra on earth, known as the "son of Ra".
By the Fifth Dynasty, the worship of the god Ra had risen dramatically, and the pharaoh was considered the son of the god Ra, thus giving the supreme authority of the god of Ra, becoming the most important god in ancient Egyptian mythology, and was seen as the sun during the day. He became the god of all Egypt, and the pharaoh paid his respects by building a temple of the sun with pyramids and obelisks.
The rulers of the Fifth Dynasty told the believers that they were the sons of the god Ra and the wife of the high priest of Heliopolis. The pharaohs spent a lot of money on the Temple of the Sun. From the first pyramid inscriptions, the god Ra has played an increasingly important role in the pharaoh's journey to the underworld. For more than a decade thereafter, Ra remained the supreme god of Egypt.
During the Middle Kingdom, the god Ra became more and more subordinate to the gods and gradually merged with the other major gods, especially Amun, Horus, and Osiris. The Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom era Ra god beliefs have absolute authority.
The god Mentu, who was the main god of Thebes before the rise of the god Amun, appears with Horus in the form of a falcon-headed man wearing a sun disc decorated with a long feather and the holy serpent Uraeus, and is the god of war. It was the god of war revered in the Armant region of Upper Egypt, and was also revered in Thebes, where the temple of Mentu was built in Karnak.
Amun Amon, the chief god of Thebes, became the chief god of the nation because of the rise of Thebes. The name means "n-one", and the sacred beasts are the goose and the ram. The god Amun, along with one of Thebes' very early patron gods, "Ama Unnet", represents the source of creation. It is said that he created by breathing, and was therefore believed to be the god of wind rather than the sun.
Mout, goddess of war, wife of the god Amun, mother of the god Khonsu. The name Mout means mother in Egyptian and is the mother of the moon god Horns. is a vulture goddess who is widely revered in Thebes. The goddess Mut is the wife of the god Amun, the mother of the god Horns, and the three gods make up the three pillars of Thebes. Goddess Mutt was revered in the same way as Goddess Hathor and Goddess Isis and was considered the symbolic mother of the pharaoh. Appears as a woman with a vulture crown on her head.
Horns/Hohensu, one of the three pillars of Thebes, the moon god, is also the god of healing, his father is the god Amun, and the mother is the god Mut, the three gods stand together in one place, and there is a temple outside Karnak. Probably the most famous story about it is that it made a bet with Thoth and bet on his light, and that Thoth won the game, so it could not show all its light, except for the full moon (which may be the legend of the moon). There are royal braids, a full moon disc and a new moon on the head. Appears as a juvenile mummy or a falcon-headed man.
The god Sokal, the patron saint of the cemetery in Memphis, was originally the patron saint of craftsmen and the god of earth and abundance. Appears in the form of a falcon or a mummified falcon. Later, he was revered in the same way as the gods Osiris and Ptah, and became one with the Three Pillars.