Across
- 2. local god of Thebes who became head of the Egyptian pantheon after the major center of government moved south / massive temple complex of Karnak was the principal religious center of this god / always portrayed as a man
- 6. goddess of war, destruction, and pestilence / portrayed with the head of a lion on a woman's body / also associated with cats, who were valued for their role as protectors and for their association with this goddess
- 8. took several forms - all related to a cow / identified with beauty and music with many temples built in her honor
- 10. another word for flooding - "the annual ________ of the Nile"
- 11. resurrected her slain brother and husband Osiris / was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to her son Horus
- 12. honored as the god of the necropolis (cemetery) and embalming / in charge of preparing bodies for burial / had the head of a doglike animal called a jackal
- 16. southern portion of Egypt / consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser
- 17. northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea / began to advance as a civilization after 3600 BC
Down
- 1. all the gods of a people or religion collectively
- 3. patron deity of Upper Egypt / jealous brother of Osiris who cut up his body and scattered the parts throughout Egypt / a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners
- 4. a deity who at one time may have been a local ruler in the Nile River's delta / originally associated with the city of Busiris in the Delta and is an example of a regional god who gained countrywide acceptance / lord of the underworld / represented as a mummified king
- 5. scribe of the gods who was believed to have invented writing / possessed wonderful magic and was also associated with the moon and time
- 7. ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity
- 9. patron deity of Lower Egypt / falcon-headed son of Isis and Osiris / served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky / had many battles with Set, not only to avenge his father but to choose the rightful ruler of Egypt
- 13. wife of Amun / portrayed as a woman wearing a vulture headdress, but can also have a lion's head or be represented as a vulture
- 14. one of the most popular amulets in Ancient Egypt that represents the healed eye of Horus that was restored by Thoth / depicts a combination of a human and a falcon eye / its ancient Egyptian name means "the one that is sound" / sometimes represented as a baboon or as a man with a baboon's head
- 15. a god or goddess