Epyptian mythology

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Across
  1. 2. This deities original association seems to have been with craftsmen and builders.
  2. 7. Concerned with the care of the dead. He was usually represented as a jackal
  3. 8. One of Egypt’s most important deities, was god of the underworld. He also symbolized death, resurrection, and the cycle of Nile floods that Egypt relied on for agricultural fertility
  4. 9. Embodied motherhood and fertility
  5. 10. The god of chaos, violence, deserts, and storms
Down
  1. 1. Associated with the sun, this god was usually represented with a human body and the head of a hawk.
  2. 3. Depicted as a falcon or as a man with a falcon’s head, a sky god associated with war and hunting.
  3. 4. Ancient Egyptian goddess worshiped in the form of a cat. The daughter of the the sun god, this deity was believed to have a ferocious nature
  4. 5. The god of writing and wisdom, could be depicted in the form of a baboon or a sacred ibis or as a man with the head of an ibis.
  5. 6. As the wife of the god of the underworld, she was also one of the main deities concerned with rites for the dead.
  6. 7. god of the air whose name probably means the “Hidden One.” He was usually represented as a man wearing a crown with two vertical plumes.