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- 2. This deities original association seems to have been with craftsmen and builders.
- 7. Concerned with the care of the dead. He was usually represented as a jackal
- 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
- 9. Embodied motherhood and fertility
- 10. The god of chaos, violence, deserts, and storms
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- 1. Associated with the sun, this god was usually represented with a human body and the head of a hawk.
- 3. Depicted as a falcon or as a man with a falcon’s head, a sky god associated with war and hunting.
- 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
- 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.
- 6. As the wife of the god of the underworld, she was also one of the main deities concerned with rites for the dead.
- 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.
