BOOK OF THE DEAD/14
Nineteen of the gods of Localities from Chapter 18.
PTOLEMY & CLEOPATRA WALL
Ptolemy and Cleopatra make offerings to divinities.
ANUBIS/OSIRIS/BROWN BG
Anubis, god of the dead, with the head of a jackel.
BOOK OF THE DEAD/34
Scene of the sepulchral chamber : the mummy guarded by Anubis, Isis kneels at the foot and Nephthys at the head - four children of Horus at each corner
BOOK OF THE DEAD PLATE 3
The weighing of Ani's conscience by Anubis : Thoth notes the result - Anemit waits to devour him if guilty (which he is not)
RELIGION/EGYPT/GEB
The supreme Earth-God, whose union with his sister NUT produced the other gods
RELIGION/EGYPT/TEFNUT
With the head of a lioness, she is the sister-consort of air-god SHU, and mother of GEB and NUT : she personifies moisture
RELIGION/EGYPT/SHU
The god of sunlight and air, he is often depicted separating GEB, the Earth-God, from his sister NUT, the Sky- God
RELIGION/EGYPT/SETH - 2
Seth, though often violent, is not necessarily malevolent : here he is depicted with Horus, pouring life over the pharaoh Seti I (circa 1310 BC)
RELIGION/EGYPT/SERKET
The scorpion-headed funerary goddess, association with the embalming of mummies
RELIGION/EGYPT/SOBEK
The crocodile-headed god who symbolises the might of the pharaohs : the strength and swiftness of the crocodile are appropriate to the ruler of the country
RELIGION/EGYPT/SATIS
She guards the southern frontier of Egypt, and Lower Nubia, and is associated with the Nile flooding
RELIGION/EGYPT/RENENUTET
Cobra-headed goddess, guardian of the Pharaoh and an embodiment of divine motherhood (also known as RENNUT)
RELIGION/EGYPT/PTAH
PTAH-SEKER-AUSAR, the three- in-one Memphis god of creation and resurrection
RELIGION/EGYPT/NUT
A sky-goddess, mother of the gods, after copulating with her brother the earth-god Geb
RELIGION/EGYPT/KHONSU
Khonsu is worshipped under many names : here he is depicted as NEFER-HETEP, holding an ankh
RELIGION/EGYPT/NEPHTHYS
A funerary deity, she mourns the Pharaoh when he dies, and escorts him into the Underworld.
RELIGION/EGYPT/MUT
The supreme mother-god of Thebes, and consequently the symbolic mother the Pharaoh
RELIGION/EGYPT/MESKHENET
The goddess who presides at childbirth
RELIGION/EGYPT/MONTU
The falcon-headed war-god of Thebes, who embodies the victorious belligerence of the Pharaoh