I’m Christina Brinkley of Oklahoma; I have had one true love all my life and that is my love for Ancient Egypt, including Egyptian Art, and Egyptian mythology. I even have a star named after me in the constellation of Draco and is named ChristinaJoBrinkleyAnkhKheperuRe which means (Christina Jo Brinkley Given Life forever Continually.) Location is RA 16h46m48.75s DEC +52D23M47S MAG 10.62 or Star Id is 5965480 –34 The Egyptians believed that we shall become a star after death.
Khonsu is an ancient lunar deity of Ancient Egypt.
Athirat
Athirat of the Sea' or as more fully translated 'She who treads on the sea', the name understood by various translators and commentators to be from the Ugaritic root ʼaṯr 'stride' cognate with the Hebrew root ʼšr of the same meaning, and may have been equated with the Milky Way. The sacred sea (lake) upon which Asherah trod was known as Yam Kinneret and is now called Lake Galilee.
Amonet
Amonet was the female form of the original deity, Amun who was without a gender since it was a concept. Amun/Amonet originally were the aspects of the primordial concept of air, in the Ogdoad cosmogony. Of the name for primordial air meaning, (one who) is hidden, the male aspect is Amun, and the female aspect is Amonet. Amonet, as the female aspect, became increasingly identified with Iusaaset, Atum's shadow. By becoming identified as Iusaaset, Amonet was regarded as the mother of creation and she was seen as owning the tree from which all life emerged and returned, the tree of life, an acacia tree said to reside on the desert's edge.
Nut
Her name means Night. Some of the titles of Nut were Coverer of the Sky, She Who Protects, Mistress of All, and She Who Holds a Thousand Souls. Originally she was the goddess of the daytime sky, but in later times she was known simply as the sky goddess. Nut was said to be covered in stars touching the cardinal points of her body. Her headdress was the hieroglyphic of part of her name, a pot, which may also symbolize the uterus. The ancient Egyptians said that every woman was a nutrit, a little goddess.
Ma'at
Ma'at was the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, order—law, morality, and justice[2] which was deified as a goddess.[3] Ma'at was seen as being charged with regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, [4] after she had set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation.
Hathor
Hathor was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor was an ancient goddess, and was worshipped as a cow-deity from at least 2700 BC,[1] during the second dynasty. Her worship by the Egyptians goes back earlier however, possibly, even by the Scorpion King who ruled during the Protodynastic Period.
Isis
Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus. Isis was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother. However, the hieroglyph of her name originally meant "she of flesh", i.e. mortal, and she may simply have represented deified, historical queens. She also is known as being the goddess of magic and healing.
Nephthys
Nephthys is a goddess of undetermined origin, but contrary to many erroneous claims, her ancient Egyptian name did not, in any way, mean "Lady of the House," as if referring to an ordinary human home. Perhaps most interestingly for our current consideration, Nephthys was not at all restricted to the purely passive and/or formless status so often accorded to her by various commentators. On the contrary, Nephthys is quite often featured as a rather ferocious, dangerous divinity, capable of incinerating the enemies of the Pharaoh with her fiery breath.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet was originally the warrior goddess of Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs.
Bast
Bast is an ancient solar and war goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek), which was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lioness. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer. As protector, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the later chief male deity, Ra, who was a solar deity also, gaining her the titles Lady of Flame and Eye of Ra.
Selket
In art, Selket was shown as a scorpion, or as a woman with a scorpion on her head, and although Selket doesn't appear to have had temples, she had a sizable priesthood. The most dangerous species of scorpion resides in North Africa, and its sting can kill, so Selket was considered a highly important goddess, and was sometimes considered by pharaohs to be their patron. As the protector against poisons, and snake bites, Selket was often said to protect the gods from Apep, the great snake-god of evil, sometimes acting as the guard when Apep was captured.
Nefertem
In art, Nefertum is usually depicted as a beautiful young man having blue water-lily flowers around his head. The ancient Egyptians often carried small statuettes of him as good-luck charms.
Anuket
Being the deification of the Nile herself also lead to the two tributaries of the Nile being considered the arms of Anuket. Ceremonially, when the Nile started its annual flood, the Festival of Anuket began. People threw coins, gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, in thanks for the life-giving water and returning benefits derived from the wealth provided by her fertility to the goddess. The taboo held in several parts of Egypt, against eating certain fish which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time, suggesting that a fish species of the Nile was a totem for Anuket and that they were consumed as part of the ritual of her major religious festival.
Satis
One of her titles was She Who Runs Like an Arrow, which is thought to refer to the river current, and her symbols became the arrow and the running river. Satis was pictured as a woman wearing the conical crown of Upper Egypt with gazelle or antelope horns, or as an antelope, a fast moving creature living near the banks of the river in the southern portion of Ancient Egypt.
Khnum
Khnum one of the earliest Egyptian deities, originally the god of the source of the Nile River.
Nekhbet
Nekhbet was depicted as the Egyptian white vulture protecting the cities of Egypt.
Anubis Giving Life Forever
Anubis is depicted in funerary contexts where he is shown attending to the mummies of the deceased or sitting atop a tomb protecting it.
Maahes
Maahes was an ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war.
Amun Rising
Amun became depicted in human form wearing on his head a plain deep circlet from which rise two straight parallel plumes, possibly symbolic of the tail feathers of a bird, a reference to his earlier status as a wind god.
Neith
Neith was a goddess of war and of hunting and had as her symbol, two crossed arrows over a shield. Was a goddess of weaving and the domestic arts she was a protector of women and a guardian of marriage, so royal woman often named themselves after Neith, in her honour.
Anat
Anat is a violent war-goddess, a virgin in Ugarit (btlt 'nt) though the sister and lover of the great Ba‘al known as Hadad elsewhere.
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