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Ammon` ancient Egyptian deity, originally a local Theban god of reproductive forces, represented as a ram. Amon, his wife, Mut (Egyptian, "the mother"), and his son, the moon god Khon

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Amon` ancient Egyptian deity, originally a local Theban god of reproductive forces, represented as a ram. Amon, his wife, Mut (Egyptian, "the mother"), and his son, the moon god Khon

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Amun` The Egyptian god

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Anubis` god of the dead

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Apis` sacred bull of the ancient Egyptians

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Apopis` Among demons, the most important figure was Apopis, shown as a colossal snake, who was the enemy of the sun god in his daily cycle through the cosmos. Apopis existed outside the ordered realm; he had to be defeated daily, but, since he did not belong to the sphere of existence, he could not be destroyed.

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Aten` also spelled Aten, also called YATI, in ancient Egyptian religion, a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human hands, whose worship briefly was the state religion.

(like Amun) were gods worshipped in the regions where the pharaohs power reached.

Egypt was a vast area over 1000 miles x 1000 miles. Amun was a local god. Those who lived in different areas of Egypt worshipped different gods.

Imagine if you will, the period when the colonies in America began. The government was based in the east and the people in their areas were under their thumbs, but many of the settlers that lived in the western areas did not even know who the presidents were.

When Aknenation and Nefertiti moved to the north, Karnak was not abandoned. Other Egyptians continued to live there, and others further to the south past Aswan.. others hundreds of miles to the North as far as Syria.

Amun was one of the gods of middle Egypt. He was in the form of a man and believed to have dwelled in the temple.

Aten was the worship of the sun it's self and the images on the wall were like the images of Christ on Christian's walls.

I do not know of any images or text mentioning Amun/Aten in Memphis.

Amun/Aten were not around when the pyramids were built, but gods connected to the sun under different identities existed from the beginning.

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Aton` Egyptian god of the sun, regarded during the reign of Akhenaton. also spelled Aten, also called YATI, in ancient Egyptian religion, a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human hands, whose worship briefly was the state religion.

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Atum` in Egyptian mythology, god of the sun and also a creator god. Atum was considered one of four principal creator deities, along with Amon, Khnum, and Ptah. Atum, whose cult center was in the ancient city of Heliopolis,

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Bast`, protector of the pharaoh, cat-bodied or cat-headed. Also known as Bastet

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Bastet`, protector of the pharaoh, cat-bodied or cat-headed. Also known as Bast

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Bes` in Egyptian mythology, the god of music and dance. Bes is usually shown as a grotesque dwarf.

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Elysian` also known as the Elysian Fields, in Greek mythology, a pre-Hellenic paradise, a land of perfect peace and happiness

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Geb` According to the Egyptian account of creation, only the ocean existed at first. Then Ra, the Sun, came out of an egg (a flower, in some versions) that appeared on the surface of the water. Ra brought forth four children, the gods Shu and Geb and the goddesses Tefnut and Nut. Shu and Tefnut became the atmosphere.

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Hapy` - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility

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Harakhty`

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Hathor` in Egyptian mythology, goddess of the sky and queen of heaven. Daughter of the sun god Ra and wife of the sky god Horus, she was the goddess of fertility and patron of women and marriage. She was also the goddess of love and beauty; for this reason, she was identified often with the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

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Heget` - goddess of Childbirth

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Heka`

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Heliopolis` (ancient Egypt) (Greek, "city of the sun"), city of ancient Egypt, the center of sun worship

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Heliopolitan` ??? the world in the Heliopolitan cosmogony

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Horus` , in Egyptian mythology, god of the sky and of light and goodness. One of the major Egyptian deities, Horus was the son of Isis, the nature goddess, and Osiris, the god of the underworld. After Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, the god of darkness and evil, Horus avenged his father's death by killing his uncle.

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Idfu` a place

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Imhotep` - god of wisdom, medicine and magic

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Isis` in Egyptian mythology, goddess of fertility and motherhood. According to the Egyptian belief, she was the daughter of the god Keb ("Earth") and the goddess Nut ("Sky"), the sister-wife of Osiris, judge of the dead, and mother of Horus, god of day

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Kep` Earth god

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Khepri` Some gods were very strongly linked to particular animals, as Khepri with the scarab beetle

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Khnum` in Egyptian mythology, one of the four principal creator gods, the others being Amon-Ra, Atum, and Ptah. Khnum was envisaged as a potter who molded deities, humans, and animals from clay on his potting wheel, and then breathed life into them. He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a ram, his sacred animal and a symbol of male creative power

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Maat` - personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order

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Maahes` - god of war

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Memphite` Khufu was the second king of the 4th Dynasty, also known as the Memphite dynasty.

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Mendes` Some animal cults were only partly integrated with specific gods, notably the Ram of Mendes

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Menhit` - goddess of war

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Meretseger` - goddess of the valley of the kings

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Min` fertility god

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Mnevis` Some animal cults were only partly integrated with specific gods, notably the Ram of Mendes in the Delta and the Apis and Mnevis bulls

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Mont` - god of war

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Mut` - Amon or Ammon (Egyptian, "hidden"), ancient Egyptian deity, originally a local Theban god of reproductive forces, represented as a ram. Amon, his wife, Mut (Egyptian, "the mother"),

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Naunet` - the primal waters

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Neith` in Egyptian mythology, the great mother goddess, also associated with hunting and warfare. Neith was a formidable figure whose emblem was a shield displaying two crossed arrows. The center of her cult was at Sais

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Nephthys` sister of Isis, godess of death

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Nut` Child of the sun god Ra, goddess of heaven and the sky

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Osiris` Originally the local god of Abydos and Busiris, Osiris, who represented the male productive force in nature, became identified with the setting sun. Thus he was regarded as the ruler of the realm of the dead in the mysterious region below the western horizon. Osiris was the brother and husband of Isis, goddess of the earth and moon. god of the underworld, fertility and agriculture

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Ptah` one of the greatest of gods. Ancient inscriptions describe him as "creator of the earth, father of the gods and all the being of this earth, father of beginnings." He was regarded as the patron of metalworkers and artisans and as a mighty healer. He is usually represented as a mummy bearing the symbols of life, power, and stability.

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Ra` in ancient Egyptian mythology, sun god depicted with a human body and the head of a hawk. Ra was usually considered the creator and controller of the universe, his chief symbols being the sun disk and the obelisk.

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Ra-Horakhty` - god of both sky and Sun. A combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be God of the Rising Sun

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Re` in ancient Egyptian mythology, sun god depicted with a human body and the head of a hawk. Ra was usually considered the creator and controller of the universe, his chief symbols being the sun disk and the obelisk.

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Reshep` - war god that was originally from Syria

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Sais` person / place

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Satet` The main earlier sanctuary there belonged to the goddess Satet, who became Khnum's companion

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Sebek` Some gods were very strongly linked to particular animals, as Sebek was with the crocodile

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Seker`- god of death

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Sekhmet` godess

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Sepa` the millipede of the god Sepa

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Seshat` - scribe goddess

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Set` - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert, also Lower Egypt

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Setna`

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Shu` god of air, the offspring of the creator deity Ra and brother of Tefenet, the goddess of moisture. Shu and Tefenet produced the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb

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Sobek` the crocodile god, son of Neith

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Taurt` a goddess with similar associations whose physical form combined features of a hippopotamus and a crocodile

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Taweret` - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth

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Tefnut` - embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather

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Thoth` in Egyptian mythology, the god of the moon and of wisdom and learning. Thoth was represented as a scribe with the head of an ibis, which was the bird sacred to him.

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Wadj-wer` - fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta

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Wadjet` - snake goddess of lower Egypt

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Wepwawet` - jackal god of upper Egypt

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Wosret` - a localised guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus

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YATI` Name of members of a religious sect. Aton also spelled Aten, also called YATI, in ancient Egyptian religion, a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human hands, whose worship briefly was the state religion.

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