Egyptian Mythology

Among the greatest civilizations of the Earth, the Egyptian civilization has a rich diverse mythology all of their own. They are famous for the unique beliefs which have made the world call them a people with high moral values.

Atum has been credited to being the finisher of the world, and was called The Complete One which he wil lreturn to chaos at the end of the creative cycle. He was seen as all aspects of the world, the deities and all things being made of himself. One of the most prominent deities from the ancient times,he is portrayed as both a creator and father to the phraroh.

Atum was considered to be the first God, having created himself from the primordial waters Nu. Atum created the God Shu and the Goddess Tefnut.

The Egyptians believed that Atum lifted the dead pharoh's soul from his pyramid to the heavens. Known also a Solar God, with Sun God Ra, usually with the evening Sun.

Atum, the first being to emerge from the darkness and endless abyss of the world before creation., he created divine and human beings. He is sometimes he is shown as a serpent, or as a bull or lizard.

Ptah is the patron of construction, metalworking, and sculpture, carpenters and shipbuilders.The glory of the Pyramids attest to the high value this God had for this anceint prople. Ptah was one of five major Egyptian gods with Ra, Osiris, Isis and Amun.

Ptah is the creator God he existed before all things, and by him the world was first conceived by Thought, and realized by the Word. He is shown in many forms. He is sometimes represented as a dwarf , howener, is generally represente as a man with green skin, wearing the divine beard, and holding a sceptre.






The ancient Egyptians believed in the concept of life after death. The ancient Egyptians considered the humans to be the gift as children of the Gods. On the death of a person, the body would be preserved with at most care without any signs of decay even though the motion of the body has completely stopped. The dead person’s body was preserved for the manifestation of individual spirit. The body of the person would be mummified and placed in the coffin as if the person was asleep; they buried the utensils, ornaments, the toiletries and essentials required by the person in his journey after death. They even placed weapons for the protection of the person and food inside of the burial chambers.

Anubis the jackal headed God of ancient Egypt is associated with the mummification and the dead in the afterlife. He was depicted as half human, half jackal. Since the jackal was a scavenger which threatened to consume dead bodies it was associated with cemetaries. During embalming ceremonies the embalmer wore an Anubis costume. One of the decrees of Anubis was the Guardian of the Scales deciding by the weight of truth where with the weighing the Heart Anubis determined the fate of souls.

Anubis was known to be the son of Ra, but in later myths he was thought to be son of Osiris. Anubis' half-brother was Horus, son of Osiris and Isis. One myth says that Anubis is the son of Nephthys and Set, Osiris' brother and the god of the desert and darkness.

Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in the ancient Egyptian Religion. He was most often depicted as a falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.

Horus is the first known national god, the king who is a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. Horus is the son of the Goddess Isis and the God Osiris. Horus role emcompassed many functions but most commonly being the god of the sun, war and protection.

Horus was born to the goddess Isis after she had found all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Orisis except his penis which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish. She used her Goddess powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a gold member to conceive. Once Isis knew she was pregnant with Horus, she fled to hide from her brother Set who had killed Osiris and would have wanted to kill their son. Isis bore a divine son, Horus.

The Pharaoh as Horus in life became the Pharaoh as Osiris in death, where he was united with the rest of the gods. New incarnations of Horusin later incarnations succeeded the deceased pharaoh on earth in the form of new Pharaohs.

Set born of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb. His twin sister and wife was Nepthys. Another set of twins of Nut and Geb who became husband and wife: were the divine Osiris and Isis and their son was Horus.

The myths concerning these characters portray Osiris as a wise king, and content with his sister, Isis. Set envious of his brother killed and dismembered Osiris. Isis gathered his dismembered body and embalmed him. Osiris reigned over the afterworld as a king of the spirits of the dead. Horus his son was conceived by Isis.

From the land of the Sphinx comes tales of Gods with the faults of humans combined with the wisdom of the Gods. Intriging in form as in the emotional turmoils that these myths show of a civilization that has endured through the centuries and lives on until today. Pure in its attempts to understand the world in which they lived and the world that has lived on because of them.