By

JJ

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Sun God .The sun

god Ra is most closely

associated with the

legends and myths

surrounding the sun god

Atum and his story is

related to the Ennead.

The Ennead is a

collective name given to

the nine deities.(Gods

and Goddesses) The

story of creation relates

that the sun god Ra rose

in the beginning from

the primeval ocean

called Nun.

Ra

Goddess Isis was

seen as the

goddess of love,

magic,fertility, and

healing. She was

also seen as a

protective goddess

and was generally

believed to be the

protector of the

Pharaoh. She was

the wife of her

brother Osiris.

Isis

The Egyptian god,

Osiris, was know as the

god of death , therefore

closely associated with

the prayers of the

bereaved. One of his

roles was as a judge of

the dead in the

afterlife. People

believed that in the

winter he would

disappear into the

underworld with all of

the crops. He was the

husband of Isis and

father of the god Horus.

Osiris

The goddess Nephthys is

seen as the goddess of

divine assistance but also

death. Nephthys was the

wife of her brother Seth

and the mother of Anubis

by her brother Osiris.

Brother and sister was

seen as an acceptable

element in the lives of the

Egyptian gods and

goddesses, retaining the

sacred bloodline. Seth

murdered Osiris and

Nephthys helped the

widowed goddess Isis

collect the scattered limbs

of Osiris and helped with

his resurrection.

Nephthys

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