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EGYPTIAN DEITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Egyptian deity" is a kind of...):
deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Instance hyponyms:
Thoth (Egyptian Moon deity with the head of an ibis; god of wisdom and learning and the arts; scribe of the gods)
Set; Seth (evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris)
Eye of Ra; Sekhet (a lion-headed Egyptian goddess; typifies life-destroying power of the sun)
Ra; Re (ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods)
Ptah (a major Egyptian god; shaper of the world; father of gods and men; worshipped especially at Memphis)
Osiris (Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus)
Nut (Egyptian goddess of the sky)
Nephthys (Egyptian goddess associated with ritual of the dead; sister of Geb and Nut; wife of Set)
Min (an Egyptian god of procreation)
Khepera (Egyptian god of the morning sun; creator)
Isis (Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris)
Horus (Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon; the son of Osiris and Isis)
Geb; Keb (Egyptian god of the earth; father of Osiris and Isis)
Bast (cat- or lion-headed Egyptian goddess; represents life-giving power of the sun)
Aten; Aton (the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten)
Anpu; Anubis (Egyptian god of tombs and ruler of the underworld; usually depicted as a man with the head of a jackal)
Amen-Ra; Amon-Ra; Amun Ra (Egyptian sun god; supreme god of the universe in whom Amen and Ra were merged; principal deity during Theban supremacy)
Amen; Amon; Amun (a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes)
