Egypt

The gods

27 deities, each with what Egyptian sources say about them and — kept in its own historical context — how later esoteric traditions understood and worked with them.

Where the figures come from Fetched and attributed, never drawn here

Every figure below was fetched from Wikimedia Commons by its exact file title and carries its own licence and author, shown on the god's own page. None of them was drawn for this site: a god invented from memory is indistinguishable from a real one to anybody reading this, which is the rule the Goetia seals and Dee's letterforms already follow.

They are Creative Commons rather than public domain, which is a deliberate second exception after the Enochian letterforms and for the same reason. Budge's 1904 plates are public domain and are on Commons — under Flickr filenames like (14577696327), which say nothing about which god they show. A consistent, titled, attributable set is worth more than a public-domain one nobody can identify. Third-party notices records what ships.

  1. Ra The sun, and kingship
  2. Osiris The dead, resurrection and rule
  3. Isis Magic, kingship and mourning
  4. Horus Kingship and the sky
  5. Set Storm, disorder and the desert
  6. Thoth Writing, reckoning and the moon
  7. Anubis Embalming and the passage of the dead
  8. Maat Truth, order and the right working of things
  9. Hathor Love, music, drunkenness and the sky
  10. Sekhmet Plague, war and healing
  11. Ptah Craft, making and creation by speech
  12. Amun Hidden power, and empire
  13. Nut The sky
  14. Geb The earth
  15. Shu Air, and the space between
  16. Nephthys Mourning, and the protection of the dead
  17. Bastet Protection, the home and cats
  18. Sobek The Nile, and crocodiles
  19. Khnum The Nile's source, and the making of bodies
  20. Khonsu The moon, and time
  21. Mut Motherhood, and queenship
  22. Atum The first god, and completion
  23. Khepri The rising sun, and coming into being
  24. Taweret Childbirth and the protection of mothers
  25. Neith Weaving, war and creation
  26. Min Fertility, and the eastern desert roads
  27. Serqet Scorpions, venom and healing