Qadesh was Middle-Eastern goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure, adopted in the New Kingdom by the Egyptians into a triad with the gods Min and Reshep. Her name, probably meaning the…
Category: God & Godess
Khonsu
God of the moon, time, knowledge, have the appearance of a young man in the posture of a mummy with the royal sidelock and punt beard. He wears the moon disk on…
Selket
Selket, Serqet was the ancient Egyptian scorpion goddess of magic. As with other dangerous goddesses, she was both a protective goddess, and one who punished the wrong doers with her burning wrath….
Weneg
Weneg is an ancient son of Re referenced in Old Kingdom text. he seems to represent the cosmic order, rather like Re’s daughter, Ma’at, by supporting the sky and so keeping the…
Astarte
Astarte was actually a warrior goddess of Canaan and Syria who is a Western Semitic counterpart of the Akkadian Ishtar worshipped in Mesopotamia. In the Egyptian pantheon to which she was officially…
Egypt Ways
In Ancient Egypt, something horrible happened to a god. His eye was torn out by a god. The gods eye who was torn out was Horus. His eye was torn out by…
Fetket
Fetket was the butler of the sun god, Re, who provided the king with his drink supply. Hence, he is the ancient mythological equivalent of our bartender.
Qetesh, a goddess of love and beauty
Originally believed to be a Syrian deity, Qetesh was a goddess of love and beauty. Qetesh was depicted as a beautiful nude woman, standing or riding upon a lion, holding flowers, a…