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![Eye of Horus](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6204.jpg?v=1726168806)
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Eye of Horus
An Egyptian protective amulet in the form of the Eye of Horus (wedjat). Earthenware, 6th-4th century BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)
![Horus](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/774.jpg?v=1733054647)
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Horus
Horus is the name of a sky god in ancient Egyptian mythology which designates primarily two deities: Horus the Elder (or Horus the Great), the last born of the first five original gods, and Horus the Younger, the son of Osiris and Isis...
![Egyptian Gods - The Complete List](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3463.jpg?v=1736296265-1721373592)
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Egyptian Gods - The Complete List
The gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt were an integral part of the people's everyday lives for over 3,000 years. There were over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon, many whose names are well known - Isis, Osiris, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor...
![Set (Egyptian God)](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11437.png?v=1681863967)
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Set (Egyptian God)
Set, also known as Seth and Suetekh, was the Egyptian god of war, chaos, and storms, brother of Osiris, Isis, and Horus the Elder, uncle to Horus the Younger, and brother-husband to Nephthys. His other consort was the goddess Tawaret, a hippo-headed...
![The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4817.jpg?v=1733762049)
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The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys
The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys is an ancient Egyptian text in which the two goddess-sisters call the soul of the god Osiris to rejoin the living. The poem takes the form of a call-and-response liturgy and the dual entreaties of the...
![Nephthys](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4621.jpg?v=1733762052-1721374661)
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Nephthys
Nephthys was one of the original five gods of ancient Egypt born of the union of Geb (earth) and Nut (sky) after the creation of the world. She was the fourth born after Osiris, Isis, and Set and was the older sister of Horus (usually referred...
![Setna II: A Detailed Summary & Commentary](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6577.jpg?v=1639357202)
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Setna II: A Detailed Summary & Commentary
Setna II (also Setna Khaemaus and Si-Osire) is a work of ancient Egyptian literature from Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 646 CE) written in demotic script. It is part of a cycle of stories known as the Tales of Prince Setna featuring a character based...
![Hathor](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/898.jpg?v=1728096785)
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Hathor
Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated, later, with Isis and, earlier, with Sekhmet but eventually was considered the primeval goddess from whom all others were derived. She is usually depicted as a woman with the head of a cow...
![Osiris](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4579.jpg?v=1734345469-1734345558)
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Osiris
Osiris is the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead, brother-husband to Isis, and one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt. The name `Osiris' is the Latinized form of the Egyptian Usir which is interpreted as 'powerful'...
![Field of Reeds (Aaru)](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4787.jpg?v=1718007963)
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Field of Reeds (Aaru)
A'Aru (The Field of Reeds) was the Egyptian afterlife, an idealized vision of one's life on earth (also known as Sekhet-A'Aru and translated as The Field of Rushes). Death was not the end of life but a transition to another part of one's...