This group holds the deities of ancient Egyptian religion, worshipped along the Nile for more than three thousand years. Egyptian gods are marked by their fluid, composite forms (human bodies with animal heads, gods who merge and split, local deities who rise to national importance), and by a theology bound tightly to kingship, the sun and the afterlife.
The browser will find the sun-god Ra in his many forms, the Osiris myth cycle (Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, Nephthys) that structured beliefs about death and rulership, the creator Atum and the ordering goddess Maat, and figures such as Thoth, Anubis, Hathor, Ptah and Amun who dominated particular eras and cities.