Home›Egyptian Deities›Worshipped InBrowse ByWorshipped InThis page groups deities by the religion whose adherents actively worship them, connecting a god to the living or historical community that maintains their cult. Wikipedia defines cult, in the religious sense, as "the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities or saints and their temples, shrines, or churches." Browsing this way lets a visitor see every deity that belongs to one religion's worship, rather than reading about gods religion by religion.FactsLearn MoreWorshipped InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsAttestationEra of AttestationWell-attestedDivine names appear on First Dynasty monuments from about 3100 BCE, and the first substantial theological corpus is the Pyramid Texts of about 2350 BCE. The last hieroglyphic inscription was cut at Philae in 394 CE and the temple was closed in the sixth century. 2Veneration TodayWell-attestedThe temple cult ended in late antiquity; no continuous worship survives. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe gods of ancient Egyptian religion across more than three millennia of one continuous tradition. Egyptian deities merge, split and change rank with the fortunes of their cities, so the grouping is a set of forms rather than a fixed roll, and each entry marks the period a form belongs to. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDeities 1Learn MoreThe gods of ancient Egypt 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.Sun, Kingship and the Dead Egyptian religion changed across its long history (the brief monotheism of Akhenaten's Aten, the rise of Amun-Ra at Thebes, the late syncretism that carried Isis across the Roman world), and the entries flag which period a form belongs to. Much of what survives concerns the passage of the dead and the divine role of the pharaoh, recorded in temple reliefs and funerary texts such as the Book of the Dead. The atlas describes each god's domains, cult centres and iconography as the sources present them.Worshipped InFilter Results2 entriesEra of Decline End YearAll550 (1)600 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll300 (1)380 (1)Era of Modern Revival End YearAll1471 (1)Era of Modern Revival Start YearAll1463 (1)Origin Period End YearAll3000 BCE (1)300 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll3300 BCE (1)1 (1)Place of OriginAllRoman Egypt, chiefly Alexandria (1)The Nile valley (1)Practice StatusAllDiscontinued as a state religion (1)Living, and practised in varied local forms (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (2)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)TheologyAllEmanationist: reality proceeds from an ineffable One (1)Monistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Polytheistic: many gods (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAncient Egyptian ReligionWorshipped In31 entriesHermeticismWorshipped In1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypttier 1Donald B. Redford (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2001s.v. Gods and GoddessesView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.