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Geb

The God of the earth, whose sister was the sky goddess Nut; they were of the second generation in the Ennead (group of nine gods) of Heliopolis. He was the third divine ruler among the gods; the human pharaohs claimed to be descended from him. He was the father of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.

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Geb

Atum

A creator god and solar deity of Heliopolis. Atum's myth merged with that of the sun god Ra (Re), to form the god Ra-Atum (or Re-Atum). Atum came into being before heaven and earth were separated, rising up from Nun (the waters of chaos) to form the Primeval Mound. He was identified with the sett...

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Atum

Ptah

In Egyptian religion, the creator god and maker of things, the patron of crafts and craftsmen, and represented as a mummy. His chief cult center was at Memphis, capital of Egypt from the 1st Dynasty, worshipped from earliest times and throughout Dynastic Period. The Greeks identified Ptah with He...

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Ptah

Tammuz

Consort of the Sumerian goddess Ishtar who was prominent in the fertility rituals of the Sacred Marriage. Upon death, he became a god of the underworld. The earliest known mention of Tammuz is in texts dating to the early part of the Early Dynastic III period (c 2600-2334 BC), but his cult was pr...

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Tammuz

Serapis

A Greco-Egyptian composite god resulting from the fusion of the Egyptian god Osorapis (who, in death, became assimilated to the god Osiris as Osiris-Apis) with attributes of a number of Hellenistic gods, notably Zeus, Helios, Hades, Asklepios, and Dionysos.

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Serapis

Marduk

The god of Babylon who in the 13th-12th centuries BC ousted Enlil as the most prominent god in the Sumerian pantheon. He became the ruler of the gods rather than just their head, which represented a shift in the relationship between the gods - paralleling the rise in power of the Mesopotamian kin...

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Marduk

Osiris

The ancient Egyptian god of death, represented as an anthropoid figure with mummy body. He was brother and husband to Isis and the father of Horus. Through them he was linked to the vegetation cycle myth. Slain by his brother Seth in the autumn, his dismembered and scattered remains were collecte...

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Osiris

Wepwawet

Egyptian jackal-god portrayed on the Narmer palette at the end of the fourth millennium BC, the opener of the way for king's foreign conquests or for deceased into netherworld. Asyut (Syut) was the center of his worship.

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Wepwawet

Dumuzi

A shepherd god of Sumerian myth, husband of Inanna. Dumuzi is Tammuz in later western Asian myth.

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Dumuzi

Khons

An ancient Egyptian moon god in the form of a young man. Khons was regarded as the son of the god Amon and the goddess Mut. In the period of the late New Kingdom, c 1100 BC, a major temple was built for Khons in the Karnak complex at Thebes. Khons also was associated with baboons and was sometime...

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Khons

Sokar

God of the Memphite necropolis, often mummiform in appearance, with the head of a hawk. He was possibly patron of craftsmen and a fertility god.

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Sokar

Ea

Mesopotamian / Sumerian (Enki) god of water and a member of the triad of deities completed by Anu (Sumerian An) and Bel (Enlil). From a local deity worshipped in the city of Eridu, Ea evolved into a major god, Lord of Apsu, the fresh waters beneath the earth. Ea, the Akkadian counterpart of Enki,...

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Ea

Dionysus

Dionysos (Διονυσος) veya diğer adıyla Bacchus (Bakkhos, Βακχος) Yunan mitolojisinde şarap, bağcılık, haz, cümbüş ve coşkunluk tanrısıdır. Zeus ile Thebai prensesi Semele'nin oğlu olan Dionysos, en genç, Olympos'a en son kabul edilmiş ve annesi bir ölümlü olan yegane Olympos'lu tanrıdır. Ya uzun s...

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Dionysus

Dionysos (Dionysus) was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. He was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. He wa...

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Dionysus

The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Bacchus (Βάκχος), that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of Herodotus. According to the common tradition...

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Dionysus

Zeus

Zeus was the King of the Gods and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate, and kingship. He was depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes were a lightning bolt, a royal sceptre and an eagle.

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Zeus

The greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronus and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera. When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseid...

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Zeus

Cronus

The youngest of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaea. He castrated and deposed his father and assumed power. Cronus and his wife Rhea ruled over the world which during that time experienced a golden age.

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Cronus

In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ˈkroʊnəs/ or /ˈkroʊnɒs/, US: /-oʊs/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythologica...

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Cronus