GENERAL INDEX
Letters A
to B 
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Town in High Egypt whiwh origns are in the eldest prehistory age . See pages devoted to this town in my Site .
Ach
God of the desert of Libye , a god near the famous Seth.
Aheqet
Godess with a frog head , she symbolised the life and
the fecundity . She often give the sign of life to the noze of the children modelé
modeled by the god Khnwm . She was the godess of the town of Hirour, near by the actual
Achmwnein .
Aker
Primeavl Gog , earth god . He was symbolised by two foreleggs of lions
or by two human heads in faces opposited . In the neverworld , he make sure
the passage of Rê on his back . The Akerw , that is the earth gods , plurial of Aker ,
are primeval gods of the earth , who had preceded the very known earth god Geb . He
play a role of door keeper in the entrance of hell , and he was a welldone god
for deceaseds .
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Pharaoh from the XVIIIth dynasty, probably the second son of Amenhotep III , to whom he suceed under the famous name Akhenaton or Amenhotep IV
He was Nefertiti's Husband , the well known Queen , also father and father in law of Toutankhamon.
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Town in Middle Egypt built by Akhenaton , today called Tell-el-Amarna.
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Second pharaoh of the XVIIIth dynasty , son of Ahmes Ist and of the queen Ahmes Nefertary
He make a war against Nubia and one another against libyens , perhaps in Palestina , but we are no sure .
When he died he was deifed and was worshipped in the theban necropolis .
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Main Gog of Thzbes ; who replaced Montou at the end of the Old Kingdom .
His name means the hidden one . He is shown generaly like a stanted blue man , with two feathers which are in relationship as his symbol : the wind .
Amawnet
Counter part of Amun , according to the heliopolitan theology .
She was include in the great Ogdoade .
Andj
God of the 21th gate , in the famous Book of the Gates , which could
find in the tombs of the Valley of the Kins .
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Primeval god of Heliopolis, shown under as a standed man , bearing the crown
pschent . He was associated with god Chu and with godess Tefnut to form a triad
of Heliopolis . He means in fact the sunset god Rê .
Anubis
God with a chacal head or dog head , who finf in the
reliefs of egyptian tombs . He was often shown as the form of a human with a
head of chacal . He is the embalmed god . His name in eyptian was Inpu .
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Town in the actual eastern Delta , build for frist time by Hyksôs between Middle Kingdom and New Kindom . It was destroy by pharaoh Ahmose at the begenning of the XVIIIth dynasty .
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Before last pharaoh of XVIII th dynasty, he was the successor of Toutankhamon .
Banebdjeb
Dieu bélier de Mendès , dans le Delta . Son nom
signifie " âme ( = ba ) , seigneur ( = neb) de Mendès ( = Djeb ) " . On lui avait associé
une déesse poisson , Hatmehyt , et il aurait été , aussi , le père d'Hapocrate .
Baq
Godess of the divine assembled belonging to the 21th gate .
Basty
Name of one of the forty juges of the Osiris tribunal .
Bat
Godess of the 7th nome of High Egypt ; his cow head shapped looks like Hathor .
Bes
General word to design various dwarf gods with monstrously faces
whe bear often a feather crown and a mane of lion . Those are well done divinities
who fight the pain , particulary at the born of a child . His cult was
intensified in the lower espochs . He was present in the low social people .
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Daughter and wife of Ramses II . We could find her name , graved , in the first hall of Great Temple of Abou Simbel ,
on a colosso in Temple of Ouadi-es-Sebouâ , on stela in Assousan , one another in Silsileh . Mention , too ,
in the Temple of Louxor and on a granite colosso at Karnak .
Boukhis
Sacred bull of the god Montw , who was burried in the halls of the
subterranean Boucheum in the city of Ermant .
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American Egyptologist .
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