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| Hathor, in bovine form, emerges from a hill representing the Theban necropolis, in a copy of the Book of the Dead from the 13th century BC. (source: wiki) |
Gods:
Nu - Oldest of the ancient Egyptian gods and father of Ra, the sun god.
Nun's name means “primeval waters,” and he represented the waters of chaos out of which Re-Atum began creation. ... Nun was also thought to continue to exist as the source of the annual flooding of the Nile River
Ra - Sun God. He was often considered to be the King of the Gods and thus the patron of the pharaoh and one of the central gods of the Egyptian pantheon. He was also described as the creator of everything.
Isis - Goddess of the moon. As goddess of life and magic, Isis protected women and children, and healed the sick. She was the sister and wife of Osiris. Isis and Osiris had a son named Horus.
Shu - God of the air and supporter of the sky, created by Atum by his own power, without the aid of a woman. Shu and his sister and companion, Tefnut (goddess of moisture), were the first couple of the group of nine gods called the Ennead of Heliopolis
Tefnut - Deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion. She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut.
Seb - the Egyptian god of the earth and a mythological member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. he could also be considered a father of snakes. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter created earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow.
Nut - goddess of the sky, vault of the heavens, often depicted as a woman arched over the earth god Geb. ... As the goddess of the sky, Nut swallowed the sun in the evening and gave birth to it again in the morning
Hathor - 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, ears of a cow, or simply in cow form
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