Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.

* Ash ( god ), the ancient Egyptian god of oases

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Shu was the ancient Egyptian god of air and the husband of Tefnut, goddess of moisture.

Indeed, he was represented as a sun god on Egyptian coins.

Instances in Egyptian literature where " god " is mentioned without reference to any specific deity would seem to give this view added weight.

He therefore argued that, while some individuals may have henotheistically chosen one god to worship, Egyptian religion as a whole had no notion of a divine being beyond the immediate multitude of deities.

It is possible that only the Egyptian theologians fully recognized this underlying unity, but it is also possible that ordinary Egyptians identified the single divine force with a single god in particular situations.

The exclusion of all but one god was a radical departure from Egyptian tradition and some see Akhenaten as a practitioner of monolatry rather than monotheism, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods ; he simply refrained from worshipping any but the Aten.

It was also around this time that the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with both writing and magic, and therefore of books on magic.

Herodotus connected Heracles both to Phoenician god Melqart and to the Egyptian god Shu.

27th century BC ( circa 2650 – 2600 BC ) ( Egyptian meaning " the one who comes in peace, is with peace "), was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.

* Anubis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις ) is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Herodotus reported a temple to her in Egypt supposedly attached to a floating island called " Khemmis " in Buto, which also included a temple to an Egyptian god Greeks identified by interpretatio graeca as Apollo.

We say from the Saxon, good ; the Dane, god ; the Goth, goda ; the German, gut ; the Dutch, goed ; the Latin, bonus ; the Greek, kalos ; the Hebrew, tob ; and the Egyptian, mon.

* Apis, the Egyptian god is often depicted as a bull, or bull-headed man.

Osiris (;, also Usiris ; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Asari, Aser, Ausar, Ausir, Wesir, Usir, Usire or Ausare ) was an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead.

He is the son of Nephthys and Set according to the Egyptian mythology.

Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian Religious beliefs by the contrast of the Gods Set ( disorder, death ) and Osiris ( order, life ).

This process, necessarily different and distinctive for each individual, is referred to within the Temple by the Egyptian hieroglyphic term Kheper, or " Xeper " ( a phonetic of _Xpr_ ), as the Temple of Set prefers to write it.

The term is deemed central to Setian philosophy and practice, having been introduced at the founding of the Temple of Set in 1975, when Aquino made the claim that the Egyptian god Set communicated the word Xeper in the sense of " become " to him during the " North Solstice X Working " aka " The Santa Barbara Working.

A red hippo represented the Ancient Egyptian god Set ; the thigh is the ' phallic leg of set ' symbolic of virility.

Set — whom Plutarch, using Greek names for many of the Egyptian deities, refers to as " Typhon "— conspires against Osiris with seventy-three other people.

In Egyptian accounts, the pregnant Isis hides from Set, to whom the unborn child is a threat, in a thicket of papyrus in the Nile Delta.

Horus may receive the fertile lands around the Nile, the core of Egyptian civilization, in which case Set takes the barren desert or the foreign lands that are associated with it ; Horus may rule the earth while Set dwells in the sky ; and each god may take one of the two traditional halves of the country, Upper and Lower Egypt, in which case either god may be connected with either region.

He argued that, in the early stages of Egyptian mythology, the struggle between Horus and Set as siblings and equals was originally separate from the murder of Osiris.

Set () or Seth (; also spelled Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, or Suty ) is a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion.

In Egyptian mythology, Set is portrayed as the usurper that killed and mutilated his own brother Osiris.

The death of Osiris and the battle between Horus and Set is a popular theme in Egyptian mythology.

The meaning of the name Set is unknown, thought to have been originally pronounced * based on the occurrence of his name in Egyptian hieroglyphs (), and his later mention in the Coptic documents with the name Sēt.

Nonetheless, the Set cult at Avaris flourished, and the Egyptian garrison of Ahmose stationed there became part of the priesthood of Set.

In Egyptian mythology, Horus was conceived by Isis, the mother goddess, from Osiris, the original god-king of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set, and thus became the god of the underworld.

Since Herodotus, Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set.

This part of the mythology concerning Herakles appears to have origins in a corruption of an Egyptian myth concerning Osiris ' sacrifice by Set, and subsequent resurrection ( see Legend of Osiris and Isis ).

* Set ( mythology ), an ancient Egyptian god of strength, violence, and disorder

Levai notes that while Plutarch ’ s De Iside et Osiride mentions the deity's marriage, there is very little specifically linking Nephthys and Set in the original early Egyptian sources.

while Nephthys ’ s marriage to Set was a part of Egyptian mythology, it was not a part of the myth of the murder and resurrection of Osiris.

Ptolemy's policy was to find a deity that should win the reverence alike of both groups, despite the curses of the Egyptian priests against the gods of the previous foreign rulers ( i. e. Set who was lauded by the Hyksos ).

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

These scripts are thought to derive from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet ( dated to about 1500 BC ), which is thought to derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

* Some ancient Egyptian statues of Anubis read ,"... I am death ... I eat ambrosia and drink blood ..." which hints that ambrosia is a food of some sort.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

* J. J. Bellermann thinks it a compound of the Egyptian words abrak and sax, meaning “ the honorable and hallowed word ,” or “ the word is adorable .”

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

Here Acts 12: 21-23 is largely parallel to Antiquities 19. 8. 2 ; ( 2 ) the cause of the Egyptian pseudo-prophet in Acts 21: 37f and in Josephus ( War 2. 13. 5 ; Antiquities 20. 8. 6 ); ( 3 ) the curious resemblance as to the order in which Theudas and Judas of Galilee are referred to in both ( Acts 5: 36f ; Antiquities 20. 5. 1 ).

In addition, there is no evidence whatsoever in Assyrian, Babylonian, Median, Persian, Greek or Egyptian records of the time mentioning deportations of Assyrians from their homelands

The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

It is likely to be an artifact of the flourishing culture of Meroë, successors to the culture of Kush, because of the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs and cartouches.

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

He is considered to be a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.