The deities of ancient Egypt oversaw virtually every aspect of existence, with gods and goddesses representing ... Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy ...

The deities in the following gallery are just 12 out of a possible 2,000 gods and goddesses who were worshipped in ancient Egypt. Some of them were major deities wielding great religious ...

Ancient Egyptian belief generated such exuberant creations as the scorpion goddess ... sacred to Thoth, god of wisdom. (fourth to first centuries B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Slowly, scholars are putting together a picture of Egyptian astronomy. The god Sah has been linked to stars in the Orion constellation, while the goddess Sopdet has been linked to the star Sirius.

Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt by P Boylan (Oxford, 1922) The Origins of Osiris and his Cult by JG Griffiths (Leiden, 1980) A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses by G Hart (London, 1986 ...