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This is KimJud11 I did my project on two of the egyptian gods, Serqet and Thoth. Serqet(a.k.a. Selket, Serket, Selqet, Selkit, Selkis) was a scorpion goddess. She had many forms. Sometimes, she was a woman with a scorpion on her head. She was also seen as a scorpion with the head of a woman, but that was rare. She was also seen wearing the headdress of Hathor(a solar disk with cow horns). Sometimes she had a head of a lioness and a protective crocodile at the back of her neck. Her most famous form was a golden figure that forms one of the four goddesses protecting Tutankhamun found in his tomb. Serqet was the wife of Horus, the mother of Horakhty and Nehebkau, a snake god that protected the Pharoah from snakebites. She was also believed to be the mother or daughter of Ra. Serqet was viewed as a protective goddess, but she had a darker side. She had power over all venomous snakes and scorpions like Meretseger and Isis. She could protect a person from venonous snake bites, but she could also send out snakes and scorpions to punish people she disapproved of. She was originally worshipped in the Delta, but her popularity spread, so no temples specifically dedicated to her has been recovered. An interesting fact about Serqet is that she also protected Ra as he travelled though the underworld each night. She was said to watch over any dangerous twist in the path and was responsible for keeping the serpent Apep when he was imprisoned in the netherworld from attacking the sun god.

Thoth(a.k.a. Tehuty, Djehuty) was the god of wisdom and learning. An interesting fact about him was that he was self-created in the beginning along with his consort, Ma'at(truth), and they produced eight children. Another interesting fact was that he and Ma'at stood on either side of Ra in his boat as he(as the Sun) travelled across the sky. Thoth was the creater of magic, inventer of writing, and the teacher of man. He was also the scribe of the afterworld, and wrote the __Book of the Dead__. Thoth was the messenger of the gods and the great counselor, and the other gods came to him and asked for advice. He was considered to be a lunar deity, and wears a lunar crescent on his head. He won a portion of Khonsu's light, and this may be the reason. Thoth's symbols are the ibis, baboon, writing palette, and reed pens. His cult center was Hermopolis. Thoth was seen as a man with the head of an ibis holding a scribe's palette and stylus, a full ibis, or a full baboon. He was also identified as Hermes by the Greeks. Thoth was in charge of quesioning the souls of the dead about their deeds in their lives before their heart was weighed against the feather of Ma'at.

This is for S Fosmark

Ra was the main god of the sun who was believed to have created the world. The Egyptians built pyramids in alignment with the sun to worship him. They buried the dead on the west side of the Nile, because that was where the sun went down. One legend says that each day, Ra was born and started a journey across the sky in a boat. At the end of the day, when the sun went down, he died and started a night journey. At night, Ra was called Auf, which means corpse. Some other names for Ra are Re and Phra. Ra is the father of Shu and Tefnut and the grandfather of Geb and Nut. Ra's enemy was a serpent (or snake) named Apep. Ra usually won, but on stormy days the Egyptians thought that Apep had swallowed the sun! Ra is usually shown as a hawk or hawk-headed man wearing a solar disk on his head, or sometimes the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Khonsu was the god of the moon and time, and sometimes healing. He is the son of Amun and Mut. Some Egyptians believed Khonsu could heal sick people and keep away evil spirits. In early Egypt, Khonsu was violent and dangerous. He even helped the dead king catch and //**__eat__ other gods**//**!** Good thing he changed after a while! Some variations of his name are Khons, Chons, Khensu, Khonshu, and Chonsu. During the new moon, he was called the "mighty bull". Khonsu is shown wrapped in mummy cloth and wearing a lunar disk, resting in a crescent moon, on his head. He holds a crook (hooked staff) and a flail (wooden staff with a short, heavy stick[s] hanging from it). He is also sometimes shown as a falcon-headed man.

This is for C Fury __Ra__ is the sun, the main god. His other names are Re and Phra People believe he created the Earth, people also believed that he was swallowed by the Sky Goddess Nut every night and was called Auf at night and reborn every morning. Ra is a man with a hawk head, a headress and a sun disk. People buried the dead bodies on the west side of the nile river, they did this because the sun sets on the west. Ra's sons are shu and tefnut, his grandsons are Geb and Nut. An enemie of Ra was Apep. Apep is a snake or you can also call it a serpent. On the dark non-sonny days Apep won and had swallowed Ra. Although Ra won most of the times.

__Atum__ Egytians believed that Atum was the first god to exicist on Earth!!!! Egyptians also believed that he created all gods. He was the most important god to be worshiped in lower Egypt. But of coarse until Ra came. He was origanally asscociated with Re the sun god. Atum is the Earth god.