A more complete version with much more information on the different gods and goddesses of the Amduat

1. Modern Day Egypt and the placement
of the Valley of the Kings

2. Valley of the Kings

4. Tomb of Hatshepsut

5. Entrance to the Tomb of King Tut

6. Tomb of Tuthmoses III with images of
Amduat on walls

7. Tutankhamun

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9. Rosetta Stone
Ancient
Egyptian
Demotic
Greek

10. The creator God Khnum

11. Khnum having created the Ba and Ka

12. Ra with the sun disk on his head

13. Nut holding up the sky

14. Nut

15. Nut in her form as a cow

16. Geb

17. Geb, the god of the earth and Nut, the
goddess of the sky

18. Thoth, Associated with the heart: the
seat of the wisdom

19. Thoth

20. Thoth with baboon head

22. Osiris and Isis

23. King Tut with Nut from the tomb of
Tutankhamen

24. Amduat First Hour

25. Ankh sign of life

26. First Hour

27. Maat: wearing ostrich feather

28. The Hdt or Hedget: White Crown of
Upper Egypt

29. Copy of a painted limestone wall relief from Thebes
shows Mentuhoptep II, the last Pharaoh to wear the
Red Crown of Lower Egypt.

30. The Hedget, the white crown of Upper
Egypt and the Deshret, the Red Crown
of Lower Egypt

31. Sekhmet

32. First Hour

33. Khepri

34. Khepri

35. Khepri

36. Neith wearing the Red Crown of Lower
Egypt

37. Nephthys

38. Detail from First Hour, lower register

39. Review of first hour

41. Amduat 2nd Hour

43. Amduat 2nd Hour

44. Ma-at

45. Maat: with the ostrich feather, she is justice
and truth personified as a goddess and here
she is holding the ankh and Was sceptre

46. Ma-at

47. In this familiar image of the weighing of
the heart, ones heart is weighed by
Anubis against the weight of Ma-at’s
feather

48. Remember that Anubis is the child of
Nepthys and Osiris…the infant left in
the rushes, found by Isis , and raised
as her own child.
Anubis monitored the Scales of Truth
to protect the dead from deception
and eternal death.

49. Preparation of a mummy by Anubis

50. Weighing of the heart of the deceased
by Anubis. This protects the dead from
deception

51. Sekhmet (Sakhmet) is one of the oldest known
Egyptian deities. Her name is derived from the
Egyptian word "Sekhem" (which means "power"
or "might") and is often translated as the
"Powerful One".

52. Sekmet has many
attributes, but
above all, she is the
protector of Ma-at,
balance or justice.
Sekmet is also called
"The One Who Loves
Ma´at and Who Detests
Evil".

53. Horus was the protector and
patron of the pharaoh.
Horus was associated
with Upper Egypt (as
Heru-Ur in Nekhen) and
Lower Egypt (as Horus
Behedet or Horus of
Edfu) he was the perfect
choice for a unified
country

54. An ancient myth describes a battle
between Horus and Set in which Horus´
right eye was torn out and Set lost his
testicles! Thoth magically restored Horus´
eye, at which point it was given the name
"Wadjet" ("whole" or "healthy").

55. The Wadjet (or Ujat, meaning "Whole
One") is a powerful symbol of protection
also known as the "Eye of Horus" and the
"all seeing eye".

56. During the battle with
Set, the eye of Horus
was torn into 6 parts:
each section depicting a
fraction and a one of the
senses

57. Horus-Set
Horus and Set were
always placed in
opposition to each
other
Set was the
embodiment of
disorder and chaos
while Horus was the
embodiment of order.

58. Horus and Set crowning Rameses the
2nd

59. Horus represented the
daytime sky while Set
represented the night
time sky. However, in
early times the two
were also seen as
existing in a state of
balance in which
Horus and Set
represented Upper
and Lower Egypt
respectively

60. The moon and the sun were initially
thought of as the left and right eyes
of Horus. According to legend,
Horus' left eye (the moon) was
injured in a fight with Set and was
restored by Thoth, the ibis headed
god

61. Thoth, healer
of the divine
eye

62. Thoth, god
of wisdom
and lunar
god, who
helped Nut
by playing
game with
Khonsu

63. Khnum:ancient Egyptian god of
fertility, associated with water and with
procreation

64. Khnum

65. Geb, the god of the earth and Nut, the
goddess of the sky

66. Isis was her Greek name, but she
was known to the ancient Egyptians
as Aset (or Ast, Iset, Uset), which is
usually translated as "(female) of
throne" or "Queen of the throne".
Her original headdress was an
empty throne and as the
personification of the throne she
was an important source of the
Pharaoh´s power

67. ISIS

68. Amduat 2nd Hour

69. These next 4 boats are
actually following the sun
barque, carrying provisions
and symbols

70. Sobek, Ancient god of crocodiles

71. Sobek with Hathor

72. Sobek

73. Isis with the
suckling Horus

74. The Virgin Nursing the Child with St. John
the Baptist in Adoration
Portugese artist Giampietrino

75. Amduat 2nd Hour

76. 3rd hour Amduat

77. Ptah: creator God of Memphis

78. Falcon making the Henu gesture of
praise

79. Sokar, the solar god is imaged as a man
with the head of a falcon or as a falcon

80. 3rd hour Amduat

81. Elephantine

82. The Hedget, the white crown of Upper
Egypt and the Deshret, the Red Crown
of Lower Egypt

84. At around 3100 B.C., King Menes
defeated the king of Lower Egypt. After
this he united both lands and called
himself king of both Upper Egypt and
Lower Egypt.

85. Around 3000 BC, King Menes
established Memphis as the capital of
the unified Egypt

86. The legend goes on to tell how
King Menes even designed a new
crown to celebrate his victory.
This double crown was there for
the union of the two lands. King
Menes and his family formed the
first ever Egyptian dynasty.

88. Third Hour: Rowing on the water of Osiris

89. In the Amduat, the triumph of life over
death is imaged over and over in the
symbolism of vegetation
The Blessed Dead are provided with
everything they need in the fertile
fields of Wernes, and those who dwell
on the riverbanks are given acres of
land from the Great God.

90. Thus the 3rd hour is also called:
Water of the Unique Lord, which brings
forth nourishment

92. Anubis, the jackal headed God, son of Nephthys and Osiris
God of embalming

93. PTAH
The creator-god of
Memphis, and during the
long period the city served
as the capital of Egypt it
was known as Het-ka-Ptah
or "House of the Soul of
Ptah".

95. Shabaka stone containing the theology
of Memphis

96. The heiroglyph text of the Shabaka
stone:likely the first record of theistic
creation in existence

98. Henu Position

100. The name of the 2nd Barque is
Pakhet
Lion headed goddess whose attributes are
FEROCITY AND FEMININITY
INNER STRENGTH

101. Pakhet:
A huntress who
wandered the desert
alone at night lookin gfor
prey. She was also
called the The Night
Huntress with sharp
eye and pointed claw.
She is often depicted
killing snakes in her
sharp claws

103. Often Kherty (232)(Aken) would navigate the boat
in the underworld

105. KHNUM
Chief Deity of Elephantine
Responsible for the inundation
of the Nile reaching Egypt at
Elephantine

107. (263)
Meshkenet
Goddess of
Childbirth

108. MESHKENET: GODDESS OF CHILDBIRTH

109. Meskhenet was also present in the Hall of
the Double Ma'at. Standing near the
scales, she assisted in the re-birth of the
soul in the afterlife, as she aided the
birthing of the newborn into this world.

111. Orion (271)

114. (277) King Before An
Ichneumon, ca. 664-332
B.C.E. Bronze

115. Egyptian Mongoose,
Ichneumon

116. Like other mongooses, the
Egyptian Mongoose
will attack and eat venomous
snakes.
They have
at least two different types of
resistance to snake venom.

118. Magical Egypt:
Navigating the
Afterlife
Episode 5 - Part 2

120. National Geographic Channel
Zawi Hawass
Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife 1/3

122. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8PBHI4rns

123. 4th hour: The land of Sokar, who is
upon his sand

125. Sokar
God of the Dead and lord
of the Memphite
necropolis

126. Seti I Before Sokar
from the tomb of
Seti I

128. Sokar

129. At the burial the
officiating priest brought
everything to life with
sacred words and
gestures, this ceremony
was known as "the
opening of the mouth."

130. Sokar and the “opening of the mouth”
ceremony

131. Opening of the
Mouth
Ceremony
breathing life
into the young
King
Tutankhamen

132. Since the Pyramid
Texts, Sokar has
been identified with
Osiris

133. In order to understand the
gods of ancient Egypt,
one must understand
syncretism.

134. Syncretism
the Egyptian practice of linking,
or combining different deities
into the body or identity of a
single entity
…more and more common with
the passage of time.

135. Sokar-Osiris

136. Sokar-Ptah-Osiris

137. Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

138. Ptah-Sokar-
Osiris
Ptolemaic
Period, 332–30
BC

139. Selkis (283) or Serket Hetyt
The scorpion headed goddess

140. Selkis

141. Selkis
She who causes
the throat to
breathe

142. The job of Selkis is to
protect the victim from
the venomous effects of
the scorpion sting.

143. Detail of 4th hour

145. Nehebkau, God who Joined
the Ka to the Body, God of
Protection and Magic

146. Nehebkau

147. Nehebkau and the Udjat eye of Horus

149. Onuris: a Solar God of hunting

150. He is said to have journeyed to Nubia in
order to bring back the ‘Eye of Ra’.

151. Onuris, son of Ra, protector of his solar
deity father

152. Onuris was united with the
god Shu and became the
double god Onuris-Shu.

153. Shu, God of the Sky

154. Ramesses before Onuris-Shu

155. Ramesses before Onuris-Shu

157. Khepri (326), seen as winged sun disc in
this hour

158. Khepri is the
renewed form of the
Sun God

159. Khepri in modern jewelry!

161. Khepri

163. 5th hour

164. Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife 2/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAD5Op9hn1
E

165. 5th hour

167. Magical Egypt: Navigating the Afterlife
- Episode 5 - Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZloBqdWg3I

168. Khepera or
Khepri: the rising sun

171. Khepri, the
sun-god, from
the Tomb of
Tutmosis III
Valley of the
Kings
Luxor Egypt

173. Shu: First Son
of Ra. His
name means
life giving dry
air and
sunlight

174. Tefnut: daughter of
Ra: was
associated with the
morning dew. She
was associated
with types of
moisture

175. In the Coffin Texts, Shu and
Tefnut are not differentiated
from Ra. And the three are
treated as a trinity. . .

176. Ra/Shu/Tefnut are described in the
Coffin Texts as “The one who
developed into three.”

177. Geb, the earth, child of the first sexual
union between male and female

178. Geb and his sister Nut
Note that Geb’s knees are bent up to
represent the mountains of the earth

179. Nut

180. At Ra’s
instruction,
Shu
separates
Geb from Nut

181. Shu separates Geb from Nut

182. Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys

183. Isis Legend Well
She met the Phoenician maidens
at these stairs, shown leading down
to the spring at Byblos today.

184. Horus of the Netherworld

185. Each king was acclaimed as a ‘Living
Horus’ and were shown as Hawks
preying on their enemies
Nephertari
(royal wife
of
Ramesses)
Horus,
and
Ptolemy

187. Heqa Sceptre: symbol with the longest
history meaning “ruler,” representing
the king as the shepherd of his people

188. Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife 3/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ACjOdc_sc

190. 7th Hour of the Amduat

191. <http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2002/egypt/tom
b_vr_1.shtm>

192. 10th hour of the Amduat

193. 12 hour of the Amduat

196. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
UPlITw1YPj0
Old Lady and Mercedes!

197. Egyptian Mathematics and modern
computer mathematics