Ancient Egyptian Religion Vocab

The ancient Egyptian god of the sun and air, usually depicted as a bearded man wearing a headdress with a double plume.

• Amun-Ra

• Ma'at

• Osiris

A body of people, both men and women, who performed religious functions.

• High Priest

• Clergy

• Wab

The god of magic and medicine in ancient Egypt and also the personification of magic itself.

• Horus

• Ma'at

• Heka

A powerful member of the clergy named by the king/pharaoh to oversee a cult or temple.

• High Priest

• Wab

• Clergy

A sky god in ancient Egyptian mythology often depicted as a hawk or man with the head of a hawk.

• Amun-Ra

• Horus

• Osiris

An ancient Egyptian goddess considered the mother of every pharaoh.

• Ma'at

• Heka

• Isis

The ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, harmony, and balance, who is often depicted with a white ostrich feather.

• Ma'at

• Heka

• Osiris

A preservation process consisting of the drying or embalming the flesh of a deceased body.

• Negative Confessions

• Mummification

• Wedjat

A list of 42 sins which the soul of the deceased can honestly say it has never committed when it stands in judgment in the afterlife.

• Wab

• Osiris

• Negative Confessions

An ancient Egyptian god associated with disorder, foreign lands and people, and the color red.

• Set

• Horus

• Isis