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20 Cards in this Set
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The king of the gods (pictured as a man with a ram head, a ram or a man wearing an ostrich plumed hat)
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Amen-ra of Amun-re
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god of embalming (pictured as a man with a jackal head or a jackal)
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Anubis
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the sun disk (pictured as a sun disk with rays that end in hands). During the reign of Akhenaten, this god was made the king of the gods.
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Aten
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the 'all' or 'perfection' (man with the double crown, believed to be the first god to exist on earth). The ancient Egyptians believed that this god rose from the waters of chaos (Nun) and created all the gods.
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Atum
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protective goddess (pictured as a woman with the head of a cat)
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Bastet
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protector of pregnant women, newborn babies, and the family (pictured as a dwarf with lion and human features or as a dwarf wearing a lion's skin)
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Bes
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god of the earth (pictured as a man lying below the arch of the sky goddess Nut)
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Geb
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god of the Nile river, also called the god of the inundation (pictured as a man with a pot belly, shown with water plants on his head)
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Hapi or Hapy
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goddess of music and dance, a protective goddess, the goddess of love and joy (pictured as a woman with the ears of a cow, a woman with a headdress of horns and a nun disk, or a cow)
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Hathor
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a god of the sky, also known as the protector of the ruler of Egypt (pictured as a man with the head of a hawk, or as a hawk). Egyptians believed the Pharaoh was the living representation of this god
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Horus
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Queen of the gods, a protective goddess who used powerful magic spells to help people in need (pictured as a woman with a headdress in the shape of a throne, or a pair of cow horns with a sun disk). She was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus
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Isis
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goddess of truth, justice and harmony. She was associated with the balance of things on earth (pictured as a woman with a feather on her head, or as a feather)
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Ma'at
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lady of the wings, protective goddess of the dead (pictured as a woman with a headdress showing her name in hieroglyphs)
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Nephtys
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goddess of the firmament, the sky-goddess, whose body created a vault or canopy over the earth (pictured as a woman whose body arches across the sky, wearing a dress decorated with stars
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Nut
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lord of the dead, ruler of the underworld (pictured as a mummified blue man wearing a white cone-like headdress with feathers)
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Osiris
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the creator, also known as the god of craftsmen (pictured as a blue man wrapped in a tight white cloak carrying a staff). In one myth, he spoke the words and the world came into being.
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Ptah
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the sun god (also known as Khepera in the dawning, and Tum, when the shadows of evening fall over the earth. The ancient Egyptians believed that he was swallowed every night by the sky-goddess, and was reborn every morning (pictured as a man with a hawk head and a headdress with a sun disk)
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Re or Ra
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the powerful one, the goddess of war (pictured as a woman with the head of a lioness)
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Sekhmet
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god of evil, chaos (pictured as a man with an unidentifiable head of an animal)
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Seth or Set
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god of wisdom, writing and knowledge (pictured as a man with the head of an ibis holding a writing palette, or as an ibis or as a baboon). The ancient Egyptians believed that he gave them the gift of hieroglyphic writing.
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Thoth
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