Papyrus Paintings depicting Egyptian Gods
Egyptian Art Showing Pictures of Ancient Egyptian Gods.
Many of these paintings show figures which have been
copied from original tomb paintings.
These beautiful works of Egyptian art show pictures
of ancient Egyptian gods and are available to purchase
from Egyptian Dreams, a company specialising in supplying
gifts
from Ancient Egypt.
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Painted Papyrus of The Egyptian God Anubis
The god of embalming and cemeteries, Anubis is usually
depicted as a jackal or a man with the head of a jackal.
Since jackals were common scavengers in Egyptian burial
sites, the honouring of Anubis in this guise may have
represented a way of protecting the dead from molestation.
Anubis was an ancient deity to whom prayers for the
survival of the deceased in the Afterlife were addressed
before Osiris rose to prominence as the god of the dead.
Anubis continued to assist in the judgement of the dead
and accompanied the deceased to the throne of Osiris
for the ritual of the Weighing of the Heart.
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Painted Papyrus of The Egyptian God Re-Horakhty
Re-Horakhty is one of the forms of Re, the sun god,
and is identified as a god with a human body and falcon
head who wears a crown in the form of a sun disc surrounded
by a cobra, or a crown made from ram horns and ostrich
feathers.
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Painted Papyrus of The Egyptian God Thoth
Thoth, ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and writing was
the scribe to the gods and also their messenger. The Greeks
identified him with Hermes. He was often represented as
a man with the head of an ibis, or entirely in the form
of this bird, but he could also be depicted as a baboon. |
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Painted Papyrus of The Egyptian God Horus
The son of Osiris and Isis, Horus was a god of the sky
and is usually depicted as a falcon, or a man with a falcon's
head wearing the crown of all Egypt. Horus's name means
'He Who is Above' and is probably linked to his status
as a god of the sky and to the high soaring of the falcon.
He is probably most well-known as the protector of the
ruler of Egypt. After Osiris was murdered by his brother
Seth, Horus fought with Seth for the throne of Egypt.
In this battle, Horus lost one of his eyes. The eye was
restored to him and it became a symbol of protection for
the ancient Egyptians. After this battle, Horus was chosen
to be the ruler of the world of the living. |
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Painted Papyrus of the Egyptian God Osiris
God of the dead and the Afterlife, as well as rebirth
and fertility, Osiris was usually represented in a mummified
anthropomorphc form, often holding a crook and flail,
and with the atef-crown on his head. |
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