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Lower Egypt and formed the unified kingdom of Egypt.
See also: Hor-pa-kraat, Horus the Elder, Isis, Osiris, Set.
Horus the Elder (Her-ur, Aroueris)
Horus, the patron god of Upper Egypt from time immemorial; distinguished from
Horus the Child (Hor-pa-kraat), who was the son of Isis and Osiris; but the two gods
merged early in Egyptian history and became the one Horus, uniting the attributes of
both.
See also: Hor-pa-kraat, Horus.
Isis (Auset)
Perhaps the most important goddess of all Egyptian mythology, Isis assumed, during
the course of Egyptian history, the attributes and functions of virtually every other
important goddess in the land. Her most important functions, however, were those of
motherhood, marital devotion, healing the sick, and the working of magical spells
and charms. She was believed to be the most powerful magician in the universe,
owing to the fact that she had learned the Secret Name of Ra from the god himself.
She was the sister and wife of Osiris, sister of Set, and twin sister of Nephthys. She
was the mother of Horus the Child (Hor-pa-kraat), and was the protective goddess of
Horus's son Amset, protector of the liver of the deceased.
Isis was responsible for protecting Horus from Set during his infancy; for helping
Osiris to return to life; and for assisting her husband to rule in the land of the Dead.
Her cult seems to have originally centered, like her husband's, at Abydos near the
Delta in the North (Lower Egypt); she was adopted into the family of Ra early in
Egyptian history by the priests of Heliopolis, but from the New Kingdom onwards (c.
1500 BC) her worship no longer had any particular identifiable center, and she
became more or less universally worshipped, as her husband was.
See also: Amset, Hor-pa-kraat, Horus, Nephthys, Osiris, Ra, Set.
Khephra (Keper)
The creator-god, according to early Heliopolitan cosmology; considered a form of Ra.
The Egyptian root "kheper" signifies several things, according to context, most