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Osiris
Role: God of the afterlife, death, life, and resurrection. Attributes: Depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown with two large ostrich feathers at each side.
Isis
Role: Goddess of magic, marriage, healing, and protection. Attributes: Often shown with a throne-shaped or sun disk and horns on her head, sometimes winged.
Ra
Role: God of the Sun and creation. Attributes: Depicted as a falcon-headed man with a sun disc above his head, often wrapped like a pharaoh.
Horus
Role: God of the sky, kingship, and war. Attributes: Depicted as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon, often wearing a pschent (double crown of Egypt).
Ptah
Role: God of craftsmen, architects, and creation. Attributes: Depicted as a mummified man, often with a staff that bears emblems of life, stability, and power.
Bastet
Role: Goddess of home, fertility, and childbirth. Attributes: Depicted as a lioness or as a woman with the head of a lioness or domestic cat, often holding a sistrum (musical instrument).
Seth
Role: God of chaos, violence, deserts, and storms. Attributes: Depicted with an animal head with a curved snout, long ears, and an erect, square-tipped tail.
Hathor
Role: Goddess of love, beauty, music, dancing, fertility, and pleasure. Attributes: Depicted as a woman with cow horns with a sun disk nestled between them.
Geb
Role: God of the Earth. Attributes: Depicted as a man lying beneath the arch of Nut, sometimes with green skin symbolizing vegetation and a goose emblem on his head.
Thoth
Role: God of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon. Attributes: Depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, often holding writing tools.
Amun
Role: God of the air, sun, and the sky. Attributes: Depicted as a man wearing a double-plumed headdress, sometimes sitting on a throne.
Nut
Role: Goddess of the sky and heavens. Attributes: Often shown as a woman arching over the earth, her body depicted with stars.
Sobek
Role: God of the Nile, water, and fertility. Attributes: Depicted as a man with the head of a crocodile, often wearing a headdress with feathers and a sun disk.
Anubis
Role: God of mummification and the afterlife. Attributes: Depicted as a man with the head of a jackal holding an ankh.
Nephthys
Role: Goddess of mourning, service, protection, and the night. Attributes: Shown with hieroglyphic signs on her head, sometimes a basket and a house, indicating her name's significance.
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