Deities Associated Mainly With The Funerary Cult and Underworld
- Am-heh - minor underworld god, "devourer of millions"
- Ammit – crocodile-headed female devourer in Duat, a funerary deity appearing in the Judgement Hall of Osiris.
- Anubis - dog or jackal god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead.
- Aken – boat keeper of the underworld ferry.
- Aker - earth deity.
- Ba-Pef - minor underworld god
- Heka - deification of magic
- The four sons of Horus - personifications of the four canopic jars
- Iabet - goddess, personification of the east.
- Imentet - goddess of the necropolis west of the Nile
- Hu - deification of authoritative utterance, or command.
- Mehen - protective snake god which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night.
- Meretseger – cobra-goddess of tomb builders and protector of royal tombs.
- Nehebkau - 'uniter' or 'provider of ka's', a benign snake deity.
- Nephthys or Nebthet – goddess of death, night, and lamentation; the nursing mother of Horus and the pharaohs.
- Saa or Sia - deification of perception.
- Seker or Sokar - falcon god of the Memphite necropolis
- Shait or Shai - deification of the concept of fate.
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