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  Glossary

  I’ve decided to include a glossary of Egyptian terms and deities that are found within this book. This list, more or less, falls into line with the actual Egyptian mythology and some of them have been twisted slightly in my story. Hope this helps.

  Ammit – The Deification of divine justice. He was the creature who consumed the hearts of the unworthy in the underworld.

  Anubis – One of the gods associated with the underworld in Ancient Egypt. He had the head of a jackal and was responsible, primarily, for coordinating where souls in the underworld went.

  Apep – Apep is the Egyptian deification of darkness and chaos. He is doomed to fight Ra every day. Night was said to fall because he swallowed Ra who cut himself free in the morning. He is also sometimes called Apophis.

  Aziza – A name meaning precious in Egyptian.

  Bast – A cat-headed goddess. She is primarily a war goddess and is said to be married to Anubis.

  Book of Thoth – A book written by Thoth thought to contain the wisdom of the gods.

  Duat – The supernatural realm in which the Egyptian gods dwell.

  Giza – A temple built in around 2,500 BC. It was constructed by the Pharaoh Khufu and is one of the largest pyramids. It is considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

  Hathor – A goddess of healing and medicine who was merged with Sekhmet over time.

  Horus – The falcon-headed god of the sun and pharaohs. He is the son of Isis and Osiris.

  Imhotep – One of the most powerful priests of Ra. He designed the pyramid of Djoser within Saqqara.

  Isis – The goddess of Magic. She is the sister of Set, the wife of Osiris, and the mother of Horus.

  Khufu – A Pharaoh who ruled Egypt in around 2,500 BC. He commissioned the building of Giza, and is considered to be one of the greatest, and most terrible, pharaohs of all time.

  Menhit – One of the original warrior goddesses before Sekhmet and Bast came into popularity. Her name literally means “She who massacres.”

  Mummy – The Egyptian dead went through a process to preserve their corpses called mummification. These became known as mummies.

  Neferkaptah – An Egyptian prince who stole the book of Thoth. He was punished for this and entombed with the book so he could guard it forever.

  Nesert – Egyptian for “the flame.”

  Nile River – A river in Egypt. It is considered the longest river in the world and is almost two miles wide in places.

  Osiris – The ruler of the underworld. The god of the dead and the afterlife. He is the father of Horus.

  Pharaoh – Basically, the Egyptian word for king or ruler.

  Ptah – Ptah is a green-skinned older god who was originally responsible for creation. He is the husband of first Bast and then Sekhmet. He is thought to be the father of Imhotep.

  Ra – The sun god who ruled in Ancient Egypt. He was the leader of the gods until Isis tricked him into giving his power to Horus.

  Saqqara – A vast burial ground in ancient Egypt. This was the primary site of burial for Egyptian royalty before Giza was built.

  Scarab – A type of beetle in Egypt. Believed to be magical by the Egyptians.

  Sekhmet – A lion-headed war goddess. She is said to be an example of the rage of Ra and was often unleashed to destroy his enemies. She is said to be merged with Hathor, who is the goddess of healing and medicine.

  Set – One of the Egyptian gods of chaos. He is neither evil nor good, but somewhere in the middle.

  Setne – A boy who stole the book of Thoth and was driven into madness by the ghost of Neferkaptah.

  Sobek – God of crocodiles, strength, and the Nile River. He had the head of a crocodile. He was feared and worshiped, mostly because people feared crocodiles.

  Sphinx – The Sphinx was a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.

  Thoth – The god of time and wisdom. Considered to be one of the most powerful Egyptian deities. He was said to interfere with Ra and Apep’s battles to ensure neither would win.

  Wepwawet – A wolf god who came to be associated with Anubis. He was a god of hunting.