QUESTIONS.
1. Who was the ‘king of the gods’, a sun god often portrayed with the head of a
ram?
2. Who was the god who personified the chaos which existed before form?
3. Who was the god of the rising sun, often portrayed as a scarab?
4. Who was the cat-headed goddess of sexual pleasure?
5. Who was the sun god, the supreme deity,worshipped as the one true god in
the monotheistic religion introduced by the Pharaoh Akhenaten?
6. Who was the sky goddess, wife of Horus, goddess of dance,music and love?
7. Who was the god of war in Upper Egypt, often portrayed as a man with the
head of a bull or a hawk?
8. Who was the moon god, sometimes portrayed with the head of a falcon?
9. Who was the goddess of order, justice and truth who carried an ostrich feather
against which the hearts of the dead were weighed to judge their purity?
10. Who was the jackal-headed god, son of Osiris, who oversaw the weighing of
hearts?
11. Who was the god of music and dance?
12. Who was the goddess who was the counterpart of Sekhmet in Upper Egypt,
whose sacred bird was the vulture?
13. Who was the crocodile god?
14. Who was the bull god, believed to be the personification of Ptah?
15. Who was the god of the Nile, shown as an overweight man with the breasts of
a woman, symbolising nourishment in abundance?
ANSWERS
1.Ammon (Amun-Re). 2. Nu. 3. Khepre. 4. Batet. 5.Aton. 6. Hathor. 7. Montu. 8.
Khonsu. 9. Maat. 10.Anubis. 11. Bes. 12. Mut. 13. Sebek. 14.Apis. 15. Hapi.
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