Information cards
Anubis • Head of a jackal on a man’s body. • Guardian and protector of the dead. • God of the underworld. • God of embalming and the dead.
Tefnut • Goddess of moisture. • Woman with the head of a lioness. • Mother of the sky and the Earth.
Pharaohs Copyright © 2017 Cornerstones Education Limited Ma’at • Woman with a feather on her head. • Goddess of truth, justice and harmony. • Symbolised the balance of life on Earth.
Horus • A man with the head of a hawk. • God of the sky. • He was known as ‘The One Far Above’. • Protector of the pharaoh.
Copyright © 2017 Cornerstones Education Limited Hathor • Woman with a headdress featuring a sun disc and cow horns. • Goddess of love and joy. • Connected with foreign places and materials.
Thoth • God of wisdom, writing and knowledge. • A man with the head of an ibis. • Holds a writing tablet.
Copyright © 2017 Cornerstones Education Limited Ra • God of the Sun. • The most important Egyptian god. • Reborn every morning. • A man with the head of a hawk and a sun disc headdress.
Seth • God of the desert, storms and chaos. • His symbol was the sceptre. • Symbolised everything that threatened peace in Egypt.
Copyright © 2017 Cornerstones Education Limited Amun • King of the gods. • A man with two ostrich feathers as a hat. • Honoured by a large temple at Thebes.
Find out as much as you can about one or two Egyptian gods and goddesses.
Draw your favourite and create an information sheet about them.
Find out how the Egyptian people worshipped their gods and goddesses.
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