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THE GRECO-EGYPTIAN PANTHEON
This is a tentative listing of the gods worshipped in Greco-Roman Egypt. However it cannot be considered a complete listing since archaeologists and historians are constantly discovering new information that adds to our understanding of the religious world of this time period, and consequently it will be in a state of continuous revision. This is a uniquely Greco-Egyptian pantheon, meaning that we have tried to limit the gods to those that were popular during the time period from the conquest of Alexander up to the closing of the Egyptian temples by Justinian and Theodosios. As such, many important Greek and Egyptian gods aren't on this list. That does not mean that members of Neos Alexandria cannot - or do not - worship them on their own, simply that we are trying to be as accurate as possible in the reconstruction of ancient Greco-Egyptian religion and this site is representative of that. Although some of our members accept the equation of Greek and Egyptian divinities, we have listed each of the gods separately here and have chosen instead to discuss their syncreticism at the relevant point in each god's section. We have also adopted the approach of giving the popular Greco-Roman form of an Egyptian god's name first and provided an approximate transliteration from the Egyptian in parenthesis. Further epithets and alternate names will be given under each god's section. |