NICE!!! Egypt is the beginning....

What happened to us as humans after the end of Pharaohs? Where did all the knowledge go, and where did the ancients come about obtaining this knowledge... of Sound healings.... electricity... the power to move huge objects with their minds...
Hestia is my Goddess.. I never ever had heard of her before. Then one day.. the name just kept entering my mind. I would 'think' it very often for around 2 to 3 weeks before I finally 'Googled' it... and found out that she was '..... not Egyptian!!!!!.... She was Greek.
Hestia is one of the three great goddesses of the first Olympian generation, along with Demeter and Hera. She was described as both the oldest and youngest of the three daughters of Rhea and Cronus, sister to three brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, in that she was the first to be swallowed by Cronus and the last to be disgorged. Originally listed as one of the Twelve Olympians, Hestia gave up her seat in favor of newcomer Dionysus to tend to the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. However, there is no ancient source for this claim. "there is no story of Hestia's ever having taken a husband or ever having been removed from her fixed abode." Every family hearth was her altar. She came to me, I am sure. As I said, I had never heard the name Hestia before.... I LOVE Egyptology... and I am interested to know which goddess might be her counterpart in Egyptian mythology...

The creator of all things was either Re, Amun, Ptah, Khnum or Aten, depending on which version of the myth was currently in use. The heavens were represented by Hathor, Bat, and Horus. Osiris was an earth god as was Ptah. The annual flooding of the Nile was Hapi. Storms, evil and confusion were Seth. His counterpart was Ma'at, who represented balance, justice and truth. The moon was Thoth and Khonsu. Re, the sun god, took on many forms, and transcended most of the borders that contained the other gods. The actual shape of the sun, the disk (or, aten), was deified into another god, Aten.
http://www.touregypt.net/gods1.htm

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/religion/mythology.htm
Amaunet - A female counterpart to Amon and one of the primordial gods of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad (group of eight gods). She was also worshipped at Thebes along with Amon and Mut.



Amon - Usually associated with the wind, or things hidden, and was also of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad. At Thebes he became Amon-Re, king of the gods. He was part of the Theban Triad, along with Mut and Khonsu.



Antaios - He was originally a double god, "the two falcons", that was later joined to create one, probably that of Horus.



Anuket - Worshipped at Elephantine, she was associated with the gazelle.



Apis - Seen as the bull with a solar disk between its horns, Apis was associated with Osiris and Ptah. Aton - Also known as Aten, he was worshipped at Tell 'Amarna.



Atum - A primordial god that was represented in the form of a human and a serpent. He was the supreme god in the Heliopolitan Ennead (group of nine gods) and formed with Re to create Re-Atum.



Hathor - The goddess of love, dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow. At Thebes she was also the goddess of the dead. She was worshipped at Dendera as the consort of Horus and Edfu, and was associated with Isis at Byblos.



Horus - The earliest royal god was the shape of a falcon, with the sun and moon as his eyes. The sky-god was the ruler of the day. The many forms of Horus are; Re-Harakhti, Harsiesis, Haroeris, Harendotes, Khenti-irti, Khentekhtay (the crocodile-god), and Harmakhis, which is Horus on the horizons, in which the Sphinx of Giza is considered to be his aspect.



Isis - The mother of Horus and sister and consort of Osiris was worshipped at Philae. Associated with Astarte, Hathor, Nut and Sothis, she was later worshipped over the entire Roman Empire.



Khnum - Resembling a human with a rams head, he was worshipped in Hypselis, Esna, Antinoe and Elephantine.



Khonsu - the moon god was the son of Amon and Mut. The main temple at Karnak is dedicated to him.



Min - God of fertility coalesced with Amon and Horus. Min was mainly worshipped at Coptos and Akhmim.



Mut - Worshipped at Thebes, she was a consort of Amon and part of the Theban Triad (group of three gods).



Nut - Mother of the sun, moon and heavenly bodies.



Osiris - He is regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and is rejuvenated in his son Horus. As the symbol of eternal life he was worshipped at Abydos and Philae.



Ptah - Worshipped in Memphis, he coalesced with Sokaris and Osiris.



Re - He was the sun god of Heliopolis. From the fifth Dynasty onwards he becomes a national god and is combined with the supreme deity Amon.



Serapis - He was mainly worshipped in Alexandria and was later worshipped by the Greeks as Zeus. He was never fully accepted by the Egyptians in the Ptolemaic period.



Sekhmet - She was part of the Memphite Triad with Ptah and Nefertem. She was the mistress of war and sickness.



Seth - The son of Geb and Nut in the Heliopolitan Ennead was in the form of an animal that has no zoological equivalent. This powerful god was regarded as god of the desert, making him a god of foreign lands.



Shu - He was an ancient cosmic power and was regarded as the god of the air and the bearer of heaven. Sobek - He was a crocodile god and was worshipped at the Faiyum and Ombos. During the middle Kingdom he coalesced with Re, Sobek-Re, and was worshipped as primordial deity and creator-god. Thoth - He was worshipped as a baboon in Hermopolis. He was the god of sacred writings and wisdom.