Gallery 04 · Mythology and living ritual
The divine world.
Ancient Egypt had many religious traditions, not one timeless pantheon. Explore recurring figures through their roles, then follow Anubis into the Duat.
Enter the afterlife experience →Choose a deity
Gods, goddesses & stories
Mythic cycle
Osiris, Isis, Horus and Seth
A family drama of succession, violence, restoration and justice told in multiple versions. Isis protects and restores Osiris; Horus seeks kingship; Seth's role becomes complex across time. We will link stories to their periods rather than claim a single unchanging tale.
A place for Anubis
A guardian, not a villain
The funerary journey is not simply a series of monsters or punishments. Protective deities, learned utterances, proper ritual and ethical conduct matter in different text traditions. Anubis is a guide and guardian in that encounter.
Walk toward the Hall of Two Truths ↗Research note
Names are approximate modern scholarly transliterations, and symbol glyphs are illustrative. They are not exact canonical spellings of all deity names. Many gods overlap roles and change attributes over millennia.
Egyptian Ministry: Amun and Opet ↗ · Metropolitan Museum: Osiris ↗ · Met educational guide ↗