Other popular Egyptian Deities
Osiris-Canopus took the form of a Canopic jar with the head of Osiris. Symbolically, the jars carried water from the Nile, Egypt's source of fertility through Osiris.
The Sphinx, dating back to the Old Kingdom, was a human-headed lion closely associated with the sun god Sekhmet.
Hathor, the cow goddess, was protectress of the necropolis and consoler of the dead.
Bes, a grotesque dwarf, was an immensely popular domestic deity whose ugliness deflected evil. As a birth deity, Bes kept snakes away from newborn infants.
