Egyptian Gods

In Ancient Egypt individual kings worshipped their own gods, as did the workers, priests, merchants and peasants. Pre-dynastic Egypt had formulated the ideas and beliefs of a "greater being", which was expressed in pictures, but some scholars suggest that "writing" was invented in order to communicate spiritual thoughts to the masses. Now the pictures had ideas, and took on human traits. The gods lived, died, hunted, went into battle, gave birth, ate, drank, and had human emotions. The gods reigns overlapped, and, in some instances, merged. Their was no organized hierarchy structure of their reign. The dominance of the gods depended on the beliefs of the reigning king. Names in ancient Egypt were very mystic and powerful. It was thought that if you inscribed your enemies' name on something, then broke it, that enemy would either be afflicted, or possibly die. Most gods had more than one name, here are some of the famous ones:

Ra, Amun, Ptah, Khnum or Aten:   The sun god in it's many forms, the creator of all things.
Osiris:  God of agriculture and ruler of the dead. He was regarded as the dead king that watches over the nether world and the symbol of eternal life.
Isis:  Wife of Osiris, mother of Horus and Mistress of Magic
Horus:  Son of Osiris, a sky god closely connected with the king. 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.
Set:  Enemy of Horus and Osiris, god of storms and disorder.
Maat:  Deity associated with justice and truth.
Hathor:  The goddess of love, dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow.
Anubis:  God of mummification.
Sobek:  The crocodile god, worshipped at Faiyum.
Thoth:  A moon deity and god of writing, counting and wisdom.