Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture

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Ancient Egyptian deities that have appeared in popular culture include Set, Thoth, Khonsu, Ra and Horus.

General or collective references[]

• The Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan references many deities, including Horus, Isis, Set, Apophis, Ra, and many more.^[1]
• The Stargate SG-1 television series created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner features a parasitic serpentine alien species known as the Goa'uld and dozens of them took the names of Ancient Egyptian deities to be worshipped by human slaves after taking a human host.^[2]

Amunet[]

• In the TV series Penny Dreadful, the character of Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) is implied to be an incarnation of Amunet.
• In the TV series Stargate SG-1, Amaunet (Vaitiare Bandera) is a recurring Goa'uld (a parasitic alien who rules part of the galaxy using a human host and claiming to be a god) character and consort of Apophis.
• Amunet (portrayed by Sofia Boutella) appears as a fictionalized characterization in the titular role for the 2017 version of The Mummy.^[3][4] The film serves as the first installment in the Dark Universe.
• In the videogame Assassin's Creed Origins the character Aya later changes her name to Amunet, "the hidden one".^[5][6] A statue of Amunet, identifying her as the assassin of Cleopatra, appeared in the earlier video game Assassin's Creed II.^[7][8][9]

Anhur[]

• The computer game NetHack, which features deities whose favor the player must win in order to succeed, features Anhur as the god of chaotic wizards, in keeping with his role as a god of war.
• Anhur is featured in the 2014 Hi-Rez Studios game Smite as one of the playable gods.^[10]

Anubis[]

• In Luna Sea's third album Eden, the song "Anubis" is about a man who falls in love with the god Anubis.
• In the 2004 English-language French film Immortal, Bastet and Anubis appear as the controllers of a pyramid that appears over New York City in the year 2095. The film is based upon director Enki Bilal's own 1980s The Nikopol Trilogy graphic novel series.
• In Stargate SG-1, Anubis is a Goa'uld and the most ruthless of his species. Unlike most of his race, Anubis has some limited claim to being an actual god, as he once "ascended" to a higher plane of existence and gained great power and knowledge as a result.
• In Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, a television series that ran on ABC from 3 March to 15 July 2004, Antubis is the companion of the ghost of Mary Jensen. Near the end of the season, he reveals his true name is Anubis, but accepts Mary's mispronunciation of the name without issue.
• In the 2005 television series Power Rangers: SPD, the mentor and extra ranger, Anubis Cruger (also known as Doggie), is named after the Egyptian god.
• In the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fury, the Beyblade Mercury Anubius (or Anubis in the Japanese dub) is based on the Egyptian God, and is owned by Yuki Mizusawa, one of the main protagonists of Metal Fury.
• Anubis is the villain of the 2014 film The Pyramid, which depicts him as being trapped in an underground pyramid due to the horrors he committed in an attempt to reunite with his father.
• Anubis is a featured character and a romance option in the otome game Kamigami no Asobi, where he is portrayed as a crafty but shy, young, dark skinned man with the ears of a jackal and black "stains" (from the sins of those he has helped pass on) on his arms and legs.
• Anubis, voiced and motion-captured by Goran D. Kleut, is featured in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt as a guide for recently deceased souls entering the afterlife.
• Anubis is a playable character in the MOBA Smite, which features mythological entities from different cultures fighting alongside or against one another.^[11]
• The MOBA League of Legends champion named Nasus resembles Anubis.
• Anubis appears as a playable character in three fighting games: War Gods by Midway Studios, Pray For Death by Lightshock Software, and Fight of Gods.
• Anubis is featured in the Titan Books series Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, where he initially appears as an enemy of the Tenth Doctor, but later becomes his companion.
• Anubis makes appearance in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pyramid of Light as the main antagonist.
• The Digimon Anubismon is based on Anubis. He plays the role of judging the dead one as either to be reborn as a digiegg or sent to the dark area.
• Anubis appears in several episodes of Gargoyles.
• Anubis appears in an episode of The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, where he is summoned as a counter to the cat-summoned Bastet only to become enamored with her.
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Anubis is represented as a Stand (a superpowered manifestation of a person or animal's fighting spirit) bound to a sword that possesses whoever wields it.
• In the Megami Tensei series, Anubis frequently appears as a member of the Avatar race of demons. He first appears in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
  • In Persona 5, Anubis is an enemy that can be fought in the fourth palace level.
• Anubis is the first boss of the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events in Assassin's Creed Origins.^[12][13]
• Anubis appears as Mr. Jacquel in the 2001 novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, then subsequently depicted in the television series adaptation.
• In The Mummy Returns, the movie's plot centers on a deal made between Anubis and the Scorpion King.
• In the 2015 animated television series Egyxos, Anubis (shortened to Anubi) is a shape-shifting servant of Exaton.
• Anubis is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug, giving him the ability to fire eye beams that turn people into mummies, a necessity for his plan to resurrect Nefertiti.
• A boss based on Anubis named Anubis Necromancess appears in Mega Man Zero and Mega Man Zero 3.
• In Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, the Tomb Raiser Zombie from Ancient Egypt takes design inspiration from Anubis; its namesake is simultaneously a reference to Tomb Raider. There is an achievement dedicated to it, called "A-noob-is".
• In Monster High, the servants of Cleo de Nile and Nefera de Nile resemble Anubis.
• In the Kane Chronicles, Anubis appears as a helper and eventual love interests of Sadie Kane.
• Anubis appears in the 2008 PC game
• In the 2002 Ensemble Studios real-time strategy game Age of Mythology, Anubis is one of nine minor gods that can be worshipped by Egyptian players.^[14][15]

Apep / Apophis[]

• Apophis appears in the novel trilogy The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan. He is the main antagonist in the series and is destroyed in the final book The Serpent's Shadow by protagonists Carter and Sadie Kane.
• Apophis is a gigantic, snake-like dæmon and bringer of chaos depicted in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. Every night, he is slain by Ra. Set releases him, intending to let chaos remake the world and claim dominion over the afterlife, but after Ra is rescued by Horus, Ra again slays Apophis.
• Apophis appears as an unplayable monster in the video game SMITE.
• Apophis is a Goa'uld System Lord in the television series Stargate SG-1, serving as the original and longest-running antagonist of the show. He is described as a rival of Ra while the Supreme System Lord still lives. Apep is described as a separate System Lord and the founder of the Goa'uld civilization in the Stargate SG-1 roleplaying game.
• Apep appears in the third season of The Librarians.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Apophis features in a Continuous Trap card called "Embodiment of Apophis".
• Apep appears as a boss fight during a hallucination while investigating the cause of miscarriages of the wife of the head priest of Memphis in the game Assassin's Creed Origins. During this fight the player character, Bayek, must fight him while staying aboard Ra's solar barque.
• Apep is the Guardian of the Gates to the Land of the Living in the Netherworld and a boss in The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, voiced by Mark Hamill.^[17]
• Apep appears in Mummies Alive!, and is portrayed as an anthropomorphic cobra-like creature who can change his appearance into a young human man.
• Apep appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series.
• Apophis appears in John Langan's novel The Fisherman.
• Apophis appears as a demon with the appearance of a worm in the television series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
• Apep appears in the sixth episode in Tutenstein, "The Boat of Millions of Years". Like other depictions, he is a snake-like entity constantly in conflict with Ra.
• Apep, known as "Apep the Snaky One", appears in Wizard101 as an integral character and later boss in the optional Zigazag dungeon questline in Krokotopia (a world based heavily on Ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptomania). He is an eternal servant to Ammit.
• Apophis appears in Saint Seiya Episode.G Chapter Zero: Aiolos Hen.
• Extreme metal band Nile has two songs about Apep: "Laying Fire Upon Apep" (on Ithyphallic) and "Negating the Abominable Coils of Apep" (on What Should Not Be Unearthed).

Astarte / Ashtoreth[]

• Astarte is said to have been hallucinated by Jack Donaghy in the season 4 episode 9 episode of 30 Rock after he ingested tainted thousand year old wine.
• Astarte is played by Natalie Becker in the film The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.
• Astarte is played by Yaya Deng in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt.
• Astarte appears as a goddess in the 2014 video game Divinity: Original Sin.
• Astarte is the boss of one level in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
• Astarte appears in the Megami Tensei series. Astarte first appeared in Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku. However, she is most well known for her appearances in the Persona series.
  • In Persona 5, Astarte is Haru Okumura's Ultimate Persona.
• Astarte/Ishtar appears in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Brief Lives. In this story, she is a former lover of Destruction.
• Ashtoreth appears in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens as the name of the nanny of the American Cultural Attaché's child, believed to be the Antichrist.
• Astarte is the title of a 1931 novel by Karin Boye.
• Astoreth appears as one of the named fallen angels in book 1 of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
• The Astartes in the Warhammer 40K universe derive their name from Astarte.

Atum[]

• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Atum is represented by the Stand of antagonist Telence D'Arby. Atum is the last Stand related to Egyptian deities fought in the story.

Bastet[]

• Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God is a 1957 novel centered on a cat that awakens from anesthesia believing she is Bastet. The novel was adapted as the 1965 Disney film, The Three Lives of Thomasina.
• Bastet lives in the "Little Egypt" area of southern Illinois, alongside Thoth and Anubis, in the 2001 novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Typically in the form of an otherwise ordinary brown housecat, she takes a liking to Shadow Moon and takes human form to seduce him.
• Bastet, under the name of Bast, is one of the five gods available to worship in the city-builder game Pharaoh.
• In Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, Bast is a character that occurs throughout the series.
• Bast has also appeared in issues of Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl, wherein she is one of the chief goddesses worshiped by the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall.
• In Stargate SG-1, Bastet is a Goa'uld. She is one of the "System Lords" who rule the galaxy, mentioned to have vanquished Sobek with the assistance of Kali, and to be a rival of Ba'al.
• The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Bastet as one of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set.
• In the 2004 film Immortal, Bastet and Anubis appear as the controllers of a pyramid that appears over New York City in the year 2095.
• Bastet is a playable god in Smite.
• The directory authority for the Tor anonymity network is named after the goddess.^[18]
• In Mummies Alive! Bastet provides the powers of the character Nefer-Tina and appears in one episode as an antagonist.
• In an episode of The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, Bastet is summoned by a villainous group of cats in their bid for world domination.
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Bastet (named Bast) is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Mariah.
• In the film version of Marvel's Black Panther, while not seen directly as a character, aside from a brief silent cameo in the exposition, Bast is called on during the ceremonies of connecting a person with the main healing/empowering 'heart-shaped herb'. In the comics of the same name, she has a stronger presence, acting as a psychopomp.^[19]
• Bastet appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. She first appeared in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
• In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans", of Hercules, Hercules's friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.^[20]
• Bastest appears in the 9th episode of the second season of Tutenstein, "Cleo's Catastrophe".
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Bastet is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis.^[21][22]
• In the manga Hyper Police, Bast is the mother of the series protagonist, Natsuki Sasahara.
• In The Kingkiller Chronicle, Bast is Kvothe's assistant, student, and friend and lives with him at the Waystone Inn.
• A mummy resembling Bastet is the main antagonist in the fifth episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, "Ollie Ollie In-Come Free!", in which she is referred to as "Bast".
• In the fantasy novel series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Irish author Michael Scott, Bastet is part of a race of immortal beings who predated humanity and who were also worshipped as gods, known as Elders. She serves as an antagonist throughout parts of the series.
• Bastet appears as a supporting character in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles series.
• The curse of Baste is placed on C.J. Cregg when she broke a cat statue in The West Wing's episode #39 The Stackhouse Filibuster.
• In episode 2.15 of Early Edition, it is hinted that the mysterious housecat delivering Gary's journal could be Bastet in disguise or her descendant.

Bes[]

• Bes appears, as part of the delegation of Egyptian gods, in The Sandman: Season of Mists, by Neil Gaiman.
• Bes is a friend and helper to the heroes in Pyramid Scheme by Eric Flint and Dave Freer.
• Bes appears in the video game Realm of the Mad God as a boss of an Egyptian themed dungeon known as the "Tomb of the Ancients", alongside Nut and Geb.
• Bes makes an appearance in the eight episode of the first season of Tutenstein, "There's Something About Natasha". He helps the title character in his crush on a girl named Natasha, giving him a love spell to make her fall in love with him.
• Bes appears in Rick Riordan's book series The Kane Chronicles as a supporting character and is one of the gods who fights Apophis in the last book of the series.
• In Mummies Alive!, Bes was portrayed as a trickster, similar to Mr. Mxyzptlk.

Geb[]

• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Geb is represented by the Stand of the antagonist N'Doul. Despite Geb being an earth deity, the Stand Geb is a sentient mass of water.
• Geb is a playable God in Smite.
• Geb makes an appearance in the children's show Tutenstein, in the episode "The Unsafety Zone", both mentioned as named in an artifact called the Crown of Geb, and as the deity himself who, like in the myth, laughs to generate a landslide to stop some robbers.
• In Mummies Alive!, Geb is portrayed as a huge rock giant that makes earthquakes when he walks, attacks anybody who disturbs him, and is married to Net.

Hathor[]

• Hathor, played by Élodie Yung, is the goddess of love in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. She is depicted in particular as being in love with Horus.
• In the TV series Stargate SG-1, Hathor is played by Suanne Braun, the mate of Ra and the mother of Heru'ur (Horus).
• In Capcom's Street Fighter video game series, Hathor uses another form name, Menat. With a slightly different hieroglyphic spelling, it referred to an ancient Egyptian artifact which was closely connected with the goddess Hathor.
• Hathor appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series.
• Hathor appears in the fifth episode of the children's animated series Tutenstein, where when she hears the complaints of the title character (a mummified, immature young pharaoh brought back to life in modern day America), she sees the actions of some construction workers (not building a pyramid and leaving Tutenstein trapped in concrete) as a direct act of blasphemy against the gods, and turns into Sekhmet, going on a rampage.
• Hathor serves as the name of the home planet of the Splixson in the Ben 10 series.
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Hathor is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis.^[23][24]

Heqet[]

• One of the bosses in Mega Man Zero 2, Burble Hekelot, is named after the fertility goddess, even bearing a design based on the animal closely associated with her, the frog.

Horus[]

• In Stargate SG-1, Horus appears as Heru-ur. As in some obscure real-world myths, Heru-ur in the series is the son of Ra and Hathor. Like most of the "gods" who appeared in the series, Heru-ur is a Goa'uld.
• The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Horus as the leader of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set.
• In the 2004 film Immortal, Horus has been stripped of his immortality for reasons not explained in the film.
• The 2016 film Gods of Egypt follows the story of Horus's battle to reclaim his throne from his power-hungry uncle, Set.
• In the anime series Beyblade: Metal Masters, the Beyblade Vulcan Horuseus is based on Horus, and is owned by Nile, whose name could possibly be derived from the Nile River.
• In the Games Workshop tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000 and related media, Horus Lupercal is the main antagonist of the Horus Heresy. The story contains many elements of Egyptian mythology, including a version of the Eye of Horus and the pivotal confrontation between Horus and the protagonist, the Emperor, similar to Horus's confrontation with Set.
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Horus is represented by the stand of the antagonist Pet Shop, an intelligent falcon, referencing Horus' falcon head.
• Horus is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug, giving him the power of flight.
• Horus appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. He first appeared in Shin Megami Tensei II.
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Horus is a minor god who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and (somewhat incongruously) Set.^[25][26]
• In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, an army of Horus warriors is summoned by Kahmunrah.
• In the video game Smite, Horus and Set were made into playable characters in April 2019, with the former having the title of "The Rightful Heir".^[27]
• Horus features towards the end of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.

Isis[]

• ”The Secrets of Isis” was a children’s television show that ran for two seasons on CBS starting in 1975. Joanna Cameron played schoolteacher Andrea Thomas who finds an ancient relic necklace during an archaeological dig that allows her to transform into the Egyptian deity Isis and summon supernatural powers in order to fight crime.
• Portrayed as a blonde woman, Isis is one of ten pagan gods that met at the Elysian Fields Hotel to try to figure out a way to prevent the Christian apocalypse in "Hammer of the Gods", season 5, episode 19 of the U.S. television series Supernatural (22 April 2010).
• Played by Rachael Blake, Isis is the wife of Osiris in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt.
• Isis is a playable goddess in Smite.^[28]
• Isis appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. She first appears in Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis.
• Isis has a small role in romance author Nina Bangs's book series "Castle of Dark Dreams" as the ex-lover of Holgarth and the mother of his son.
• In the 2002 Ensemble Studios game Age of Mythology, Isis is one of three major gods that can be worshipped by Egyptian players.^[29][30]

Khnum[]

• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Khnum is represented by the stand of the antagonist Oingo. Much in how Khnum is known as the Divine Potter, the Stand Khnum gives Oingo the ability to mold his flesh like clay.
• In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans", of Hercules, Hercules' friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.^[31]

Khonsu[]

• The Marvel Comics character Moon Knight gained his powers after being resurrected by Khonsu (in the comics known as Khonshu).
• In an episode of the TV series Stargate SG-1, Khonsu is a Tok'ra who poses as one of the Goa'uld, a race of parasitic aliens who set themselves up as the gods of human mythology and have ruled the galaxy for thousands of years. At the time he appears, Khonsu is a minor lord sworn to Anubis.
• In Worm by Wildbow,^{[citation needed]} Khonsu is the name of an Endbringer who has special powers related to time.
• Khonsu appears as a Genma demon in the Megami Tensei series. His main appearance is as a random encounter in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner.
• Khonsu plays a major role in the novel The Claws of Time by Jason Charles.

Medjed[]

• In the illustration to the spell on sheet 76 of the Greenfield papyrus, what is thought to be Medjed^[32] is depicted as a figure covered entirely in a conical covering except for the eyes and feet, which are visible. After the papyrus was exhibited in 2012 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Fukuoka Museum of Art, Medjed became a sensation on Japanese social media. The god was embraced by Japanese popular culture, including as an internet meme and as a character in video games.^[33][34][35]
  • In Persona 5, Futaba's hacker group is named Medjed, likely as a reference to the trend.
  • Nitocris' summer outfit in Fate/Grand Order is designed after that depiction of Medjed.
  • Medjed bears a visual resemblance to the crewmates in Among Us, and received some minor attention as an Internet meme to that effect.

Nephthys[]

• Nephthys is the wife of Set in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, played by Emma Booth.
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Nephthys is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Set and Isis.^[36][37]

Osiris[]

• Osiris one of the five gods in the Pharaoh (video game)
• Played by Faran Tahir, Osiris is the principal villain in "Defending Your Life", season 7, episode 4 of the U.S. television series Supernatural (14 October 2011). He is the Egyptian god of the dead, and he puts people who feel guilty on trial.
• Osiris is played by Bryan Brown in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. He is the King of Egypt and a just god. As he is about to crown his son Horus as his successor, his brother Set murders him and takes the crown for himself.
• Osiris is a playable god in Smite. He is labeled "The Broken God of the Afterlife" in reference to how Set chopped him into pieces.^[38]
• An alien guest character in The Sims Freeplay for mobile devices is named Osiris.
• In Stargate SG-1, Osiris is a Goa'uld. Like many other Goa'uld, Osiris is several thousand years old, though this is due in Osiris' case to being forcibly removed from its former host in Ancient Egypt and put in a stasis chamber. Though Osiris is normally portrayed as male in mythology, Goa'uld themselves are genderless, and only reproduce by having queens spawn, and the human host, Sarah Gardner, played by Anna-Louise Plowman, is female. She is an antagonist in the series, and is subservient to another Goa'uld, Anubis.
• The exoplanet HD 209458 b is sometimes given the nickname Osiris.^[39]
• The reserve boat for Oxford University Women's Boat Club (OUWBC) is named Osiris.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Osiris is an Egyptian God Card known as "Saint Dragon Osiris". In the English dub, he is known as "Slifer The Sky Dragon".
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Osiris is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Daniel J. D'Arby. Much in how the real Osiris is the god of the underworld, the Stand Osiris allows D'Arby to steal the souls of others if they admit defeat.
• Osiris is a member of the Deity race of demons in the Megami Tensei series. He first appeared in Ronde for the Sega Saturn.
• Osiris appears in La-Mulana 2.
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Osiris is a minor god who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis. Osiris is notably the only Egyptian god who appears in game, as the player is tasked with reuniting his body parts so he can oppose Set's mortal followers (who are working with Poseidon's agents to free the Titans).^[40]
• In the episode of New Tricks entitled 'Old Dogs', the team investigate a series of dog murders dating back to the 1970s. One of the victims, who belonged to an Egyptologist, was named Osiris.
• In the popular shooting game Destiny (video game) and its sequel, Destiny 2, the legendary Warlock and former Vanguard Commander who was exiled for his obsession with the alien robot race, the Vex, is named Osiris. His armor features a bird-headed helmet and feathers on his shoulders and upper back, similar to the common portrayal of the god Osiris with a falcon head.^[41]
• Osiris is mentioned several times in Ubisoft's 2017 entry into the Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed: Origins, by the game's primary protagonist, Bayek of Siwa. A constellation bearing Osiris' name can also be viewed within the game.^[42]
• Osiris is used by the progressive deathcore band Born of Osiris.

Ptah[]

• The computer game NetHack, which features deities whose favor the player must win in order to succeed, features Anhur as the god of lawful wizards, in keeping with his role as a creator and architect.
• Ptah is one of the five gods in Pharaoh (video game)
• In the 2002 Ensemble Studios game Age of Mythology, Ptah is one of 9 minor gods that can be worshipped by Egyptian players.^[43][44]

Ra[]

• In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones must use the headpiece of the Staff of Ra to find the location of the Ark of the Covenant, which is hidden in Tanis.^[45]
• Harvey Birdman, the titular character in the Hanna-Barbera animated series Birdman and the Galaxy Trio and, later, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, is a winged superhero who was said to have gained abilities of flight and solar projection from the sun god Ra.
• In 2015, SolarCity began a new marketing campaign featuring Ra "at home" as a servant of the homeowner, inviting customers to "harness the power of the Sun and save".
• Ra is the main villain of the 1994 film Stargate. In it, he is an alien that enslaves ancient Egyptians and brings them to a planet on the other side of the known universe using a device known as a Stargate. In the TV series that followed, Ra was retroactively established as the most powerful of the Goa'uld, a race of parasitic aliens that set themselves up as gods of human mythology and used humanity as a host and slave race across the galaxy.
• In channeled messages of the New Age community, Ra is presented as an extraterrestrial entity presenting a central message of "only one important statement ... All things, all of life, all of the creation is part of one original thought."^[46][47]
• In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans", of Hercules, Hercules's friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves, and try to destroy Hercules and Icarus. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.^[48]
• Ra is a playable god in Smite.^[49]
• In season four of the Syfy reality television series Face Off, the contestant Eric F. created a Ra mummy based on the Evil Dead franchise.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Ra is an Egyptian God card called "The Winged Dragon of Ra" or "Sun Dragon Ra".
• The Dagger of Amon Ra, the second game in the Laura Bow series of graphic adventures, features a Ra cult as a plot element.
• The House of Anubis special is titled "Touchstone of Ra".
• In the video game Age of Mythology and its remake, Age of Empires: Mythologies, Ra is one of three major gods that can be worshiped by Egyptian players.^[50][51]
• Ra appears in the video game Pharaoh as one of the five gods a player can choose to worship.
• Ra: The God of The Sun is a marching band show composed by Rob Stein with Ra as the central theme.
• In Savage Dragon, the character PowerHouse is a descendant of Ra.
• Ra, played by Geoffrey Rush, is depicted in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt as a creator god who drags the sun across the sky daily and slays the dæmon Apophis nightly. He is the father of Osiris and Set.
• Ra (mostly referred to as Amon-Ra) appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei. He first appeared in Shin Megami Tensei If....
• In La-Mulana 2, Ra is one of the Amarna tribe of 5th Children and also known as the Dark Star Lord. He merges with Horus, becoming Ra-Horakhty, and later the solar-powered weapon Aten, becoming the Guardian .
• Ra appears both as a spell for members of the Balance school and a boss in Wizard101.
• Ra appears in the sixth episode of the first season of Tutenstein, "The Boat of A Million Years". Much like in the myth, he controls the boat that makes the sun rise and fall, but it also controls the flow of time.
• In Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Ra is featured as a "Perk Altar" in the Zombies gamemode.^[52]

Sekhmet[]

• Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album Ithyphallic, and in "The Eye Of Ra" on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.
• Death metal band Behemoth referenced Sekhmet in the song "Christgrinding Avenue" on their album The Apostasy.
• Sekhmet is one of the evil female trinity of demigod vampires in author Kevin Given's Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis, the first novel in the Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter series, the other two being the Hebrew Lilith and the Hindu Kali, and in its comic book adaptation, Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter issues 1–6.
• Sekhmet is used in The 39 Clues book Beyond the Grave and is the reason why the characters travel to Cairo.
• Sekhmet is featured in The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan as a minor antagonist.
• Sekhmet is the subject of "Lionheart", a song about the goddess by the symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn from their album The Clouds of Northland Thunder.
• Sekhmet is the focus of "Resurrection", an episode of Stargate SG-1. Like most named Egyptian gods in the series, she is a Goa'uld. A (possibly different) Sekhmet is also featured in the Stargate SG-1 game Stargate SG-1 Unleashed.
• In Tutenstein, an animated TV series about ancient Egypt and its mythology, Sekhmet, and by technicality Hathor, is featured in the fifth episode, "The Powerful One".
• Sekhmet is the name of an alien Aragami in the PlayStation Portable game God Eater.
• In the video game Skullgirls, Sekhmet is the name of the bloodthirsty cat-like skeleton parasite bonded to the Egypt-themed character Eliza.
• Sekhmet is the main character in S. K. Whiteside's World of the Guardians^[53] book series. Set in modern-day New Orleans, Sekhmet goes by the name of Syn.
• Sekhmet appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama, "The Bride of Peladon". She is an Osiran.
• Sekhmet is the subject of Margaret Atwood's poem titled "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War".
• In the comic The Wicked + The Divine, Sekhmet (spelled Sakhmet) is one of twelve gods who reincarnate every 90 years only to die within two years. In the current incarnation, she is a pop star modelled on Rihanna.
• Sekhmet appears in the comic Beasts of Burden: The Unfamiliar after being summoned by a gathering of witches and familiars.
• Sekhmet appears in the 1997 cartoon series Mummies Alive! in "The Curse of Sekhmet" (Episode 11). Unlike in her classic depiction as a lion-headed female, she appears a regular human and can turn into an anthropomorphic vulture instead.
• Sekhmet is one of the creatures in the mobile game Deck Heroes, where she is portrayed as a man with long hair.
• Sekhmet is one of three old-world goddesses providing guidance to the titular heroine in the young-adult novella Fearless Inanna by Jonathan Schork.^[54]
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Sekhmet is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Set.^[55][56]
• In the videogame Assassin's Creed Origins, Bayek, the main character, can fight Sekhmet as a boss in one of the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events.^[57][58][59] He also wears a Sekhmet costume and portrays the goddess in a ritual fight against a portrayal of Isfet during a festival in Yamu.^[60][61]
• In Quest for Glory III: Wages of War, Sekhmet is the patron goddess of Tarna. This is mainly due to the fact that Tarna and its location in East Fricana is heavily inspired by ancient Egypt, as well as African tribal lore.
• Sekhmet appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. Her most notable appearance in the series is as a random encounter in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner.
• Sekhmet is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug.
• Sekhmet features in the novel The Claws of Time by Jason Charles.
• Sekhmet is one of several "Titans" that are mentioned but never seen in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Set[]

Literature[]

• In the Conan mythos, Set is worshiped as a snake god by the people of Stygia in the Hyborean Age. Set never makes an appearance in the original Conan stories and is referred to as "Father Set" or "the Old Serpent".
• The Conan version of Set also inspired the Set of the Marvel Universe due to Marvel acquiring the rights to Conan in the early 1970s and incorporated Conan's Hyborian Age into the prehistoric days of Earth. However the Hydra-headed snake deity depiction of this god owes little to the Egyptian Set as this version is one of the Elder Gods of Earth within the Marvel Universe and is billions of years old.
• The Egyptian gods have made occasional appearances within comic books published by Marvel, including Set, though his name is spelled "Seth" to differentiate him from the Elder God of the same name. He is much closer to the Egyptian deity in that he is associated with darkness, chaos and death.
• In Soldier of Sidon, a novel by Gene Wolfe, Set plays a major role in the journey of a Roman soldier in ancient Egypt.
• In Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny, Set is captured by Anubis who erases his memory and sends him to kill Thoth.
• In The World of the Guardians book series by S. K. Whiteside, Set is portrayed as the primary villain of the series.
• Set appears in the Dark Hunter book series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
• In The Line Madder by Jenna Blackmore, the protagonist Seth is based on Set, with the ability to transform into the sha, or Set animal.
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the antagonist Alessi had a Stand named Sethan, which is named after Set. In the vein of Set being the reason why the moon darkens during the phases and eclipses, Sethan is an animated shadow, with the ability to regress those it touches to young ages.
• In Dennis Wheatley's novel The Devil Rides Out, the Satanist Mocata seeks the Talisman of Set to open a gateway to the underworld.
• Seth appears as the main antagonist of Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City.
• In Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan (shown primarily during the first novel of the trilogy, The Red Pyramid), Set is one of the major antagonists and is based closely on the Egyptian deity. In the remaining books he acts as a supporting character.
• In the 2001 novel American Gods, Set is mentioned to have retired in San Francisco in 1906, the same year a devastating earthquake rocked the city.

Film and television[]

• In the animated series Conan the Adventurer, Set is portrayed as an evil snake god who is the source of the wizard Wrath-Amon's powers.
• In The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Set is portrayed as the supernatural antagonist in the mini-series.
• The 1975 Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars reinterpreted the ancient Egyptian divine canon as a race of aliens called Osirians, creators of a civilization of near-omnipotent technological and psychic power. The god Set was reinterpreted as Sutekh (also known as "The Destroyer"), the most vicious, destructive and pan-genocidal of the Osirians, who was imprisoned circa 5000 BC in Egypt.
  • Sutekh is also the main antagonist in The True History of Faction Paradox, part of the Doctor Who spin-off series Faction Paradox. He featured in a series of six Faction Paradox audio plays (the first of which, Coming to Dust, was released in 2004) which further explored Osirian society and also featured other Osirian characters including Horus.
• In the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, Set (Gerard Butler) is the main antagonist.
• Seth appears in the "Isis and Osiris" two-part episode in the Canadian series MythQuest, fulfilling his usual role as Osiris's killer.
• In Mummies Alive!, Set and Anubis are secondary villains throughout the series, often summoned with other deities to cause trouble in the show. Instead of a Set animal, however, Set is made to look like an anthropomorphic bulldog.
• In seaQuest DSV, Set is used as a villain in the season 2 episode "Something in the Air".
• In Stargate SG-1, Seth, or Setesh, is a Goa'uld. In the series, Seth has been hiding from Ra on Earth for thousands of years, using advanced technology and drugs to set himself up as the object of worship for various cults throughout history.
• In the Puppet Master series of horror films, Sutekh is the primary villain, revealed in Puppet Master 4 to be the elder god who created the magic that gives the Puppet Master's puppets life.
• In Tutenstein, Set is the villain of the series, repeatedly trying to steal Tut's Scepter of Was to rule the Underworld and Overworld.
• Set, portrayed by Javier Botet, is a major antagonist in the 2017 film The Mummy, in which he gives Ahmanet the Dagger of Set to bring him into the real world through the body of a mortal.
• In the series finale of the 2001 anime series Hellsing, a demon named Set is summoned from the underworld.
• In the anime/manga Yu-Gi-Oh!, Seto Kaiba is regarded as the reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian priest Seth, who is representative of the deity Set. The same applies to Pharaoh Atem (Yami Yugi), representing the deity Horus, thus also highlighting the rivalry the two characters share, just as the gods Horus and Set did in Egyptian mythology.
• In Samurai Jack, Aku releases the minions of Set and orders them to kill Samurai Jack in the episode "Jack in Egypt". They all appear to be stylized versions of the seth animal.
• In the last episode of the 1988 revival of Mission: Impossible, the team works to thwart a museum curator who wishes to use Set as a part of his plan to revive the pharaonic system, with himself as pharaoh.^[62]

Video games[]

• Seth frequently appears as a demon throughout the Megami Tensei series.
  • Seth is an optional boss in Digital Devil Saga 2 after Shiva and Vishnu and before Satan.
• In Nightshade, Sutekh is the villain who takes control of every gang in Metro City, combining them into one.
• Within the Persona series, Set appears as a Persona, switching his tarot classification.
  • In Persona 2 and Persona 5, Set is a persona of the Tower Arcana.
  • In Persona 3 and Persona 4, Seth is a persona of the Moon Arcana.
• In PowerSlave, Set is a boss character depicted as a horrible demonic being.
• In Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, Lord Set is the enemy and the main villain. His physical appearance is a tall, dark, elegant, somewhat evil wizard; his eyes and teeth resemble a snake.
• In Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Set possesses Werner Von Croy and he is also the final boss.
• In the tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: the Masquerade, Set is an ancient and powerful vampire and founder of the or Ministry, one of the thirteen clans.
• In Pharaoh, Seth is one of the five gods that can be worshipped in-game.
• In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Set is one of three major gods that can be worshiped by Egyptian players.^[63][64]
• In Endless Ocean: Blue World, Set, Isis, Osiris, and Nephthys are featured in the Cavern of the Gods.
• In The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid, Set is the true villain of the game.
• In Smite, Set and Horus were made playable characters in April 2019. Set gains the title of "The Usurper" in reference to his murder of Osiris.^[65]

Music[]

• Set is referenced by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth on some of their concept albums. He is often referred to as Set Abominae in their Egyptian mythology-based concept albums and comic book.
• Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth has a song entitled "Sculpting the Throne of Seth".
• Greek metal band Septic Flesh have a song on their second album entitled The Eyes of Set. Additionally, vocalist/bassist Spiros Antoniou is often referred to as "Seth".
• The Swedish symphonic metal band Therion has a song "In the Desert of Set" on their 1996 album Theli.
• The gothic/doom metal band The Vision Bleak have a song entitled "By Our Brotherhood With Seth".
• Norwegian black metal band 1349 has an album entitled Demonoir which features an ambient song entitled "The Tunnel of Set", which is broken down into seven small tracks. Additionally, other songs on the album such "The Devil of the Deserts" contain vague references to Set.
• The American Ancient Egyptian-themed death metal band Nile reference Set in their song "Black Hand of Set" on the album In the Beginning.

Sobek[]

• In the videogame Assassin's Creed: Origins, Sobek features as one of three gods that the player can fight in the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events.^[66][67][68]
• In the Megami Tensei series, Sobek sometimes appears as a demon. While his first appearance was in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, his most notable appearance was as an optional boss in Shin Megami Tensei If....
• The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Sobek as one of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set. Sobek grants Santiago enhanced strength and turns his skin a greyish green, highlighting his crocodile basis.
• Sobek has been heavily satirized by YouTuber hbomberguy in his video Flat Earth: A Measured Response.^[69] This went on to become an in-joke within his community.
• A villain disguised as Sobek appears as the monster in "Trading Chases", the sixth episode of the first season of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, terrorizing a museum that had recently acquired a sarcophagus.
• Sobek is a playable god in Smite.

Thoth[]

• Aleister Crowley's book on the Tarot is entitled The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being The Equinox Volume III No. V.
• Thoth-Amon (also spelled Thoth-amon) is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is an evil wizard in "The Phoenix on the Sword", the first of the Conan the Cimmerian stories. He is often used as Conan's arch enemy in derivative works but the two characters never met in any of Howard's original stories. He was obviously named after the Egyptian deity Thoth and possibly has a connection. The god Thoth along with his Egyptian look is called Ibis and he is a lesser Stygian god who opposes Set.
• Thoth is frequently mentioned in the Matthew Reilly novels Seven Ancient Wonders and The Six Sacred Stones.
• Thoth and the cosmology presented in the Book of Thoth are major elements of the plots in the King's Man trilogy by the Canadian novelist Pauline Gedge.
• The computer game NetHack, which features deities whose favor the player must win in order to succeed, features Thoth as the god of neutral (balanced alignment) wizards, in keeping with his role as god of balance and wisdom.
• Philosopher Jacques Derrida uses Socrates' "Myth of Theuth" to argue for deconstruction and the instability of Truth since writing is pharmakon, both poison and cure—that which puts play into play.
• The Coptic liturgical new year begins with the month of Thout which is a carry-over from the ancient Egyptian month dedicated to Thoth. The first day of Thoth corresponds, currently, to 11 September in the Gregorian calendar or the twelfth if a leap year Coptic calendar.^[70]
• Thoth appears as Mr. Ibis in the 2001 novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, then subsequently depicted in the television series adaptation. He works as an undertaker alongside Mr. Jacquel (Anubis).
• The current logo of Cairo University, which is the oldest university in Egypt, embodies the image of Thoth sitting on his throne.
• Thoth is one of the main characters in Roger Zelazny's novel Creatures of Light and Darkness.
• The ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid, a 1990s video game for young learners, features Thoth as a non-player character. Thoth guides the eponymous Cluefinders across the "Chasm of Words", with the assistance of a pair of baboon statues.
• In the Stargate SG-1 franchise, Thoth is a member of the Goa'uld. Various interpretations of the character appeared in spin-off media before the character appeared in the series itself as a minor Goa'uld, the chief scientist of Anubis.
• In the otome game series Kamigami no Asobi, which features various deities brought to an academy by Zeus to restore the divine's connection to humans, Thoth is recruited as a teacher in the academy and is also a romance option.
• Thoth is one of the gods used by the Pharaoh in Miraculous Ladybug in the episode of the same name.
• In the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, Thoth is played by Chadwick Boseman. Boseman's casting attracted media attention, as he was one of the few non-white actors to appear in the film, with some suggesting that Boseman as Thoth was essentially an example of the Magical Negro stock character.^[71]
• Thoth is a playable god in Smite, labeled "The Arbiter of the Damned".
• In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Thoth is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Boingo, spelled Tohth. In the vein of Thoth being the god of knowledge and writing, Tohth takes the form of a comic book that predicts the future.
• Thoth frequently appears in the Megami Tensei series.

See also[]

• Egyptian influence in popular culture

References[]