Nekhebet was a vulture-goddess, Uatchet a serpent goddess.
Nut the sky-goddess is a primeval mother and associated with Neith, Mut and Hathor. Maat is the goddess of truth and her symbol is a feather.
As the one who dispenses life, the great Mothergoddess represented nature under her two-fold aspect prolific and destructive by turns, yet she was eternal and undecaying, "being the goddess of the land."
Recognising the eternity of matter, it was the "self-power" or life in nature-in trees, rivers, hills, vegetation, animals-that the ancients worshipped as manifestations of a Divine, Unknown Power.
Gods multiplied, shifted with changing thought.
Besides the great gods of sun and moon, fire and water and earth, there were atmospheric gods of winds, storms, lightnirw, rain; the vegetation gods who are tree spirits, corn spirits; the secondary gods of fire- Ptah, Vulcan, Hephrestos-gods who forge the thunderbolts; g~ of wisdom and counsel, Thoth, Minerva, Athene; the messenger gods, Anubis, Hermesa vast multitude of deities grafted on from time to time, yet as typifying forces of nature they meant in all countries of antiquity practically the same thing.
