Aah: was an old god in charge of the moonyear. Besides meaning moon his name can be inter- preted as "collar", "em- brace" and "defender".
His duties were shadowy and he was seen as a moon crescent often with sun disk upon it. He followed mainly Thoth and Khons, but also others. Rarely he was upon the head of a sitting Osiris with whom he was known in texts as Osiris-Aah. He could be seen as Thoth-Aah with a crescent upon a pedestal standing in a boat. He took part in "The Book of the Dead" where he was quoted in a prayer presenting himself saying: "I am the moon-god Aah, the dweller among the gods".
His most famous roll was in Eyptian mythology was a tale where he gambled with Thoth and made him help the couple Nut and Geb to raise a family.
Ahy: the god and protector of music and musicians. He was depicted as a very young man with a short hair cut except for his long curly hair-lock with which hung down over his cheek, this represented that he was still a child. Ahy is usually depicted wearing a small diadem with the cobra Buto, in his right hand he holds a decorated sistrum which was a common instrument to make rhythmic sounds. The sistrum can also be seen worn on top, his mother, Hathor's head. His father was Horus.
Aken: Ferryman of the Underworld. Aken was also know as Kherty and was often depicted as a man with a rams head, standing in the stern of a papyrus boat. He was never truly worshipped, but mentioned in many hymns and passages of The Book of the Dead.
Aker: was an earth god who guarded the gates of dawn and sunset through which the sun rose every morning and set every evening, as well as guarding the passage of Ra's daily journey across the sky. There was also a more threatening side to Aker that can be seen when he is pluralized as Akeru in the form of multiple earth gods. Aker was shown as the foreparts of two opposing lions, sometimes with human heads, facing away from each other. One lion faces west while the other faces east. In between them is the sign of the horizon.
Am-Heh: Am-Heh was a threatening Underworld god whose name means "Devourer of Millions". He was said to dwell in a Like of Fire, and if that were not enough, his ferocity was augmented by his having the face of a hunting dog and an appetite for sacrifices. Only Atum could fend off Am-Heh.
Amaunet: - A female counterpart to Amon and one of the primordial gods of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad (group of eight gods). She was also worshipped at Thebes along with Amon and Mut.
Ament (a.k.a Amentet): was know as Greeter of the Dead. Ament is the consort of Aken, and it was she who greets the souls of the newly dead, offering them bread and water at the gates of the underworld following their arrival. Ament was never truly worshipped, but mentioned in many hymns and passages of The Book of the Dead.
Ammut (a.k.a Ammit, Ahemait): was a demon known Dead-Swallower". Ammut was a soul-eating monster. She witnessed the judgment of the dead in the "Hall of the Two Truths,” Maaty. Before souls could enter the afterlife they had to pass judgment by Osiris. As the king of the underworld, Osiris admitted only those souls who had lived good lives and who had received the proper burial rights under the protection of certain amulets and the recitation of certain words of power and divinity. To judge if a soul was worthy of entering the afterlife, the deceased’s heart was placed on one side of the Scales of Truth and a feather of Ma’at on the other side. If the heart, where the Egyptians believed the soul dwelled, was heavy with sins and out weighed Ma’at’s feather, Ammut ate the soul dooming it to eternal death. If the heart weighed equal to Ma’at’s feather the soul earned eternal life in the Duat, a fertile land.
Amon (a.k.a Amen, Amun, Ammon, Amoun, Amon-Ra): Amun was one of the most powerful gods in ancient Egypt. Amon was a creation-god. His name meant "the hidden one" suggesting that he once had been an invisible natural spirit of some sort. He was thought to be self-made and was incorporated with the old myths of creation. At the height of Egyptian civilization he was called the 'King of the Gods'. Amon was important throughout the history of ancient Egypt. However, when Amun was combined with the sun god Ra he was even more powerful. He was then called Amon-Ra. Amon was usually associated with the wind, or things hidden, and was also of the Hermopolitian Ogdoad. He was part of the Theban Triad, along with Mut(Amon's wife) and Khonsu(Amon's son).
