Egypt had by tradition a great variety of gods and what today can be labelled as “spirits” and “fairies”.
The total of them all was over 2.000, but many of them had similar characteristics and appeared all over the country by different names. The huge diversity is due to the fact that before the country was united the Nile Valley was divided into about forty self ruling areas (later to be provinces - so called nomes) where the ruling tribe had its own deities. Almost all gods had one thing in common - they had a counterpart of the opposite sex and manifested themselves on earth through animals.

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