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Vyacheslav Argenberg  · CC BY 4.0

Tradition collection 377 records

Ancient Egypt

Three thousand years of gods whose names, forms and relationships changed with the dynasty and the city.

  • Extent Nile valley and Nubia, roughly 3100 BCE to 400 CE.
  • Holds 195 gods · 145 places · 20 figures · 6 texts and stories
Meet the gods

Before you count

Egyptian theology is local and periodised, and a single 'parent of' row flattens a god who was a different god at Memphis and at Thebes.

What else it is missing

Gods · 195

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 195 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Egyptian mythology 98 members on record Explore the pantheon

Not their own pictures Ptah-Sokar-Osiris — lead image of the French Wikipedia article Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul — Ba-bird-72.4178, archaeological artefact

Places · 145

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 145 places

145 places 145 with a point on the map 37 with a date 19 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 4th millennium BCE Heliopolis
  2. c. 2700 BCE Bent Pyramid
  3. 27th century BCE Meidum Pyramid
  4. 2640 BCE Pyramid of Djoser
  5. 2590 BCE Red Pyramid
  6. 2589 BCE Dahshur Archaeological site
  7. c. 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza
  8. the 2510s BCE Pyramid of Menkaure

Where they gather

Cities and sites with two or more of its places recorded in them — counted from each place’s own location.

Figures · 20

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 20 figures

Not their own pictures Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul — Ba-bird-72.4178, archaeological artefact Manetho — lead image of the English Wikipedia article

More of its best-linked figures

Texts and stories · 6

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 4 stories All 2 texts

Traditions · 6

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

Offices and houses · 6

Offices and houses

Recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. An office is a line of holders, not a family. A ruling house’s affiliation is the family’s, not its subjects’ practice.

All 2 offices All 4 houses

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 377 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
915
With references
62
Undated
315
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Egyptian theology is local and periodised, and a single 'parent of' row flattens a god who was a different god at Memphis and at Thebes.
  • Transliterated names vary by school; the label shown is Wikidata's, not a normalised one.
  • Temple activity is recorded as a building date far more often than as documented worship.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds none.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 5 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Ancient Egypt by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Cities and sites, through the places recorded in them · 1

  • Thebes — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection

Places, through the god they are dedicated to · 2

Parts, through the whole they belong to · 1

Works, through their main subject · 1

Most likely Hamish2k, the first uploader · CC BY-SA 3.0

Keep going

Walk Ancient Egypt another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Isis’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Nefertiti