Comparison
of ancient Egyptian deities with Thamizh deities of Aaseevagam Pantheon:
Egyptian deity
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Characteristic and Epithets
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Symbols
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Matching Traits, Symbols in Thamizh Culture or other Cultures
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Aaseevagam deity equivalent
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Atum
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First god, Solar deity, King, Ra,
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serpent, mongoose, lion, bull, lizard, ape
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Serpent, bull, IVC
Pasupathi / Patron of animals
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Sivan
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Amun /Amen-Ra
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Creator Deity, Fertility God,
Pharaoh,
Solar deity,
King of gods, champion of poor, troubled
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Ram/Goat + Ra/Falcon
falcon = distant/ high in the sky
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Amman - female Thamizh folk deities
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Murugan as deluge saviour and king, creator of female
Ammans
Amen-Ra: Mururgan + Sivan
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Anubis
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grave protector
afterlife
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Dog-headed
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Dog, grave wanderer Sudalaimadan - Thamizh folk deity
meaning Grave Man on a bull
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Sivan as Kaala Bhairvar and also as
Yaman - the judge of sins after death
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Apis
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sacred bull
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Rishabam aka Nandhi
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Bast/Bastet
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Protector of children, women, love, joy, pleasure, music,
dance
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cats
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Could be linked to Bengali Sashti deity, reproduction,
vegetation, cats,
protector of pregnant women,
infants and children, number6
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Latchumi Pachaiamma
Neelambigai aspects
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Eye of Horus/
Wadjet
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Green one, sacrifice, healing, restoration, and protection
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snake-headed or snake
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Maariamma- animal sacrifice and healing
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Pachaiamma,
Snake of Murugan
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Eye of Ra
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Destruction
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Eye aka the third eye of Sivan, Falcon
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Kundalini power awakening
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Kaali as consort of Siva/Ra
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Geb
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Husband of Renenutet, a minor goddess of the harvest
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Earth, snake, crops, barley, body patches of green, fresh
waters, vegetation, healing
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Murugan
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Horus
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Distant One
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Sun, moon
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Orion/Sivan as Seyon/Ancient One
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Isis
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Mother goddess nursing son
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Parvathy / Kaali with son Murugan
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Khnum
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Water, Goat, potter’s wheel, children
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Murugan
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Maat
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truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice.
Consort of Thoth
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Matha/Madha meaning goddess/Amman
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Saraswathi
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Mut
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Consort of Amun
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Cobra, cat, cow, lionness
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Muthu=Pearl
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Valli with Murugan’s snake,
Murugan’s Muthu/pearl relation
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Neith
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Creator goddess of hunting and war
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Loom
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weaving the earth with threads, weaving skill
Neithal
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Kotrravai - goddess of forest and war, Kadal Madha - the goddess of sailors, fisherman, coastal people
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Nepthys
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House, basket
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Latchumi / Illathal
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Nut
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sky goddess, water pot, cow
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Skies, stars, protection of dead
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Neelambigai
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Osiris
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"Lord of love",
"He Who is
Permanently Benign and Youthful", "Lord of
Silence"
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vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River
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Murugan
Azhagan - God of beauty, youth and fertility
Kumaran - Survivor of Kumari Kandam Flood/Great Deluge 11,000 years ago
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Ptah
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green man, demiurge, god of
craftsmen, architects, carpenters, shipbuilders and sculpture *the beautiful face *lord of truth *master of justice *who listens to prayers *master of ceremonies *lord of eternity |
Nature- flora and fauna
Green skin, bearded, sceptre,
sun and moon disks
young and vigorous man
embodies the underground fire
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Murugan/Aasari/ Dhandayudhapaani as farming pioneer, craftsman, youth, king, yogi-saint, tropical calendar with lunar months and sun’s lateral movement |
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Ra
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Sun god,
Lord of 3 worlds,
Egyptians:
"Cattle of Ra"
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Sun, bull, falcon
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Sivan as El, the
Sun god, Yaman
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Sah
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Father of the gods
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Orion constellation
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Sivan
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Satis
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war goddess, fertility goddess, love
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Bow and arrow
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Kotravai - goddess of hunt and forest
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Kaali
Pachaiamma
Neelambigai all
combined
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Set
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Storms, disorder, violence, killed brother Osiris
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sceptre
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Cain killed brother Abel, Seth
Iyyanar ie. Sastha /Sathan (trader) Sastha>Satha > Set/Seth
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Murugan
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Sekhmet
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Warfare, justice, healing
"(One) Before Whom Evil Trembles"
"Mistress of Dread"
"Lady of Slaughter"
"She Who Mauls"
Wadjet, Eye of Ra
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Lion headed, green skinned
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Kaali and Pachaiamma aspects
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Seshat
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Consort of Thoth goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and
writing.
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Seven pointed emblem
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Pleiades
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Saraswathi /
Deivanai wife of Murugan
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Shu
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fighter and defender
consort Maat
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Air, Fog, clouds
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Seasons
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Murugan
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Sopdet
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fertility of soil, pentagram
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Venus, green
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Pachaiamma
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Thoth
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god of architecture, mathematics and medicine, arbitration
of godly disputes, the arts of magic, the system of writing, the development
of science,the judgment of the dead.
Deputy of Ra
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Moon, creation of 360 day calender
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Egyptians: science, religion, philosophy, and magic
Greek: inventor of astronomy, astrology, the science of
numbers, mathematics, geometry, surveying, medicine, botany, theology,
civilized government, the alphabet, reading, writing, and oratory.
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Murugan
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