ABSTRACT
The foreign gods who appealed most to them and those who were identified with war and the chase in some parts of Upper Egypt the Mother-goddess of Western Asia and the 'naked goddess' and Ashtoreth found worshippers. The greater number of the gods of Egypt worshipped in dynastic times are in Nilotic origin, even though fundamental conceptions concerning them and forms of their worship differed very considerably from those which were current in the predynastic period. The original homes of many of the gods were in countries to the south of Egypt, and the funerary ceremonies which were performed in Upper Egypt under the Middle and New Kingdoms prove that their place of origin was in the south. PTAH one of the oldest gods of Egypt is represented in the form of a dwarf, with a beetle on the crown of his head.
