Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture

Ancient Egyptian deities that have appeared in popular culture include Set, Thoth, Khonsu, Ra and Horus.

General or Collective References
  • The Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan has many references to Ancient Egyptian mythology. It references many deities, including Horus, Isis, Set, Apophis, Ra, and many more.[1]

Amunet
  • In the TV series Penny Dreadful, the character of Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) is implied to be an incarnation of Amunet.
  • In the TV series Stargate SG-1, Amaunet (Vaitiare Bandera) is a recurring Goa'uld (a parasitic alien who rules part of the galaxy using a human host and claiming to be a god) character and consort of Apophis.
  • Amunet (portrayed by Sofia Boutella) appears as a fictionalized characterization in the titular role for the 2017 version of The Mummy.[2][3] The film serves as the first installment in the Dark Universe.
  • In the videogame Assassin's Creed Origins the character Aya later changes her name to Amunet, "the hidden one."[4][5] A statue of Amunet, identifying her as the assassin of Cleopatra, appeared in the earlier video game Assassin's Creed II.[6][7][8]

Anubis
  • In Luna Sea's third album Eden, the song Anubis is about a man who in love with the god Anubis.
  • In the 2004 English-language French film Immortal, Bastet and Anubis appear as the controllers of a pyramid that appears over New York City in the year 2095. They strip Horus of his immortality and give him a limited amount of time to procreate with a human. The film is based upon director Enki Bilal's own 1980s The Nikopol Trilogy graphic novel series.
  • In Stargate SG-1, Anubis is a Goa'uld and the most ruthless of his species. Unlike most of his race, Anubis has some limited claim to being an actual god, as he once "ascended" to a higher plane of existence and gained great power and knowledge as a result.
  • In Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, a television series that ran on ABC from 3 March to 15 July 2004, Antubis is the companion of the ghost of Mary Jensen. Near the end of the season, he reveals his true name is Anubis, but accepts Mary's mispronunciation of the name without issue.
  • Anubis is the villain of the 2014 film The Pyramid, which depicts him as being trapped in an underground pyramid due to the horrors he committed in an attempt to reunite with his father.
  • In Overwatch, a map takes place in Giza Necropolis named Temple of Anubis, the map features a temple situated below the Giza plateau which houses a rogue AI system that took over its defenses in the past. It also features a bazaar, statues that represent Anubis and multiple weapon caches scattered around the map that links it to insurgent or terrorist activity in the area.
  • Anubis is a featured character and a romance option in the otome game Kamigami no Asobi, where he is portrayed as a crafty but shy, young, dark skinned man with the ears of a jackal and black "stains" (from the sins of those he's helped pass on) on his arms and legs.
  • Anubis, voiced and motion-captured by Goran D. Kleut, was featured in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt as a guide for recently deceased souls entering the afterlife.
  • Anubis is a playable character in the MOBA Smite, which features mythological entities from different cultures fighting alongside or against one another. Anubis is classified as a mage, and is labeled as "The God of the Dead". He was one of the first gods designed for the game, and has a very simple ability kit. As a mage, he has high damage, but he takes this further by trading his mobility for damage, giving him higher damage capabilities than almost any other god in the game. As a result, he is a polarizing character, with his strengths in high burst damage, but his flaws highly evident if he is ever rushed down.
  • The MOBA League of Legends champion named Nasus resembles Anubis.
  • Anubis also appeared as a playable character in three fighting games - War Gods by Midway Studios, Pray For Death by Lightshock Software and Fight of Gods.
  • Anubis has been featured in the Titan Books series Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, where he initially appears as an enemy of the Tenth Doctor, but later becomes his companion.
  • Anubis makes appearance in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pyramid of Light he is the Main Antagonist and he tries to destroy the world by controlling Seto Kaiba's Mind and using the trap Card "Pyramid of light" And the monster Cards "Andros sphinx" and "Sphinx Teleia" but he was stopped by Yami Yugi in a duel.
  • In Beyblade Metal Fury Anubis is an Beyblade called "Mercury Anubis".
  • The Digimon Anubismon is based on Anubis. He plays the role of judging the dead one as either to be reborn as a digiegg or sent to the dark area.
  • The Pokémon Lucario is based on Anubis, being a bipedal jackal-like being.
  • Anubis appears in several episodes of Gargoyles.
  • Anubis appears in an episode of The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, where he is summoned as a counter to the cat-summoned Bastet only to become enamored with her.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Anubis is represented as a Stand (a superpowered manifestation of a person or animal's fighting spirit) bound to a sword that possesses whoever wields it, and can selectively phase through solid objects.
  • In the Megami Tensei series, Anubis frequently appears as a member of the Avatar race of demons. He first appeared in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
    • In Persona 5, Anubis is an enemy that can be fought in the fourth palace.
  • Anubis is the first boss of the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events in Assassin's Creed Origins.[9][10]
  • Anubis is a skin for the playable character Roger in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
  • Anubis appears as Mr. Jacquel in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
    • In American Gods, the TV adaptation of the aforementioned novel, Anubis again appears as Mr. Jacquel.
  • In The Mummy Returns, the movie's plot centers on a deal made between Anubis and the Scorpion King.
  • In the 2015 Animated Television series Egyxos, Anubis (Shortened to Anubi) is a shape shifting servant of Exaton.
  • Anubis is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug, giving him the ability to fire eye beams that turn people into mummies, a necessity for his plan to resurrect Nefertiti.
  • A boss based on Anubis named Anubis Necromancess appears in Mega Man Zero and Mega Man Zero 3. Much in how Anubis is the God of the Dead, Anubis Necromancess summons deactivated Reploids (androids with free will and a thought process similar to that of humans) to act as servants to attack, but can also throw his staff like a boomerang and control sand, creating walls or coffins made of them to squish enemies, or trap them in quicksand.
  • In Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, the zombie character Tomb Raiser Zombie from Ancient Egypt takes design inspiration from Anubis; its namesake is a reference to Tomb Raider.
    • There is an achievement dedicated to it, called "A-noob-is".

Apep / Apophis
Massive binary star system nicknamed Apep.[11]
  • Apophis appears in the fictional novel trilogy The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan. He is the main antagonist in the series. During the course of the series he starts making a firm impression. He is finally defeated by host of Ra, Zia Rashid and other characters of the books including Carter Kane and Sadie Kane.
  • Apophis is a gigantic, snake-like dæmon and bringer of chaos depicted in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. Every night, he is slain by Ra. Set releases him, intending to let chaos remake the world and claim dominion over the afterlife, but after Ra is rescued by Horus, Ra again slays Apophis.
  • Apophis appears as an unplayable monster in SMITE. He spawns in the middle circle of the Clash gamemode map dealing heavy initial damage to anyone standing in the circle. He then is passive until attacked, and after death, grants the team that slayed him a powerful buff. He made his release with the new Clash map, which was remodeled from a Greek theme to an Egyptian theme.
  • Apophis was a Goa'uld System Lord in the television series Stargate SG-1, serving as the original and longest-running antagonist of the show. He was described as a rival of Ra while the Supreme System Lord still lived. Apep is described as a separate System Lord and the founder of the Goa'uld civilization in the SG-1 RPG. Apep was killed by Anubis, his symbiote consumed so that Anubis could gain any secret knowledge he possessed.
  • Apep appears in the third season of The Librarians. He is mentioned multiple times within the season, but only appears in a physical form at the end of the season.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! Apophis is a Continuous Trap Card called Embodiment of Apophis.
  • Apep appears as a boss fight during a hallucination while investigating the cause of miscarriages of the wife of the head priest of Memphis in the game Assassin's Creed Origins - during which the character, Bayek, must fight him while staying aboard Ra's solar barque.
  • Apep is the Guardian of the Gates to the Land of the Living in the Netherworld and a boss in The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, voiced by Mark Hamill.[12]
  • Apep appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series.
  • Apophis appears in John Langan's novel, The Fisherman.
  • Apophis appears as a demon with the appearance of a worm in the television series, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
  • Apep appears in the sixth episode in Tutenstein, "The Boat of Millions of Years". Like other depictions, he is a snake-like entity constantly in conflict with Ra, but when the title character of the series orders Ra to stop time, Apep begins overthrowing Ra, urged to do so by Set.
  • Apep, known as Apep the Snaky One, appears as a Balance-elemental boss in Wizard101 and a servant of Ammit in Krokotopia (a world based heavily on Ancient Egypt and Egyptomania).

Astarte / Ashtoreth

Atum
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Atum is represented by the Stand of antagonist Telence D'Arby. However, despite the actual Atum being the creator god, the Stand Atum is more similar to the Stand of its user's brother Daniel (see the Osiris section), in that it steals the souls of its victims if they admit defeat, and also forces to respond truthfully to yes or no questions.

Bastet
  • Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God is a 1957 novel centered on a cat that awakens from anesthesia believing she is Bastet. The novel was adapted as the 1965 Disney film, The Three Lives of Thomasina.
  • In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, Bastet also lives in the "Little Egypt" area of Southern Illinois with Thoth and Anubis, usually taking the form of an otherwise ordinary brown housecat. She takes a liking to Shadow Moon and transforms into human shape to seduce him.
  • In Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman (Vertigo), Bast is a character that occurs throughout the series, offering the main protagonist Dream advice, companionship and alludes to mysteries she alone knows. She was once a major goddess, but the loss of her believers over time has significantly reduced her powers. She is often coquettish toward Dream, who sometimes goes to her for advice or companionship; but she has often claimed never to have been his lover. Bast has also appeared in issues of Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl, wherein she is one of the chief goddesses worshiped by the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall. She appears in Sandman Presents: Bast: Eternity Game (2003), where she attempts to regain her lost power.
  • In Stargate SG-1, Bastet is a Goa'uld. She is one of the "System Lords" who rule the galaxy, mentioned to have vanquished Sobek with the assistance of Kali, and to be a rival of Ba'al.
  • The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Bastet as one of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set. Bastet grants Leslie enchanted superhuman intelligence and turns her into a catgirl, showcasing her association.
  • In the 2004 film Immortal, Bastet and Anubis appear as the controllers of a pyramid that appears over New York City in the year 2095. They strip Horus of his immortality and give him a limited amount of time to procreate with a human.
  • Bastet is a playable god in Smite. She is classified as an assassin, and is labeled "The Goddess of Cats".
  • The directory authority for the Tor anonymity network is named after the goddess.[13]
  • In Mummies Alive! Bastet provides the powers of the character Nefertiri and appears in one episode as an antagonist.
  • In an episode of The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs Bastet is summoned by a villainous group of cats in their bid for world domination, but is neutralized as a threat when the titular dogs summon Anubis; the two become enamored with each other and depart together.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Bastet (named Bast) is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Mariah, manifesting as her ability to make targets (including people) magnetic, attracting metal objects to them.
  • In the film version of Marvel's Black Panther, while not seen directly as a character, aside from a brief silent cameo in the exposition, Bast is called on during the ceremonies of connecting a person with the main healing/empowering 'heart-shaped herb'. In the comics of the same name, she has a stronger presence, acting as a psychopomp.[14]
  • Bastet appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. She first appeared in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
  • In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans," of Hercules, Hercules's friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves, and try to destroy Hercules and Icarus. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.[15]
  • Bastest appears in the 9th episode of the second season of Tutenstein, "Cleo's Catastrophe". Seeing how the title character's cat advisor Luxor does so much for him and gets to so little in return, she takes him to a place for felines to live luxuriously, unaware that he and her owner Cleo Carter had switched bodies.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Bastet is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis. Her improvements benefit the player's villagers, increasing their collection rate.
  • In the manga, Hyper Police, Bast is the mother of the series protagonist, Natsuki Sasahara.
  • In The Kingkiller Chronicle Bast is Kvothe's assistant, student, and friend and lives with him at the Waystone Inn. Bast is described to have a sharp and delicate face, almost beautiful, with striking blue eyes.
  • A mummy resembling Bastet is the main antagonist in the fifth episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, "Ollie Ollie In-Come Free!", in which she is referred to as "Bast."
  • In the fantasy novel series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Irish author Michael Scott, Bastet is part of a race of immortal beings who predated humanity and who were also worshipped as gods, known as Elders. She serves as an antagonist throughout parts of the series, working alongside John Dee and her niece The Morrigan. In appearance she is a tall humanoid female with a cat-like head and large yellow slit-pupiled eyes, wearing white cotton robes and carrying a spear as tall as she was. In the series, Bastet was the daughter of the Elders Perses and Asteria, the older sister of Hekate and Mars Ultor, the mother of Aten and Anubis and the wife of Amenhotep. In the series she possessed the power to summon and command all breeds of cats and frequently used cats as spies by seeing through their eyes. While inside the bounds of a Shadowrealm, the cats under Bastet’s control would transform into vicious human-sized cat-people.
  • Bastet appears as a supporting character in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles series.

Bes
  • Bes appears, as part of the delegation of Egyptian gods, in The Sandman: Season of Mists, by Neil Gaiman.
  • Bes is a friend and helper to the heroes in Pyramid Scheme by Eric Flint and Dave Freer.
  • Bes appears in the video game Realm of the Mad God as a boss of an Egyptian themed dungeon known as the "Tomb of the Ancients", alongside Nut and Geb.
  • Bes makes an appearance in the eight episode of the first season of Tutenstein, "There's Something About Natasha". He helps the title character in his crush on a girl named Natasha, giving him a love spell to make her fall in love with him.

Geb
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Geb is represented by the Stand of the antagonist N'Doul. Oddly, despite Geb being an earth deity, the Stand Geb is a sentient mass of water.
  • Geb is a playable God in Smite. He is portrayed as an earthly, rocky yet a bulky humanoid figure, thus the title "God of Earth". He's classified as a guardian, who can use his shield to save frantic teammates. Geb also has other support-like abilities, like stunning enemies in a circle around him and knocking them back in a shape of a cone. Geb is voiced by Christopher Sabat, with a rather slow and extremely deep voice.
  • Geb makes an appearance in the children's show Tutenstein, in the episode "The Unsafety Zone", both mentioned as named in an artifact called the Crown of Geb, and as the deity himself who, like in the myth, laughs to generate a landslide to stop some robbers.

Hathor
  • Hathor, played by Élodie Yung, is the goddess of love in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. She is depicted as being in particular love with Horus, who rescued her before the start of the film, and it is thanks to her that Horus is not murdered by Set when Set takes control of Egypt. She sacrifices her own life to aid Bek, a mortal, in securing a place for his recently deceased love, Zaya, in the afterlife.
  • In the TV series Stargate SG-1, Hathor is played by Suanne Braun, the mate of Ra and the mother of Heru'ur (Horus). She tried to take over the SGC, but ultimately her arrogance leads to her downfall and eventual death.
  • In Capcom's Street Fighter video game series, Hathor uses another form name, Menat. With a slightly different hieroglyphic spelling, it referred to an ancient Egyptian artifact which was closely connected with the goddess Hathor. It was used as a protective amulet, meant to ensure good luck and fortune and to protect against evil spirits. She uses soul power and magic ball in her fighting style. Her occupation is fortune teller.
  • Hathor appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. She first appeared in Shin Megami Tensei If... as a recruitable ally that joins the party if the current moon phase is a New Moon.
  • Hathor appears in the fifth episode of the children's animated series Tutenstein, where when she hears the complaints of the title character (a mummified, immature young pharaoh brought back to life in modern day America), she sees the actions of some construction workers (not building a pyramid and leaving Tutenstein trapped in concrete) as a direct act of blasphemy against the gods, and turns into Sekhmet, going on a rampage.
  • Hathor serves as the name of the home planet of the Splixson in the Ben 10 series.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Hathor is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis. Her improvements benefit the player's buildings by decreasing their cost and increasing the amount of damage they can take.

Heqet
  • One of the bosses in Mega Man Zero 2, Burble Hekelot, is named after the fertility goddess, even bearing a design based on the animal closely associated with her, the frog.

Horus
  • In Stargate SG-1, Horus appears as Heru-ur. As in some obscure real-world myths, Heru-ur in the series is the son of Ra and Hathor. Like most of the "gods" who appeared in the series, Heru-ur is a Goa'uld.
  • The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Horus as the leader of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set. Horus grants Owen the power of flight and a pair of wings. Like the other deities who grant the Cluefinders their abilities, he speaks in a New Jersey accent.
  • In Beyblade: Metal Masters, the character Nile of Team Wild Fang has a bey called Vulcan Horuseus, modified after Horus
  • In the 2004 film Immortal, Horus has been stripped of his immortality for reasons not explained in the film. Appearing in a floating pyramid above New York City in 2095, Horus is allowed by his jailers, Anubis and Bastet, to visit the city below and procreate with a human.
Horus is portrayed by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the 2016 film, Gods of Egypt.
  • The 2016 film Gods of Egypt follows the story of Horus's battle to reclaim his throne from his power-hungry uncle, Set. Inspired by a mortal named Bek who steals one of his eyes which were stolen from him by Set, the two set out on the journey to overthrow Set. Horus, the sky god, is initially bent on vengeance, but learns, toward the end of the film, that his real focus should be on protecting his people and to believe in himself. After he overthrows Set, he institutes a new policy: No longer were riches required in order to enter the afterlife; now, people were to be judged by whether their deeds in life were good. Horus was played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. While Horus usually assumes a fully humanoid, albeit one with uncanny accuracy, he can turn into a human-falcon hybrid for combat purposes.
  • In the Games Workshop tabletop franchise Warhammer 40,000, Horus Lupercal is the main antagonist of the Horus Heresy. The story is contains many elements of Egyptian mythology, including the Eye of Horus and the pivotal confrontation between Horus and the protagonist, The Emperor: similar to Horus's confrontation with Set.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Horus is represented by the stand of the antagonist Pet Shop, an intelligent falcon, referencing Horus' falcon head. Horus manifests in Pet Shop as his ability to control ice, and can also form into a pterodactyl-like creature.
  • Horus is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug, giving him the power of flight.
  • Horus appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. He first appeared in Shin Megami Tensei II.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Horus is a minor god who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and (somewhat incongruously) Set. His improvements benefit the player's infantry, increasing their resistance and their damage output.
  • Gigabyte's gaming sub-brand, Aorus, has taken some inspiration from Horus, namely the Falcon head and a play on the name.
  • In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the army of Horus warriors has been summoned by Kahmunrah and later retreat to Duat by the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
  • In the video game Smite, Horus and Set were made into playable characters in April 2019, with the former having the title of "The Rightful Heir". While classed as a warrior, and therefore having the potential to both deal and absorb damage, he is most often played as a guardian (i.e. tank). This is because of his ability to both support and set up for his team. He can target his teammates and dash to their aid, healing them and providing extra protections, as well as the ability to lock down enemies by knocking them up with a gust of wind from his wings and then stunning them. He can also teleport his team by flying to any ground location. Combined with his ability to shred enemy protections, he can facilitate his team for extra damage. His kit all tie into his lore as a protector and the god of the sky. Interestingly, his passive stacks once each time he is hit by another character in the game, but if this character is Set, he will gain two stacks per hit, tying into the fierce rivalry between the two.

Isis
  • Portrayed as a blonde woman, Isis is one of ten pagan gods that met at the Elysian Fields Hotel to try to figure out a way to prevent the Christian Apocalypse in "Hammer of the Gods," the season 5, episode 19 episode of the U. S. television series Supernatural (22 April 2010). She is slaughtered by Lucifer.
  • Played by Rachael Blake, Isis is the wife of Osiris in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt.
  • Isis is a playable goddess in Smite She is classified as a mage and is labeled as "The Goddess of Magic". She is more team-oriented than her more damage-oriented mage brethren, and comes equipped with a versatile ability kit to deal with most situations. She is strongest in the thick of battle allowing her ultimate move, Circle of Protection, to mitigate damage dealt to herself and her teammates, and charge up a heal and heavy damage when the circle is detonated, and she is weakest when alone or if she uses her spells unwisely. As previously mentioned, she also lacks some of the extra punch that other mages have.
  • Isis appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. She first appeared in Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis.
  • Isis has a small role in romance author Nina Bangs's book series "Castle of Dark Dreams" as the ex-lover of Holgarth and the mother of his son.

Khnum
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Khnum is represented by the stand of the antagonist Oingo. Much in how Khnum is known as the Divine Potter, the Stand Khnum gives Oingo the ability to mold his flesh like clay.
  • In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans," of Hercules, Hercules's friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves, and try to destroy Hercules and Icarus. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.[16]

Khonsu
  • The Marvel Comics character Moon Knight gained his powers after being resurrected by Khonsu (in the comics known as Khonshu).
  • In an episode of the TV series Stargate SG-1, Khonsu poses as one of the Goa'uld, a race of parasitic aliens who set themselves up as the gods of human mythology and have ruled the galaxy for thousands of years. At the time he appears, Khonsu is a minor lord sworn to Anubis. Khonsu is secretly part of the Tok'ra resistance that opposes the Goa'uld regime and their false theocracy.
  • In Worm by Wildbow, Khonsu is the name of an Endbringer who has special powers related to time.
  • Khonsu appears as a Genma demon in the Megami Tensei series. His main appearance was as a random encounter in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner.
  • In the novel The Claws of Time by Jason Charles, Khonsu sends the female protagonist Dimiza/River five hundred and twenty years into the future (from 1483 to 2003) to escape being executed by her lover, King Richard III, whom she helped become king.

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Nephthys
  • Despite being the wife of Set in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, Nephthys, played by Emma Booth, does not support his power-hungry ways. As such, Set assaults her and takes her wings.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Nephthys is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Set and Isis. Her improvements benefit the player's priests, making them do increased damage to myth units (units based on various mythical beings) and improve their healing ability.

Osiris
  • Played by Faran Tahir, Osiris is the principle villain in "Defending Your Life," the season 7, episode 4 episode of the U. S. television series Supernatural (14 October 2011). He is the Egyptian god of the dead, and he puts people who feel guilty on trial. Able to see into a person's heart, he sentences to death any who carries more than a feather's weight of guilt, commanding ghosts or spectres to carry out the sentence in a manner reflecting the defendant's guilt. In the episode, Osiris tries Dean and sentences him to death, but is stopped by Sam, who casts him into a centuries-long sleep by stabbing him with a shofar before Dean is killed.
  • Osiris is played by Bryan Brown in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. He is the King of Egypt and a just god. As he is about to crown his son, Horus, as his successor, his brother, Set murders him and takes the crown for himself.
  • Osiris is a playable god in Smite. Osiris is classified as a warrior and is labeled "The Broken God of the Afterlife" in reference to how Set chopped him into pieces. Osiris is seen as one of the most difficult characters to play effectively as his strategy is to slowly whittle away at the enemy with superior boxing, lane clear and strategic ability and basic attack usage while not having a designated "finisher"-style move. He is strongest in the thick of battle mitigating damage and annoying more damage-based characters, and as a warrior, does not have a true weakness. Warriors are a jack-of-all-trades class, and thus mostly do not excel at anything aside from being a meat-shield. If their team is weak, they are weak as well.
  • An alien guest character in The Sims Freeplay for mobile devices is named Osiris.
  • In Stargate SG-1, Osiris is a Goa'uld. Like many other Goa'uld, Osiris is several thousand years old, though this is due in Osiris' case to being forcibly removed from its former host in Ancient Egypt and put in a stasis chamber. Though Osiris is normally portrayed as male in mythology, Goa'uld themselves are genderless, and only reproduce by having queens spawn, and the human host, Sarah Gardner, played by Anna-Louise Plowman, is female. She is an antagonist in the series, and is subservient to another Goa'uld, Anubis.
  • The exoplanet HD 209458 b is sometimes given the nickname Osiris.[21]
  • The reserve boat for Oxford University Women's Boat Club (OUWBC) is called Osiris.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Osiris is an Egyptian God Card known as"Saint Dragon Osiris." In the English dub he is known as "Slifer The Sky Dragon".
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Osiris is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Daniel J. D'Arby. Much in how the real Osiris is the god of the underworld, the Stand Osiris allows D'Arby to steal the souls of others if they admit defeat.
  • Osiris is a member of the Deity race of demons in the Megami Tensei series. He first appeared in Ronde for the Sega Saturn.
  • In La-Mulana 2, Osiris is one of the 5th Children. Lumisa receives an important item when she speaks with him in the Underworld.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Osiris is a minor god who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Isis. His improvements benefit the player's camels and give them an extra pharaoh (which serves as the hero unit of Egypt). Osiris is notably the only Egyptian god who appears in-game, as the player is tasked with reuniting his body parts so he can oppose Set's mortal followers (who are working with Poseidon's agents to free the Titans).

Ra
  • In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones must use the headpiece of the Staff of Ra to find the location of the Ark of the Covenant, which is hidden in Tanis.[22]
  • Harvey Birdman, the titular character in the Hanna-Barbera animated series Birdman and the Galaxy Trio and, later, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, is a winged superhero who was said to have gained abilities of flight and solar projection from the Sun-God Ra.
  • In 2015, SolarCity began a new marketing campaign featuring Ra "at home" as a servant of the homeowner, inviting customers to "harness the power of the Sun and save."
  • Ra is the main villain of the 1994 film Stargate. In it, he is an alien that enslaves ancient Egyptians and brings them to a planet on the other side of the known universe using a device known as a Stargate. In the TV series that followed, Ra was retroactively established as the most powerful of the Goa'uld, a race of parasitic aliens that set themselves up as gods of human mythology and used humanity as a host and slave race across the galaxy.
  • In channeled messages of the New Age community, Ra is presented as an extraterrestrial entity presenting a central message of "...only one important statement...All things, all of life, all of the creation is part of one original thought."[23][24]
  • In Episode 46, "Hercules and the Romans," of Hercules, Hercules's friend Icarus pretends to be a deity for the newly settled city of Rome. Ra, Bastet, and Khnum appear to become true gods of Rome, having been requested by the Romans themselves, and try to destroy Hercules and Icarus. Only Ra actually speaks in the episode.[25]
  • Ra is a playable god in Smite. He is classified as a mage labeled as "Sun God". He was one of the first gods designed for the game, and has a matching simple ability kit. He is strongest when not fighting, as he has a strong healing circle that can be placed after fights to prepare for the next one, and is weakest when his primary damage abilities, which are long, narrow lines, miss. He is one of the only gods in the game to have a team heal, and very few are as potent as his, although the wounded must actually stay inside the circle, making Ra's team somewhat immobile if healing is required.
  • In season four of the Syfy reality television series Face Off, the contestant Eric F. created a Ra mummy based on the Evil Dead franchise.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Ra is an Egyptian God Card called "The Winged Dragon Of Ra" or "Sun Dragon Ra."
  • The Dagger of Amon Ra, the second game in the Laura Bow series of graphic adventures, features a Ra cult as a plot element.
  • The House of Anubis special is titled Touchstone of Ra.
  • The MOBA League of Legends champion named Azir resembles Ra
  • In the video game Age of Mythology and its remake, Age of Empires: Mythologies, Ra is one of three major gods that can be worshiped by Egyptian players. This serves mostly as a gameplay element and Ra himself does not appear in-game. When worshipped, Ra boosts a player's camels, chariots, and economy.
  • "Ra: The God of The Sun", is a marching band show composed by Rob Stein with Ra as the central theme.
  • In Savage Dragon, the character PowerHouse is a descendant of Ra.
  • In Overwatch, there is a Ra hero-skin for the character Zenyatta.
  • Ra, played by Geoffrey Rush, is depicted in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt as a creator god who drags the sun across the sky daily and slays the dæmon Apophis nightly. He is the father of Osiris and Set.
  • Ra is a recurring joke in the podcast "This Paranormal Life". He is first mentioned in #021 Real Life Vampires in 2017 where they joke about leaving everything to Ra in their will. They later did an entire Patreon Only Podcast on Ra and Ra is featured on their T-shirts alongside the catchphrase "Praise Ra!"
  • Ra (mostly referred to as Amon-Ra) appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei. He first appeared in Shin Megami Tensei If....
  • In La-Mulana 2, Ra is one of the Amarna tribe of 5th Children and also known as the Dark Star Lord. He chimerafies himself with Horus, becoming Ra-Horakty, and later the solar-powered weapon Aten, becoming the Guardian Aten-Ra.
  • In Elite, badges of rank worn by pilots, up to and including the eponymous Elite ranking, are based on images of Ra.
  • Ra appears both as a spell for members of the Balance school and a boss in Wizard101. As a spell, Ra deals a large amount of damage to all enemies.
  • Ra appears in the sixth episode of the 1st season of Tutenstein, "The Boat of A Million Years". Much like in the myth, he controls the boat that makes the sun rise and fall, but it also controls the flow of time, and in the episode, Tutenstein orders Ra to extend the night to continue watching monster movies, but in doing so, Tutenstein allow Apophis to run rampant and time stops entirely.
  • In Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Ra is featured as a "Perk Altar" in the Zombies gamemode.[26]

Sekhmet
  • Death metal band Nile referenced Sekhmet in the title track of their album "Ithyphallic", and in "The Eye Of Ra" on their album Those Whom the Gods Detest.
  • Death metal band Behemoth referenced Sekhmet in the song "Christgrinding Avenue" on their album The Apostasy.
  • Sekhmet is one of the evil female trinity of demigod vampires in author Kevin Given's "Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis" which is the first novel in the "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter" series the other two being the Hebrew Lilith and the Hindu Kali. She is also seen in the same author's comic book "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter" issues 1-6 which adapts the novel. She will be played by actress Jasmine Yampierre in the film version from Crisp Film Works.
  • Sekhmet is used in The 39 Clues book Beyond the Grave and is the reason why the characters travel to Cairo.
  • Sekhmet is also featured in The Red Pyramid written by Rick Riordan as a minor antagonist.
  • Sekhmet is the subject of "Lionheart" a song about the goddess by the symphonic power metal band, Amberian Dawn from their The Clouds of Northland Thunder album.
  • Sekhmet is the focus of "Resurrection", an episode of Stargate SG-1. The plot centers around a young girl named Anna who was created by a German doctor, who is the son of a Nazi. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c find artifacts belonging to the Goa'uld Sekhmet in the doctor's compound and realize that Anna was cloned using genetic material from the original Sekhmet, who was the executioner of Ra, the villain from the original film. A (possibly different) Sekhmet is also featured in the Stargate SG-1 game Stargate SG-1 Unleashed.
  • In Tutenstein, an animated TV series about ancient Egypt and its mythology, Sekhmet, and by technicality Hathor, is featured in the fifth episode, "The Powerful One". She goes on a rampage in the museum and a nearby building site to make people build a pyramid for Tut upon misinterpreting the immature pharaoh's tantrum of some modern-day construction workers not building him a pyramid as a direct act of blasphemy against the gods.
  • The space vessel "Sekhmet" is a level in the video game Jet Force Gemini, a third person shooter developed by Rare in 1999.
  • Sekhmet is also the name of an alien Aragami in the PlayStation Portable game, God Eater.
  • In the video game Skullgirls, Sekhmet is the name of the bloodthirsty cat-like skeleton parasite bonded to the Egypt-themed character Eliza.
  • In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode "The Great Game", John Watson believes a cat named Sekhmet is responsible for the death of her owner.
  • Sekhmet is the main character in Author S.K. Whiteside's World of the Guardians[27] book series. Set in modern-day New Orleans, Sekhmet goes by the name of Syn.
  • Sekhmet appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama, The Bride of Peladon. She is an Osiran.
  • The Temple of Goddess Spirituality in Southern Nevada is dedicated to the Goddess Sekhmet.
  • Sekhmet is the subject of Margaret Atwood's poem titled "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War".
  • In the comic The Wicked + The Divine, Sekhmet (spelled Sakhmet) is one of twelve gods who reincarnate every 90 years only to die within two years. In the current incarnation, she is a popstar modelled on Rihanna.
  • In Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series of books, Sekhmet is the name of one of the Emersons' cats.
  • Sekhmet appears in the comic Beasts of Burden: The Unfamiliar after being summoned by a gathering of witches and familiars.
  • Sekhmet appears in the 1997 cartoon series Mummies Alive! in "The Curse of Sekhmet" (Episode 11). After Scarab fell sick, he summoned Sekhmet to cure him. Instead, she unleashes havoc with the Plagues of Egypt and places a curse on the city, causing Presley to turn into a frog. Unlike in her classic depiction as a lion-headed female, she appears a regular human and can turn into an anthropomorphic vulture instead.
  • Sekhmet is one of the creatures in the mobile game "Deck Heroes", where she is portrayed as a man with long hair.
  • Sekhmet is one of three old-world goddesses providing guidance to the titular heroine in the young-adult novella Fearless Inanna, by author and illustrator Jonathan Schork.[28]
  • Sekhmet is an ancient, evil vampire featured in the M/M paranormal romance book A Light in the Darkness: Things That Go Bump.[29] She is the goddess of death and destruction infamous for her ability to create plague and cruelty.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Sekhmet is a minor goddess who can be worshiped by followers of Ra and Set. Her improvements benefit the player's archers and siege units.
  • Miss Sekhmet is a werelioness in the Custard Protocol books by Gail Carriger.
  • In the videogame Assassin's Creed Origins, Bayek, the main character, can fight Sekhmet as a boss in one of the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events.[30][31][32] He also wears a Sekhmet costume during a festival in Yamu.[33][34]
  • In Quest for Glory III: Wages of War, Sekhmet is the patron goddess of Tarna. This is mainly due to the fact that Tarna and its location in East Fricana is heavily inspired by ancient Egypt, as well as African tribal lore.
  • Sekhmet appears as a demon in the Megami Tensei series. Her most notable appearance in the series was as a random encounter in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner.
  • Sekhmet is one of the deities used by the Pharaoh in the episode of the same name in Miraculous Ladybug, giving him the power of enhanced strength.
  • In the novel The Claws of Time by Jason Charles, Sekhmet plans to avenge the murder of boy-king King Edward V by incarnating two cats and sending them to London and then Scotland on a mission to kill his murderer at the exact spot that he met his untimely death.

Set

Literature
  • In American Gods, Set is mentioned to have retired in San Francisco in 1906, the time of the San Francisco earthquake, hinting he was responsible for it.
  • In the Conan mythos, Set is worshiped as a snake god by the people of Stygia in the Hyborean Age. Set never makes an appearance in the original Conan stories and is referred to as "Father Set" or "the Old Serpent". The Conan version of Set also inspired the Set of the Marvel Universe due to Marvel acquiring the rights to Conan in the early 1970s and incorporated Conan's Hyborian Age into the prehistoric days of Earth. However the Hydra-headed snake deity depiction of this god owes little to the Egyptian Set as this version is one of the Elder Gods of Earth within the Marvel Universe and is billions of years old.
  • The Egyptian Gods have made occasional appearances within comic books published by Marvel, including Set, though his name is spelled "Seth" to differentiate him from the Elder God of the same name. He's much closer to the Egyptian deity in that he's associated with darkness, chaos and death.
  • In Soldier of Sidon, a novel by Gene Wolfe, Set plays a major role in the journey of a Roman soldier in ancient Egypt.
  • In Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny, Set is captured by Anubis who erases his memory and sends him to kill Thoth.
  • In The World of the Guardians book series by S.K. Whiteside Set is portrayed as the primary villain of the series.
  • In the Dark Hunter book series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Set is the father of Bathymaas.
  • In The Line Madder by Jenna Blackmore, the protagonist Seth is based on Set, with the ability to transform into the sha, or Set animal.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the antagonist Alessi had a Stand named Sethan, which is named after Set. In the vein of Set being the reason why the moon darkens during the phases and eclipses, Sethan is an animated shadow, with the ability to regress those it touches to young ages.
  • In Dennis Wheatley's novel The Devil Rides Out the Satanist Mocata seeks the Talisman Of Set to open a gateway to the underworld.
  • Seth appears as the main antagonist of Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City.
  • In Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan (shown primarily during the first novel of the trilogy The Red Pyramid) Set is one of the major antagonists and is based closely on the Egyptian deity.

Film and television
  • In the animated series Conan the Adventurer, Set is portrayed as an evil snake god who is the source of the wizard Wrath-Amon's powers.
  • In The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Set is portrayed as the supernatural antagonist in the mini-series.
  • The 1975 Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars reinterpreted the ancient Egyptian divine canon as a race of aliens called Osirians, creators of a civilization of near-omnipotent technological and psychic power. The god Set was reinterpreted as Sutekh (also known as "The Destroyer"), the most vicious, destructive and pan-genocidal of the Osirians, who was imprisoned circa 5000 BC in Egypt. Sutekh was also the main antagonist in The True History of Faction Paradox, part of the Doctor Who spin-off series Faction Paradox. He featured in a series of six Faction Paradox audio plays (the first of which, Coming to Dust, was released in 2004) which further explored Osirian society and also featured other Osirian characters including Horus.
  • In the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, Set (Gerard Butler) is the main antagonist. He murders his brother Osiris as he was about to crown Horus the new King of Egypt, taking the crown for himself, enslaving the mortals, and killing any gods who challenge his claim to authority. Unsatisfied with the station his father Ra has in mind for him, he attempts to murder his own father, and releases the demon Apophis in order to let chaos remake the world and claim dominion over the afterlife. He is ultimately defeated by Horus and a mortal named Bek. Much like his nephew, he has the ability to morph into an animal human hybrid, in his case a jackal, but can also incorporate the parts of other Gods, using a combination of Nephthys's wings, Osiris's heart, Thoth's brain, and one of Horus's eyes.
  • Seth appears in the Isis and Osiris two-parter in the Canadian series MythQuest, fulfilling his usual role as Osiris's killer.
  • In Mummies Alive!, Set and Anubis are secondary villains throughout the series, often summoned with other deities to cause trouble in the show. Instead of a set animal, however, Set is made to look like an anthropomorphic bull dog.
  • In seaQuest DSV, Set is used as a villain in "Something in the Air", a season 2 episode of the science fiction series.
  • In Stargate SG-1, Seth, or Setesh, is a Goa'uld. In the series, Seth has been hiding from Ra on Earth for thousands of years, using advanced technology and drugs to set himself up as the object of worship for various cults throughout history.
  • In the Puppet Master series of horror films, Sutekh is the primary villain, revealed in Puppet Master 4, to be the elder god who created the magic that gives the Puppet Master's puppets life.
  • In Tutenstein, Set is the villain of the series, repeatedly trying to steal Tut's Scepter of Was to rule the Underworld and Overworld.
  • Set, portrayed by Javier Botet, is a major antagonist in the 2017 film The Mummy, in which he gives Ahmanet The Dagger of Set to bring him into the real world through the body of a mortal. However, while her initial attempt to summon him through her lover fails, Set ultimately ends up fused with Nick Morton, the main protagonist.
  • In the series finale of the 2001 anime series Hellsing, a demon named Set was summoned from the underworld by Incognito. Incognito calls upon the power of the Serpent God Seth in his attempt to defeat Alucard and conquer Britain. Set appears as a giant glowing snake made of energy, ravaging London in all of a few minutes.
  • In the anime/manga Yu-Gi-Oh!, Seto Kaiba is regarded as the reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian priest Seth, who is representative of the deity Set. The same applies to Pharaoh Atem (Yami Yugi), representing the deity Horus, thus also highlighting the rivalry the two characters share, just as the gods Horus and Set did in Egyptian mythology.
  • In Samurai Jack, Aku releases the minions of Set and orders them to kill Samurai Jack in the episode "Jack in Egypt". They all appear to be stylized versions of the seth animal.
  • In the last episode of the 1988 revival of Mission: Impossible, the team works to thwart a museum curator who wishes to use Set as a part of his plan to revive the pharaonic system, with himself as pharaoh. [35]

Video games
  • Seth frequently appears as a demon throughout the Megami Tensei series.
    • Seth is an optional boss in Digital Devil Saga 2 after Shiva and Vishnu and before Satan.
  • In Nightshade, Sutekh is the villain who takes control of every gang in Metro City, combining them into one.
  • In Persona 2 and Persona 5 Set is a persona of the Tower Arcana.
  • In Persona 3 and Persona 4, Seth is a persona of the Moon Arcana.
  • In Phantasy Star IV, Seth was the name used by Dark Force when he assumed human form. He joins the party when they arrive on the island east of Krup on Motavia, claiming to be an archaeologist. When the party reaches the temple, he turns back into demonic form and attacks the party.
  • In PowerSlave, Set is a boss character depicted as a horrible demonic being.
  • In Secret of Evermore, the Son of Set is an enemy
  • In Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, Lord Set is the enemy and the main villain. His physical appearance is a tall, dark, elegant, somewhat evil wizard; his eyes and teeth resemble a snake. Patient, ruthless, sinister, sophisticated and very intelligent, he could mimic the forms of others. Later he reveals his real god form: a powerful humanoid giant snake.
  • In Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Set possessed Werner Von Croy and he was also the final boss.
  • In Vampire: the Masquerade, One of the 13 clans is known as the Followers of Set and claim to be descended from the god Set.
  • In Pharaoh, Seth is one of the five gods that can be worshipped in-game.
  • In Age of Mythology and Age of Empires: Mythologies, Set is one of three major gods that can be worshiped by Egyptian players. When this is the case, players can turn huntable animals into units for combat and scouting, and ranged units are trained faster and are stronger. In the game's campaign, Set, through his mortal puppet Kemsyt, works with Poseidon and Loki to free the Titans. The player, in the role of the Atlantean hero Arkantos, must stop Set's followers and re-unify the pieces of Osiris.
  • In Endless Ocean: Blue World, Set, Isis, Osiris, and Nephthys are featured in the Cavern of the Gods.
  • In The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid, Set is the true villain of the game, released by Sir Alistar Loveless III. Loveless intended to be Set's master and use him to rule the world, but Set turned on Loveless and his goons. With enhanced powers granted to the Cluefinders by other Egyptian gods, the title group reseals Set back in his prison.
  • In Smite, Set and Horus were made playable characters, in April 2019. Set gains the title of "The Usurper" in reference to his murder of Osiris. He is classed as an assassin, and focuses on single-target burst damage. Able to command sand clones to attack enemies, Set also has high mobility as he can teleport to these clones at any time. He can also summon a sandstorm around his character, damaging enemies and causing their screens to fill up with sand. These abilities fit into his mythological role as a god of the desert. Set's murder is also referenced in his ultimate, Kingslayer, which allows Set to focus down and kill a single target with multiple buffs, including a movement speed buff, an uncapped, stacking attack speed buff, a buff that allows his attacks to affect nearby gods, self-healing and the ability to summon many more of his sand clones. His kit makes him a potent asset to any team when it comes to diving back-line gods and finishing them off quickly. Interestingly, he gets one stack on his passive if he attacks an enemy god, but if his target is Horus, he gains two stacks per hit, reflecting the pair's fierce rivalry.

Music
  • Set is referenced by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth on some of their concept albums. He is often referred to as Set Abominae in their Egyptian mythology-based concept albums and comic book.
  • Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth has a song entitled "Sculpting the Throne of Seth".
  • Greek metal band Septic Flesh have a song on their second album entitled The Eyes of Set. Additionally, vocalist/bassist Spiros Antoniou is often referred to as "Seth".
  • The Swedish sympho metal band Therion has a song "In the Desert of Set" on their 1996 album Theli.
  • The gothic/doom metal band The Vision Bleak have a song entitled By Our Brotherhood With Seth.
  • Norwegian black metal band 1349 has an album entitled Demonoir which features an ambient song entitled The Tunnel of Set, which is broken down into 7 small tracks. Additionally, other songs on the album such The Devil of the Deserts contain vague references to Set.
  • The American Ancient Egyptian themed death metal band Nile reference Set in their song "Black Hand of Set" on the album In the Beginning.

Sobek
  • In the videogame Assassin's Creed: Origins, Sobek features as one of three gods that the player can fight in the "Trial of the Gods" limited time events.[36][37][38]
  • In the 2017 videogame Horizon Zero Dawn by Guerrilla Games, a prominent scientist involved in the life-saving Zero Dawn project is named Elizabet Sobeck.
  • In the 1995-1997 comic series based on the original Battlestar Galactica the name of the last living, biological Cylon imperious leader was revealed to be "Sobekkta", a reference to Sobek.
  • In Smite, Sobek is guardian given the title of "God of the Nile".
  • The MOBA League of Legends champion named Renekton resembles Sobek.
  • In the Megami Tensei series, Sobek sometimes appears as a demon. While his first appearance was in Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, his most notable appearance was as an optional boss in Shin Megami Tensei If....
  • The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid features a brief appearance by Sobek as one of a quartet of Egyptian gods who imbue the eponymous Cluefinders with magic powers so that they can challenge the recently revived Set. Sobek grants Santiago enhanced strength and turns his skin a greyish-green, highlighting his crocodile basis.
  • Sobek has been heavily satirized by YouTuber hbomberguy in his video Flat Earth: A Measured Response[39], and went on to become a meme within his community.
  • Sobek appears as the monster in "Trading Chases", the sixth episode of the first season of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, terrorizing a museum that had recently acquired a sarcophagus. However, like other villains in the franchise, he was the disguise of a human, in this case, one of the professors who was trying to get a gold statue from inside said sarcophagus.

Thoth
  • Aleister Crowley's book on the Tarot is entitled The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being The Equinox Volume III No. V (see The Book of Thoth (Crowley)).
  • Thoth-Amon (also spelled Thoth-amon) is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is an evil wizard in "The Phoenix on the Sword", the first of the Conan the Cimmerian stories. He is often used as Conan's arch enemy in derivative works but the two characters never met in any of Howard's original stories. He was obviously named after the Egyptian deity Thoth and possibly has a connection. The god Thoth along with his Egyptian look is called Ibis and he is a lesser Stygian god who opposes to Set.
  • Thoth is also heavily mentioned in the Matthew Reilly novels Seven Ancient Wonders and The Six Sacred Stones. An entire language was created based on Thoth's religious omnipotence. There are also many allusions to his importance in Egyptian history throughout the books.
  • Thoth and the cosmology presented in the Book of Thoth are major elements of the plots in the King's Man trilogy by the Canadian novelist Pauline Gedge.
  • The computer game NetHack, which features deities whose favor the player must win in order to succeed features Thoth as the god of neutral (balanced alignment) Wizards, in keeping with his role as God of Balance and Wisdom.
  • Philosopher Jacques Derrida uses Socrates' "Myth of Theuth" to argue for deconstruction and the instability of Truth since writing is pharmakon, both poison and cure—that which puts play into play.
  • The Coptic liturgical New Year begins with the month of Thout which is a carry over from the ancient Egyptian month dedicated to Thoth. The first day of Thoth corresponds, currently, to the eleventh of September in the Gregorian calendar or the twelfth if a leap year Coptic calendar.[40]
  • In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, Thoth lives as a human called Mr. Ibis on the mortal plane in the "Little Egypt" area of Southern Illinois. In accordance with his role as judge of the dead, he works as an undertaker alongside Anubis' human embodiment, Mr. Jacquel (Jackal).
  • The current logo of Cairo University, which is the oldest university in Egypt, embodies the image of Thoth sitting on his throne.
  • The Temple of Thoth is the name of a pagan cult in The Magician's Nephew, an episode of Midsomer Murders. Apart from the name, no references to the Egyptian god are made in the episode.
  • Thoth is one of the main characters in Roger Zelazny's novel Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • In the game Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, the game's titular mecha Jehuty is based on Thoth himself.
  • The Cluefinders 4th Grade Adventures: Puzzle of the Pyramid, a 1990s video game for young learners, features Thoth as a non-player character. Thoth guides the eponymous Cluefinders across the "Chasm of Words", with the assistance of a pair of baboon statues.
  • In the Stargate SG-1 franchise, Thoth is a member of the Goa'uld. Various interpretations of the character appeared in spin-off media before the character appeared in the series itself as a minor Goa'uld, the chief scientist of Anubis
  • In the "otome" game series Kamigami no Asobi, which features various deities brought to an academy by Zeus to restore the divine's connection to humans, Thoth is recruited as a teacher in the academy and is also a romance option.
  • Thoth is one of the gods used by the Pharaoh in Miraculous Ladybug in the episode of the same name, though unlike other depictions, the animal used to represent him is a baboon, and while using his power, the Pharaoh gains time manipulation powers, using gold colored bubbles to slow down those trapped inside them.
  • In the 2016 film Gods of Egypt, Thoth is played by Chadwick Boseman. Boseman's casting attracted media attention, as he was one of the few non-white actors to appear in the film, with some suggesting that Boseman as Thoth was essentially an example of the Magical Negro stock character.[41]
  • Thoth is a playable god in Smite. He is classified as a mage, and is labeled "The Arbiter of the Damned". He is strongest when located far away from his enemies, as one of his abilities, Glyph of Pain, adds extra range to his other damaging moves, giving him more space control and safety than almost any other mage. He is weakest when behind his opponents in gold and experience, as he will do fairly little damage compared to other mages in the same situation. He has been a polarizing character, with some finding him annoying with his constant threat of damage, and others finding him weak as he has very little crowd control.
  • In Stardust Crusaders, the third story arc of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Thoth is represented by the Stand of the antagonist Boingo, spelled Tohth. In the same vein of Thoth being the god of knowledge and writing, Tohth takes the form of a comic book that predicts the future.
  • Thoth frequently appears in the Megami Tensei series. His first appearance was in Shin Megami Tensei If... as an optional boss that would instead join the party if Sobek and Hathor were in the player's party. In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Thoth has a chain of side missions that rewards the player with passages that can be used to summon a powerful version of Seth when arranged and the powerful Divine Sword.

See also

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