Should there be Eqyptian gods?

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Maelstrom
partytimeWould the introduction of the god Ra to marvel be to powerful for Marvel to handle. I mean there is no way on earth that Thor could stand up to Ra. Is this what marvel needs. A new sect of gods, preferably Egyptian.
Maybe Apoclaypse is the Egyptian gods herdel. hmm.
So would marvel rue the day of the approach of these guys? bunny raver
Sorry this was supposed to be a poll and now i can't edit it into one. I guess it's the story of the eqyptian gods in marvel. it may be to late for them.

radioboy121
Apocalypse is not god, but as to Egyptian gods in general, Anubis is one of the Skyfathers.

Maestro
The egyptian patheon already exists in marvel, but their not used that much.

Krissy Von Doom
Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, would be the Thor equivalent. I think Osiris is one of the Skyfathers but I could be wrong.

radioboy121
Yes, Osiris sounds more like it than Anubis. I never saw him in action, but only during the council during Infinity War.

norrin radd
and what about Ra and seth? do they exist?

radioboy121
Seth is credited in the classicmarvel site, but I do not know what comic medium these characters are coming from.

ScarletSpider
Seth is from the Marvel lore, he was a Thor villian.

As Maestro said, they're around, just not used. In fact, check out The Death of the Marvel Universe special series, or whatever it was called, with Thanos in it and whatnot. There's a gathering of Sky-fathers in it. Thor, Zeus and a good bunch more. In other comics we've seen gods from Greco-Roman and Celtic pantheons. Most recently, I believe, in the Marvel Knights Captain America run (Cap volume 4), I forget now exactly what storyline it was, you can look it up online for sure, we even saw a god of, and heard hints of more, on an American Indian pantheon. Though the series was pretty much a flop, it had some good points, and I enjoyed that particular story. It did reek of the usual "We were here first, so lets kill all dem White man. Red man best, ugh!" but wasn't that bad.

With Moon Knight, we have the Egyptian god Khonshu acting as an Avatar, and he has directly interacted with Mark. And it has been discovered recently, that T'Challa's "Panther God" was in fact Bast, a cat like god from Egyptian mythology, though the beliefs had traveled West into his realm in Africa and been morphed a bit along the way.

Krissy Von Doom
Seth has teamed up with Loki to scheme against Odin. Apparently he's considered as one of the "death gods", of which Mephisto is also a member (I assume also Hela, Hades, Anubis...etc) ... that story was a What if though.

ScarletSpider
Yes, Hades/Pluto is a "Death God". Obscure referrence, but in the first couple issues of Champions, he's seen making a pact with other Death Gods to hopefully overthrow Zeus. Silly Death Gods, golden realms of the mighty are only for Skyfathers!

Krissy Von Doom
It was quite interesting because Loki and Seth managed to put Odin in a catatonic state so when a council of the Skyfather's was called, of which Mephisto was strangely included, Mephisto, as a representative of the other "death gods", immediately renounced allegiance to Seth and that if any action was taken against Seth, the other "death gods" wouldn't intervene. Apparently the death gods look after each other, to a point.

Tron
This should be in the Comic Movie Forum, I think. huh

Havoc470
they were hinted at in the moon knight comics, dont know if they played much parts in anything else

eleveninches
THe most powerful of egyptian pantheon gods (in order of power in mythology):

Amun-Re
Osiris
Set
Geb
Nut
Horus
Anubis

Havoc470
yeah, amun-ra is the odin or zeus of egyptian myth

.......it feels wrong to say myth when so many believed in them at one point in time

eleveninches
no, amun-re is the creator god of egyptian mythology. He was the most worshipped, and was chief of the gods, but he was not the equivilent of zeus, as zeus is a 3rd generation god, whereas amun-re is a creator god.

eleveninches
horus:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Horus3.gif
seth:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Seth.gif
osiris:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Osiris.gif
isis:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Isis_Marvel.gif
geb:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Geb.gif
nut:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Nut.gif
akhenaten:
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/divers/Akhenaten.gif

Havoc470
He is believed to be the physical father of all Pharaohs, king of the gods of egypt and patron of the pharaohs, originally a god of fertility, a local deity of Memphis, Amun became linked with the sun god Re through the royal family, becoming Amun-Re

nowhere is he believed of being a creator god, Amun was the god of fertility and Ra was the sun god, then they merged as one becoming amun-re

EDIT: akhenaten was also never actually a god, but a pharoah who many egyptians believed to be evil because he only believed in the sun god Ra and destroyed any existence of the other gods like statues or sacred temples

eleveninches
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/Avengers/hercules/olympe.htm
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/Avengers/thor/asgard.htm

Havoc470
lmao, those things are great

eleveninches
Akhenaten claimed himself to be a god, and for a short while during his reign, he and his wife took the place of geb and nut in the egyptian pantheon. He moved the capital of egypt to a new city in the middle of the desert and banned all other gods except for the sun god (or arten), and made his subjects worship himself and his wife as though they were gods. The city and religious reform was abandonned when he died, and he was erased from almost all egyptian records.

I was watching a history program before, and im sure that they mentionned amun-re as a creator god. THe egyptian creation myth is that he was masturbating, and ejeculated the universe into existance.

ScarletSpider
Originally they were just hints and vague mystical forces. In his most recent mini-series, and in his guest appearance in Black Panther's series, he has directly communed with Khonshu.

Paola
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