In ancient Egyptian polytheistic religion, the bird head belongs to Horus god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... Peculiar hybrid creatures—including winged snakes and a bird with a crocodile head and four wings—are depicted across the ceiling and are thought to represent ...

This deity is a combination of the Greek god Zeus and the Egyptian ... a human head. The "ba" in ancient Egypt represented part of the human soul and was sometimes depicted as a bird that could ...

Sekhmet the lioness, war god, she liked fighting ... The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a wading bird with long legs and a long beak).

A facsimile painting by Nina de Garis Davies of a 3,300-year-old Egyptian mural ... and slender beak. The bird hunts by hovering, hummingbird-like, above the water, head tilted steeply downward.