What Egyptian gods were the ten plagues by God attacking?

Plague Description

1 Nile and other waters turned to blood. Nile-god Hapi was totally disgraced

2 Frogs. Frog-goddess , or fretility godess, Heqt, was powerless to prevent it

3 Dust turned to gnats. Thoth, lord of magic, with the Egyptian magicians,was helpless to stop it

4 Gadflies over all Egypt except Goshen where Israel dwelt. No god was able to prevent it-not even Ptah, Egyp's creator of the universe.

5 Pestilence on livestock. The sacred cow-goddess Hathor nor Apis the bull could prevent this plague

6 Boils. Healer deities Thoth, Isis, and Ptah were rendered helpless.

7 Thunder and hail. Exposed the impotence of Reshpu,and Thoth, gods of rain and lightening and thunder

8 Locusts. This was a blow to protector of crops ,the fertility-god Min.

9 Three days of darkness. Ra, the preeminent sun-god, and Horus,a sun- god, disgraced

10 Death of the firstborn including Pharaoh's, who was considered to be a god incarnate. Ra (Amon-Ra), sun-god represented as a ram, was unable to stop it nor to save himself.

Answer

The ten plagues were directed mainly against the supreme god of Egypt, the pharaoh.

Some of the plagues were meant also to challenge and discredit some gods as i.e. Ptah and Khnum the creators of all things, the god Hapi, spirit of the Nile (the Nile turning into blood), the frog-headed goddess Hekt (frogs), Khephera, a scarab-headed god (beetles), Hathor, the cow-headed love goddess, the god of healing, Im-Hotep, the sky goddess Nut, who was the mother of the sun-god Ra, the locust-headed god Senehem and the sun-god Amon-Ra.

The last plague was not only against the Pharaoh, the supreme god of Egypt, but also against his son, the future pharaoh and next god Horus of Egypt.

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