List of mythical creatures in Egyptian mythology

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• Abtu - A sacred fish.
• Akhekh - A winged hybrid and bird and oryx. ^[1]
• Anat – A sacred fish.
• Axex – A kind of griffin.
• Apshait – A flesh-eating beetle mentioned in the Book of the Dead.
• Medjed – A sacred Elephantfish that ate the penis of Osiris.
• Sak – A monster with the head of a hawk, the body of a lion, hindquarters of a horse, numerous triangular mammaries, and the tail as a fully bloomed lotus. ^[2]
• Serpopard - A monster resembling a leopard with a log serpentine neck.
• Sha – The Set Animal, a vauel caniform monster asscoated with the god Set.
• Sphinx - Creatures with the heads of human beings, used as pharonic symbols.
  • Androsphinx - A Sphinx with a human head.
  • Criosphinx - A Sphinx with the head of a ram.
  • Hieracosphinx - A Sphinx with the head of a hawk.
• Uraeus – sacred cobra symbol.

References

1. abookofcreatures (2021-02-01). "Akhekh". A Book of Creatures. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
2. "10. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians", Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle, University of Texas Press, pp. 141–159, 1992-12-31, retrieved 2025-05-08