The sun cult was a powerful religious force in ancient Egypt, according to LiveScience and peaked when Ra, a sun god, merged with Amun, the god of Thebes, and created Amun-Ra.

Dua, the ancient Egyptian god of sanitation and cleanliness, seems like a low role. In societies worldwide, taking care of toilets is sometimes reserved for those at the bottom of the class list.

The "ancient [Egyptians] had no death cult, and as a result, they did not worship a god of death," Egyptologist Martin Bommas, director of the Macquarie University History Museum in Australia ...