The Hyksos' chief deity was dead.
Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earthErinyes, chthonic deities of vengeanceHades, king of the underworldHecate, goddess of witchcraft, she helped Demeter in the search for Persephone and was allowed to live in the Underworld as her magic works best at nightHermes, the messenger god who acted as psychopomposHypnos, personification of sleep, twin of Thanatos, his Roman counterpart is SomnusKeres, goddesses of violent death, sisters of ThanatosLampades, torch-bearing underworld nymphsLimos was the goddess of starvation in ancient Greek religion
 It was once common for archaeologists to interpret virtually every prehistoric female figurine as a representation of a single, primordial goddess, the ancestor of historically attested goddesses such as Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Cybele, and Aphrodite; this approach has now generally been discredited

