Ancient Egypt Religion and Beliefs
Afterlife
- The Egyptians thought then when you died Anubis would weigh your soul against a feather, if your soul was heavier (with bad deeds) you will be punished
- The Egyptians would put everything you would need for your next world in your grave
- Preform ritual of "Opening of the Mouth" to have the dead person drink again
Persian Invasion
- Egyptians started to worship some Greek Gods as well as their original ones
- In 525 B.C.
- Greek people in Athens began to worship the Egyptian goddess
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Polytheism
Gods and Goddesses
- People believed that all of Egypt belonged to the Gods
- Often Gods and Goddesses were represented as part human and part animal
- Egyptians had as many as 2000 Gods and Goddesses
- Gods were cornerstone for Egyptian culture
- The pharaoh was the representative on earth of the gods
Convert over to Christianity
- Holy men and women would leave their families, jobs, and farms to travel beyond the Nile and stay there devoting themselves entirely to Christ
- By the time of the Great Persecution in 303 A.D. there were many Christians in Egypt
- By the end of the Persecution ended most of the people of Egypt seem to be converted to Christianity
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Religion
Worship
- The religion was based on polytheism, believed in many gods
- Gods and Goddesses
- Believed in After life=Heaven and Underworld
- Persian Invasion
- Some Egyptians began to convert over to Christianity
- Worship
- Mummification
- Tradition
- Agriculture
- Festivals and deities to help remember people
- Other than offerings there were spiritual texts in the deities names
- Temples built to worship State Gods were not open to the public
- Average Egyptians would choose the most suitable deities and build a household shrine for them
- Worshiped with animal sacrifices and people carried image of god from place to place
Mummification
Mummification
- Duamutef the jackal-headed god looks after the stomach
- Imsety the human-headed god looks after the liver
- Priest reads spells out loud while the mummy is being wrapped. The spells ward off evil spirits and help the deceased make the journey to the afterlife.
- Egyptians believed that if the body was preserved it could enter the afterlife
- Hapy the baboon-headed god looks after the lungs
- Qubehsenuef the falcon-headed god looks after the intestines
Tradition
- Egyptians did not question the belief
- Women and men in ancient Egypt were treated equally
- These beliefs were handed down to them (The beliefs in the other slides)
Agriculture
(Practices were written on pyramids)
- Red barley, white wheat, fruit, and vegetables were people's main staples
- Nile flooded annually from July to November
- raised cattle and oxen which they ate along with geese and fish
- Egypt was said to be the gift of the Nile
Sources
www.experience-ancient-egypt.com/ancient-egyptian-religion.htlm
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall04/hilton/earth.htm
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/story/main.html
www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/religion
www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/Egyptcredit.4.3.html
www.polytheism.net
www.localhistories.org/egypt.html