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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

By: Jake Dezarn

Jennah EStenfelder

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

Zachary loschiavo

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

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