Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Hello, so I have an ancient Egyptian project focusing on their gods and goddesses. I have to teach my class on this topic. So what do you think is the most important point I should focus on. Thank you

For the ancient Egyptians, their divinities were extremely important; they had many Gods and Goddesses (over 2000!) and a very complex religious system. Many Gods were only known locally, but some were common to the whole empire.
The Egyptians believed that natural catastrophes were in fact a form of divine punishment, so they worshipped Gods extensively in order to avoid provoking their anger.
The Gods were often represented as figures with a human body and an animal head. The chosen animal represented the God's powers.
For your project, I would focus on the main Gods and their characteristics.
Amun-Ra was the King of Gods in Egypt, the father of all Pharaohs. Originally known as Amun, he became incredibly important after his fusion with Ra, the sun God. He was the supreme God, symbolizing life and fertility.
Another extremely important God is Osiris, God of the underworld. However, Osiris was also God of resurrection and of the Nile floods, which were actually essential for Egypt's agricultural wellbeing. Osiris apparently married Isis, his sister, but was then murdered by his brother Seth. Isis then collected the pieces of his body, reassembled them, and resurrected him for long enough to conceive a child, Horus.
Horus, God of vengeance, war and hunting, went on to rule Egypt and avenged his father's death in the process. He is represented as a man with the head of a falcon.
Isis, Osiris's wife and Horus's mother, was Goddess of maternal care and also took care of the dead in the underworld.
Seth, Osiris's brother, was the God of violence, desert, storms, chaos and foreigners. During the history of Ancient Egypt, Seth was seen both positively, as protector of Ra, and negatively, as the murderer of his own brother. He "shared" the underworld with Anubis.
Anubis, famously represented as a man with a jackal's head, was the main God of the dead before Osiris took over. The myth says that Anubis voluntarily gave up his position when Osiris died, and was involved in mummification and the weighing of the heart after that.
https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/amun.html

https://www.britannica.com/list/11-egyptian-gods-and-goddesses

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