Egyptians and Religion
Lesson #12
Check Yourself…. What are the two most
important things that Egyptians believed about the pharaoh?
What are nobles? Who was the vizier? What % of Egyptians were at
the bottom of the hierarchy? What are natural walls and
why are they important?
Egyptians = PolytheismWorshipping gods was
a DAILY part of Egyptian life.
Temples were built all over Egypt for the
purpose of honoring their gods.
Egyptian gods were thought to represent
things like the sun, sky and earth.
Many Egyptian gods were a mixture of human and animal
forms.
AnubisThe jackal-headed god
associated with mummification and the
afterlife.
Protected the dead in their journey to the
afterlife.
OsirisGod of the afterlife and the
underworld.
He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially
mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown
with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and
holding a symbolic crook and flail.
IsisThe mother
goddess.
One of the most
powerful of all the gods
RAThe Sun God
All forms of life were believed to have
been created by Ra, who called each of them into existence by speaking their
secret names.
HorusGod of war, sky, and
protection.
Horus was often the ancient Egyptians'
national god. He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man.
SekhmetThe
lioness goddess of
war.
BastetGoddess of cats, Lower Egypt and the moon.
SebekCrocodile-
headed god Of
fertility
The Afterlife Egyptians thought that the afterlife was an ideal world where all
people were young and healthy.
The KA was the life force of a human and when a person died, the KA became a spirit.
In the afterlife, the KA remained linked to the body and could not leave the burial place.
It is this belief that led the Egyptians to believe in
mummification!
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