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J o b s o f E g y p t i a n G o d s    Gods were really big in ancient Egyptian times because they each had a role to fulfill and if they did the things they were supposed to they would maintain piece and harmony, Some gods took place in creations and brought the flood of the Nile each year whilst others offered protection to the dead or represented things like plants or animals. Some of the more important gods were...

Osiris

Osiris was the god of the underworld, He is one of five children born to the god and goddess of the skies, He was also one of the grandchildren of a very important god called Ra, the god of sun. He married his sister Isis, later and was the first born so he was expected to inherit the throne, even though he chose to marry his sister, it was not to be a happy marriage, Nephthys, one of his younger siblings once posed as his wife Isis, to seduce him and he made her pregnant and she later had a baby that she called Anubis, Later one of his other siblings Seth set out to kill him because he got Seth's wife pregnant, Seth lured Osiris into a coffin and drowned him in the Nile. Isis managed to recover her husbands body and tried to heal him but not before Seth stole it again and spread his body everywhere in the Egyptian desert, The bond between Isis and Osiris was so strong that she set off to find the pieces and after a certain amount of time recovered to body and used her special powers to fix him, The annual flood of the Nile is supposed to be the representation of when Osiris got tricked and how each year reminds him not to be so easily deceived.

Ra

The job of the sun god Ra was to bring light to the Egyptians, so everyday he would travel across the sky in a boat and he had to pass twelve gates, one for every hour of the day. By the fifth dynasty Ra was a really major god and was regarded as probably the most important god, Ra was really important to the Egyptian people because he brought light which was seen as power, The Egyptians thought Ra was swallowed up every night by the sky goddess Nut and was reborn every morning, they also believed that he traveled through the underworld at night and appeared as a man with the head of a ram afterwords.

Amun

Amun was also a very well respected god that had the appearance of a man wearing an ostrich hat and the face of a ram. At the height of the ancient Egyptains civilisation he was named king of the gods and was extremely powerful. There was an enormous temple built to honour Amun in Thebes. Amun was the god of air and he got married to the goddess Amunet but they had no children. When Amun and Ra combined forces they made a god called Amun-Ra and was even more powerful.

The Memphis Triad

Ptah was the chief deity of Memphis and his power and skill was craft work, he was portrayed to have a hawk head and he was said to carry a staff. Ptah represented the time when the sun rose above the horizon, he was regarded as the creator and built boats for the people traveling into the afterlife, Ptah was often wearing a skull cap and had a shaved head. he was especially good at stone crafting and wood crafting.

Sekhmet is the goddess of divine retribution, vengeance and conquest and is said to be the daughter of Ra, she was perceived as a woman with a lions head and a quick temper, her given name was eye of Ra, Sekhmet is one of the oldest known deities, her name derives from the word power or might. She holds a scripture that represents the symbol of lower Egypt. she was closely associated with the god of joy,music, happiness and sexual love, Hathor. She was also known as the red lady, the goddess of the dessert.

Neferetem was a man that was symbolized as a person with a blue lotus flower on his head, he is called the protector of two lands. Neferetem was roughly translated to the beautiful one who closes or the one who does not close, his mother was Sekhmet and his father Ptah, Neferetem was the god that brought the sun up into the sky each morning. Neferetem has no temple,and it was said that Nefertem had healing powers and in one myth he brought Ra the sun god a blue water lily to heal his wounds of old age.

Compared to Modern Day

In modern day we have science so we no how things work and why things happen, but in the Ancient times they didn't no how things like that worked so they made up gods and stories, for instance when the Nile flooded they made up stories about why that happened, or when the sun rose into the sky they said it was Ra the sun god on his journey to the underworld, so it is pretty hard to compare ancient times with modern day because the technology is so different and our understanding is so different to theirs.

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