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T h e H i s t o r y o f E g y p t i a n G o d s

General Overview

The ancient Egyptian people worshiped the gods and goddesses they believed in, they believed in polytheism which meant ‍‍they believed in more than one god. ‍‍The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods represented something, so by worshiping the gods it was basically there way of saying thanks for all of the goods they bring. The ancient Egyptians worshiped the gods to the extent that it was seen as a religion. The Egyptians also believed in worshiping animals especially the Cat, ‍‍the gods they worshiped were Animal like, ‍‍Some examples of the main animal like gods are ‍‍Bastet ‍‍ the god with a cat head(there was more than one god with a cat head), Anubis the god with the head of a jackal and S‍‍eth the god with an animal like head and curved snout ‍‍. Some of the main gods they worshiped were‍‍ ‍‍Ra the sun god, Amun the god of creation, Hathor the god of music and Osiris the god of death.

For many years Heliopolis was the region ‍‍were Ra the sun god ‍‍took refuge because it was sacred to him, after many years there he had a family which consisted of ‍‍Ra, Geb, Nut, Shu, Tefnut, Osiris, Set and Nephyths. ‍‍

During the ‍‍new kingdom ‍‍in Egypt the pharoah Akhenaton ‍‍wanted everyone to worship ‍‍the god Aten. More than the other gods, he thought Aten was the only god worth worshiping, but when Akhenaton died ‍‍everyone went back to worshiping the gods like Osiris, Anubus, Amun and Osiris. ‍‍ In 539 BC Egypt was invaded by the ‍‍Persian people ‍‍ but ‍‍that didn't have any affect on the religion in Egypt because ‍‍ they still worshiped there own gods‍‍. But ‍‍ in 323 BC a <range type="comment" id="442928">‍‍Greek astronomer by the name of Ptolemy conquered Egypt ‍‍ with his army a<range type="comment" id="385525">‍‍nd by law the Egyptians were made to worship Greek gods to show respect, but they secretly kept on worshiping there own Egyptian gods, in this time the Greek people started worshiping the Egyptian goddess Isis, they heard about Isis from travellers and merchants that were returning from Egypt and coming back to Greece. ‍‍

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><range type="comment" id="92514">‍‍Over time the Egyptians started converting to C ‍‍hristianity and by the time the Romans conquered in 30 BC there were almost as many Christians as polytheists.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Around this time people were b ecoming Hermits, <range type="comment" id="116309">‍‍Hermits are people that leave there friends and family and cross to the other side of the Nile river and live there and entirely devote their lives to Christianity, ‍‍ <range type="comment" id="447519">‍‍as ‍‍ more and <range type="comment" id="339728">‍‍more people did ‍‍ this, people started do make groups called Monasteries and that started<range type="comment" id="174902">‍‍ Monks in other countries ‍‍. But in the late 600's AD the Islamic people came to live in Egypt too, and so the Islamic religion was a big hit and most people started believing in the Islamic religion, But for the remaining Jewish people that lived in Egypt they kept their Jewish religion.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">In modern day time all remaining Egyptian Christians are called Copts, but since about 700 AD the main religion in Egypt has been the Islamic one. Back then in Egypt polytheism was a really big thing to worship.

Why did the Egyptians Worship Gods?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Egyptians worshiped Gods because if they did so they felt the gods would be loyal back to them and bring them things like crops of maybe a victory in war or things like that. Different civilizations came up or worshiped different gods to suit their culture or geography.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">They also believed in the Gods because they believed in after life, and they believed that to get to the after life you had to pass through doors and each door was guarded by a different type of monster, they thought that if they worshiped the gods they would guide you through to the after life.

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= = Compared to Modern Day <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">In modern times people don't necessarily worship gods anymore, in other countries they might worship a god but still not to the extent to what they did back then. They worshiped gods because it was a way of explaining things like how things happened because they didn't have the technology or resources that we have now. They explained things like why the sun rose or how the earth was created by using stories about the gods.

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