Ancient Egyptian beliefs..?

Question

List any Ancient Egyptian beliefs that you know. Please.

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Throw a lucky man in the Nile and he will come up

with a fish in his mouth .

Answer 3

they believed in afterlife .

they believed that a dead person would come back to life and use his belongings that he loved in his life .

they left a hole open in the tomb for the soul to travel to afterlife .

they constructed  sunships that would carry the dead to the sun where they would start their afterlife .

the Ancient Egyptians were religious .

they cared for afterlife as much as , if not more , than earthly life .

perhaps this explains why modern Egyptians are religious .

Moslems and Christians are deeply religious .

it is in their genes .

Answer 4

That the heart was where our memory and thinking came from instead of the brain

Answer 5

They held a belief in the resurection of the dead and a life in the After world for those who were judged worthy in this life..

They believed in an all powerful god, who had no beginning and no end and was self regenative.

They believed that the world came into being from the rising of the Ben Ben or mound from the primevel waters.

They held a belief that at an earlier time the gods and goddessess lived and walked among the people on earth.

They believed that the god Osiris taught mankind the skills of animal husbandry and agriculure.

They believed that one god or goddess could have many different aspects to their being, both possitve and negative.

Each aspect had its own name and was worshipped in a different manner.

They believed that the Nile river had its source in a mystical spring that came from out of the desert in a place protected by the gods so that no man could locate it..

They believed that the annual inuandation was a rreflection of the favor in which the gods looked upon the pharoh.

Times of drought or flood were considered to be due to something the pharoah had done or had not done to appease the gods.

They believed the rich black loam that was left by the receding waters of the annual inundation was a gift from the gods.

They believed that the scarab beetle was self regenerating and saw in its rolling of the ball of mud a likeness to the sun traversing the sky each day.The scarab would then drop its ball of dung which held the lavae of a new generation of scarab beetles into a hole it had burrowed out for the purpose,and a new beetle would emerge like the rising sun.

Answer 6

Religion was very important to the Ancient Egyptians. Their religion was strongly influenced by tradition, which caused them to resist change. "Egyptians did not question the beliefs which had been handed down to them; they did not desire change in their society. Their main aim throughout their history was to emulate the conditions which they believed had existed at the dawn of creation" (Pg. 81, David, 1988). One of the very strong traditions was that of Divine Kingship. Divine Kingship is the belief that the Pharaoh was not only the King (political ruler) but also a god. The Pharaoh was Horus the falcon god associated with Horus, son of Re the sun god. Later it was believed that at death he became Osiris, or an Osiris, and would help the Egyptians in their afterlife.

     Due to their beliefs, the Pharaoh held an immense amount of power. In addition, the priests in Ancient Egypt were also very powerful. When things were going well, the people believed the priest and pharaoh were doing their jobs well; when things in the country were not going well, the people believed the pharaoh and the priest were to blame.

     The religion of Ancient Egypt was a polytheistic (many gods) religion with one short period of monotheism (one god). Their religion hosted about 700 different gods and goddesses. In addition, it was not uncommon for deities to be combined to form a new deity.

Pyramid of Egypt     One of the more famous aspects of the Egyptian religious beliefs was their ideas of the afterlife. They believed the physical body had to be preserved to allow a place for their spirit to dwell in the afterlife. Because of this, mummification was performed to preserve the body. In addition, large pyramids were constructed as tombs for the pharaohs in the Old Kingdom. Later, rock cut tombs were used to bury the pharaohs. Click on the items below for more information about Egyptian religion.