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Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses. Polytheistic Many gods Each god linked to a specific aspect of the culture Ex. Sun, death Gods believed to have created and ruled the world. Ra. Sun god Most important god of the ancient Egyptians. Helped crops grow

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Gods and Goddesses

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  1. Gods and Goddesses • Polytheistic • Many gods • Each god linked to a specific aspect of the culture • Ex. Sun, death • Gods believed to have created and ruled the world

  2. Ra Sun god • Most important god of the ancient Egyptians. • Helped crops grow • The ancient Egyptians believed that Ra was swallowed every night by the sky goddess Nut, and was reborn every morning.

  3. Hapi • River god • Very important • Inundation • Annual flood of the Nile • Water and fertilesoil

  4. Osiris • Chief god of underworld • Arms folded like dead • Holding staff and sekhem • The place where a dead person's soul would go to be judged. • The ancient Egyptians believed that a person's soul would have to pass a series of tests in the underworld before they were allowed to enter the afterlife where they would live forever.

  5. Maat • Egyptian goddess of truth and balance • Feather

  6. Anubis • Body of a man, head of a jackal • Helper of Osiris • Prepared the bodies of the dead for the afterlife • Key component of embalmment • Mummification

  7. Ankh • Symbol of eternal life • Key of Life • Key of the Nile • Often carried by gods and goddesses Isis giving Nefertari eternal life

  8. Akhenaten • Pharaoh from New Kingdom • Changed religion of Egypt • Previously Polytheistic • Many gods - Head God: Amun • Rel. Capitol – Thebes • Gov. Capitol - Memphis • Now Monotheistic • Aten – sole god • New Capitol - Akhenaten • Angered preists and commoners

  9. Death of Akhenaten • Exact succession unknown. • Nefertiti - wife (Tut’s half mother) or Smenkhkare (half brother) • 1332 B.C. 9 year old Tutankhamen took throne • Probably Akhenaten’s son • Son of Kiya (lesser wife) • Problem: Religious turmoil

  10. Pharaoh Tutankhamen • Raised Tutankhaten • Married half-sister • First act - rid Egypt of his father’s religion • Changed name to Tutankamen • Reestablished old capitols • Mystery surrounding Death • http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/places/countries-places/egypt/king-tuts-tomb.html

  11. Nemes • A piece of cloth pulled tight across the forehead and tied at the back, with two flaps hanging on the sides. • Kings shaved their heads but had a prominent beard.

  12. Headgear • Cobra and vulture heads were worn on the forehead.

  13. Obelisk

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