Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt

• Gods
• Worships

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Worship

• The ancient Egyptians worshipped hundreds of God
  and Goddess, each one connected to a different
  side of life or death.
• Beautiful temples were built in honour of the
  gods such as temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, or
  dedicatedto a dead king or queen.

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• The ancient Egyptians thought it was very
  important to please the gods and goddess.

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Temples!

• The ancient Egyptians belived that temples were
  the homes of gods and goddess. Every temple was
  dedicated to a god or goddess and he or she was
  worshipped there by the temple priests and the
  pharaoh.

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Gods and Worship

• The ancient Egyptians had a vast number of gods
  and goddesses, some of them are well known to us,
  others are merely mentioned perhaps only once or
  twice in all the ancient writings that survived.

• Some gods and goddesses were worshipped by the
  pharaoh and priests in large temples.

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Gods and worship.

• Some gods and goddesses took part in creation,
  some brought the flood every year, some offered
  protection and some took care of people after
  they died.
• Others were either local god who where
  represented towns, or minor god who represented
  plants or animals.

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Gods

• Maat
• Nephthys
• Nun
• Nut
• Osiris
• Ptah
• Ra
• Thoth
• Sekhmet
• Seshat
• Seth
• Shu
• Sobek
• Tefnut

• Amun
• Anubis
• Bastet
• Aten
• Atum
• Bes
• Geb
• Hapy
• Hather
• Horus
• Isis
• Khepri
• Khnum
• Tawaret

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A God Goddess

• Goddess

• Gods