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Title: Ancient Egypt


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Ancient Egypt
  • Gods
  • Worships

2
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.

3
  • The ancient Egyptians thought it was very
    important to please the gods and goddess.

4
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.

5
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.

6
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
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