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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt. Gods and Religion. Egyptian Gods. The Egyptians worshiped more than 1,000 different gods and goddesses The gods were very important to the Egyptians The gods often took the shape of animals and birds that the Egyptians saw around them. Gods.

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Ancient Egypt

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  1. Ancient Egypt Gods and Religion

  2. Egyptian Gods • The Egyptians worshiped more than 1,000 different gods and goddesses • The gods were very important to the Egyptians • The gods often took the shape of animals and birds that the Egyptians saw around them

  3. Gods • The most important god of all was Amun Ra, the sun god • People believed that each night he was swallowed up by the sky goddness Nut. • The god looked like a man with a hawk head and headdress with a sun disk

  4. Osiris-Lord of the Underworld • Egyptians believed that when people died they travelled to a kingdom below earth, here Osiris and his wife Isis would protect the pharaoh • This god was a mummified man wearing a white cone-like headdress with feathers

  5. Thoth-God of writing • Egyptians often believed that hieroglyphic writing came from Thoth • This god often had the head of an ibis holding a writing palette, sometimes he was shown as a baboon

  6. Sekhmet-God of War • Sekhmet was a goddesses • The god looked like a woman with the head of a lioness

  7. Anubis-God of embalming and the dead • This god was in charge of preparing bodies to be mummified • This god is of a man with a jackal (dog) for a head

  8. Gods Lived in Temples • The gods lived in temples either as a statue or as a live animal. For example the city of Thebes worshiped a crocodile. • The statues and sacred animals were treated like princes; dressed in golden clothes and fed the best food • It was the priests duty to know what food the god liked and when they were happy or sad

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