What Was The Main Religion Of Ancient Egypt?

Question

Please only tell me if you know for sure, i need correct information for my project! Also, what was the main religion in Mesopotamia? Thanks!

Answer 1

The ancient Egyptians practiced a belief system that was part totemism, part polytheism, and part ancestor worship. There were numerous gods, but rather than living on an isolated mountain or in an unreachable heaven, many of them lived invisibly in the mortal world, acting through sacred sites, items, animals, or even chosen people. Furthermore, the spirits of the deceased, if remembered and honored, could aid and guide the living from the Afterlife



In ancient Mesopotamia, the facts of nature were attributed to the workings of divine forces. Thus, there were many gods and goddesses, including 4 creator gods. The forces of Taimat and Abzu, who had emerged from a primordial chaos of water, created the 4 creator gods. The ancient Greek story of creation tells of primordial beings who emerged from Chaos, too

# The highest of the 4 gods was the sky-god An, the over-arching bowl of heaven.

# Next came Enlil who could either produce raging storms or act to help man.

# Nin-khursag was the earth goddess.

# The 4th god was Enki, the water god and patron of wisdom

Answer 2

Main Religion In Egypt

Answer 3

There were NO "religion" in Ancient Mesopotamia.

They were different people, with different gods, different beliefs, etc

The idea of A RELIGION didn't come until much later on.

So, religion here means the "mythology, pantheon, rites and cosmology" of an ancient people.

(This is really a difficult subject to explain with ACCURACY.



Ancient Egypt was polytheistic, a belief in a plurality of gods in which each deity is distinguished by special functions.

The Ancient Greeks were also polytheistic.

Egyptian and Greeks Gods were all related to one another, like a family unit.

Ancient Rome picked up the same standard.

(Ancient India was also polytheistic, however, their Gods were had SOME , others were not related.)



The Egyptian belief focused on the "Divine Pharaoh", whereas the others did not.



(For a brief period, in the theology proposed by the Pharaoh Akhenaten, a single god, the Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon.)

In the fourth century BC, Egypt became a Hellenistic kingdom under the Ptolemaic dynasty (Greek), they added a god that half kind of half Greek, half Egyptian.



After Cleopatra, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire and Christianity spread throughout Egypt.

After that, the Muslims spread Islam.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion



Ancient Babylonia started out polytheistic but they completely changed their polytheistic pantheon.

Hurrians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and other culture groups.



Many civilizations shared some Gods but not the whole pantheon.



Ancient Semitic religion spans the polytheistic religions of the Semitic speaking peoples of the Ancient Near East and Northeast Africa.

Its origins are intertwined with Mesopotamian mythology.



Semitics include Hebrews, Canaanites, Levant, Assyro-Babylonian, Pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism and a serious slew of others.

In this group we actually have what is known as "Abrahamic monotheism", that grew into what we know as Judaism, and later Islam.

It was NOT called Judaism or Islam --- most of what you read in scripture had not even happened yet



Around 400 BC, very slowly did relgion as we know it today begin to show some definition and we begin to see break offs ....like Arab Abrahamic Monotheism and Isralite and Judeo Abrahamic Monotheism.

Also the developement of Zoroastrianism, which was embraced by many Persians, that of course came with them when they conquered Babylon.





It is safe to say for your PROJECT that MOST Ancient Mesopotamia civilizations were ... "Polytheistic Pantheons", that some were "Familial" and some were not.

Most Semitics were also "Polytheistic Pantheons", with the EXCEPTION of Hebrews and pre-Islamic Arabs that were "Abrahamic Monotheistic",

For Persia you can put "Polytheistic Pantheons", then Zoroastrianism was introduced.

Answer 4

There were many gods worshiped by the ancient Egyptians since the country was divided into regions (42 provinces) before the unification by "Mina", was all the territory of his idol's, living his temples, and make his statues, and to rally around in the holidays, has lost one of the regions (Falcon ) symbol of the power, and the territory of another Abdul (cow) code, righteousness and compassion, and sanctified team last sun ... and so on. When he was growing like a city or a country that was spreading the worship of god, such as the worship of the god "Ptah"Ptah in Memphis, the ancient capital of the state, and the worship of the god "Osiris"Osiris in the Middle Kingdom, the worship of the god "Amun" in the era of the modern state.







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Answer 5

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