1. Egyptian Religion

2. Polytheism  Egyptians were polytheists (believed in many gods, up to 2000 Gods)  Egyptians worked hard to make their Gods happy  Gods were usually half human and half animal  Believed that all of Egypt belonged to the Gods

3. Beliefs  They Believed that the pharaohs could talk to Gods  They mummified bodies so they could go onto the afterlife-you need your body after you die  All areas of Egyptian life were connected to Gods/Goddesses  Had statues of Gods/Goddesses in homes

4. Temples  Each city had a temple devoted to their special god or goddess  Temples had to be clean or gods would be angry  People came to temple to communicate with god  Only pharaoh and priests could go in the temples

5. THE TEMPLE OF HORUS

6. Ankh  Symbol of life and life in death  A lot of the gods carry one When a pharaoh is mummified one is placed in their wrappings

7. Cats  Cats were treated as gods  If you killed a cat you would be killed  Egyptians mummified cats and in the cat’s tomb they would place mice, rats and milk.  Made statues of cats wearing jewelry

8. Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

9. Re  Role: God of the sun  Appearance: Falcon-headed man with the sun disc on his head  Center of worship: Heliopolis

10. Osiris  Role: god of the afterlife  Appearance: a green-skinned man wrapped up like a mummy, wearing the Atef crown and holding a crook and flail  Sacred animals: bull  Center of worship: Abydos

11. Bastet  protectress of women, children, and domestic cats. She was the goddess of sunrise, music, dance, and pleasure as well as family, fertility, and birth.  Had the head of a cat and the body of a human

12. Isis  Role: Goddess of motherhood, women, magic; goddess of the South; protector of Imseti (the son of Horus who watched over the canopic jar containing the liver)  Appearance: Woman wearing the hieroglyph for "throne" on her head

13. Horus  Role: God of the pharaoh  Appearance: Form of a falcon- headed man, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt

14. Thoth  Role: God of wisdom, scribes, and writing  Appearance: An ibis-headed man, or a baboon. Often seen with the moon on his head in either of these forms.  Sacred animals: ibis, baboon  Center of worship: Hermopolis

15. Geb  Role: God of the earth  Appearance: Green-skinned man, with leaves all over his body and a goose on his head.  Sacred animals: goose

16. Aten  Role: The sun itself  Appearance: Sun disc whose rays end with hands, each of which is holding an ankh to symbolize that the sun gives life.  Center of worship: Akhetaten  Akhenaten knocked them down a few pegs by declaring that that all the other gods of Egypt no longer existed, and that there was only one god, the Aten, and it was the sun itself. After Akhenaten died and King Tut became pharaoh he restored all gods.

17. Anubis  Role: God of mummification  Appearance: Jackal or a jackal- headed man  Sacred animals: jackal