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Ancient Religions
The legends, worship and observances of a god or gods of the distant past. Including but not restricted to the Roman, Greek, Sumerian, Norse, Celtic, Indian, Chinese and Japanese.
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What religions did the ancient Egyptians follow?
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which was an integral part of ancient Egyptian society. It centered on the Egyptians' interaction with a multitude of deities who were believed to be present in, and in control of, the forces and elements of nature. The myths about these gods were meant to explain the origins and behavior of the forces they represented, and the practices of Egyptian religion were efforts to provide for the gods and gain their favor.
Formal religious practice centered on the pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Although he was a human, the pharaoh was believed to be descended from the gods.
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When did the evolution of religion start?
We can tell from some of the cave art in Europe that man must have been practising religion up to 30,000 years ago. Also, some human fossils from this period were ritually buried, providing further evidence of religious activity. This evidence is described in some detail by Richard Leakey in The Origin of Humankind(1994). In historic times, the very earliest civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia were practising religion more than five thousand years ago.
How did Egyptian Gods and Goddesses effect daily life?
The religion of the Ancient Egyptians affected their daily lives through the belief that floods, drought, and successful harvests were caused by the gods and goddesses. As a result they would perform sacrifices, pray, and give gifts to the temples of worship, to honor the gods and ensure successful harvests and floods. In addition, many pharaohs and queens would boast that they were the reincarnation of a god or goddess. As a result, the citizens would support them and trust them to make decisions.
The Egyptians also believed in the afterlife, and that the gods were judges. They had Festivals for the gods, and shrines in their homes. Pharaohs dressed like gods, and built tombs for their preserved bodies so that they would continue to rule in the afterlife. Many of the Egyptian beliefs were recorded in the funerary guide, the book of death
How did religion affrct the lives of ancient eygptians?
Beliefs in the divine and in the afterlife were ingrained in ancient Egyptian civilization from its inception; paranoiac rule was based on the divine right of kings. The Egyptian pantheon was populated by gods who had supernatural powers and were called on for help or protection. However, the gods were not always viewed as benevolent, and Egyptians believed they had to be appeased with offerings and prayers. The structure of this pantheon changed continually as new deities were promoted in the hierarchy, but priests made no effort to organize the diverse and sometimes conflicting creation myths and stories into a coherent system.[144] These various conceptions of divinity were not considered contradictory but rather layers in the multiple facets of reality.
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How many roman gods were there?
* Jupiter was the Ruler of the gods. * Juno was the wife of Jupiter, She was goddess of women and fertility.
* Mars was the god of war. * Venus was goddess of love and beauty. * Minerva was goddess of wisdom, learning, art crafts and industry.
* Neptune was the god of the sea.
* Ceres was the goddess of the harvest. * Vulcanwas the blacksmith of the gods and the god of the underworld. * Diana was the goddess of hunting and a goddess of the moon. * Bacchus was the god of wine and partying.
* Mercury was the messenger of the gods as well he was the god of travelers and tradesmen. * Vesta was the goddess of the health and home.
Roman religion taught that every household had its own personal spirits, which protected them. * Lares were the spirits of the family's ancestors.
* Penates were kind spirits who guarded the larder. Small figurines of the spirits were stored in a small containers called the Lararium.
* The spirits would be worshipped by the family on special occasions where portions of food and wine might be sacrificed to them.
Why does the Egyptian god ra have an eagle head?
it is an hieroglyph it stands for what he was im guessing because every day he'd travel in his boat over the sky which means he fly's even though he never drove his boat he had drove for him he'd just ride along and they were pulled along by evil GOD's and he fought them and would win the battles against them so that th sun could rise the next morning so what does an eagle do it fly it fights so that it will be alive tomorrow to fight another day
Isis had a headdress in the shape of this?
It could be two answers to this question.
Her original headdress was a throne.
As she adopted many of the roles of Hathor, she is depicted with the horns of a cow with a solar disc between them.
Osiris was put in a coffin and set down the river nile, later on he washed up on the shore of Lebanon. Hope this helps you! :)
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Osiris may have originally been set upon the Nile, but as for his 'final' resting place, it is believed that he resides in Abydos.
However, depending on the version of the Isis and Osiris story you follow, the actual resting place could be anywhere, as in one version Isis buries his scattered body parts where she finds them and made replicas to place in several locations that became temples, etc.
Why did ancient Egyptians bring food to the afterlife?
the ancient Egyptians brought food to the afterlife because they believed that there was a second life after you died and they wouldn't want you to go to the afterlife hungry and nothing to eat.
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What are pre columbian masks made out of?
Mexican masks are composed of Horse semen, chihuahua hair and a dash of pig testicles.
How did religion affect the Ancient Egyptian daily life?
The religion of the Ancient Egyptians affected their daily lives through the belief that floods, drought, and successful harvests were caused by the gods and goddesses. As a result they would perform sacrifices, pray, and give gifts to the temples of worship, to honor the gods and ensure successful harvests and floods. In addition, many pharaohs and queens would boast that they were the reincarnation of a god or goddess. As a result, the citizens would support them and trust them to make decisions.
The Egyptians also believed in the afterlife, and that the gods were judges. They had Festivals for the gods, and shrines in their homes. Pharaohs dressed like gods, and built tombs for their preserved bodies so that they would continue to rule in the afterlife. Many of the Egyptian beliefs were recorded in the funerary guide, the Book of the Dead.
What religion do the vikings have?
They didn't have a name for it, it was simply their way. But the Modern day name for it is Asatru. True to the Aesir.
Google and Youtube it for more info.
Who was the emperor during the Golden Age of Roman literature?
Reading from literature suggestions include Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonious Pius and Marcus Aurelius during the period of early AD to about 200 AD.
(A+) Augustus
Inti was the god of the sun and the god of gold that's why the inca's had so much gold.
Who was the god that the ancient Greeks worshiped?
The ancient Greeks were polytheistic so worshipped many gods. Some of the most famous are Athene, Zeus, Aphrodite and Hades. Many of them were renamed by the Romans. For example, these four became Minerva, Jupiter, Venus and Pluto.
Which Egyptian god has head of ram?
There were several different and unconnected ram-headed gods in the Egyptian pantheon:
Khnum (hieroglyphs xnm) the potter who created mankind on his wheel
Ba neb djedet, a manifestation of Osiris as a ram-headed deity
Herishef (meaning "he who is upon his lake")
Kherti
Andjety
Auf (an aspect of Ra as a ram-headed deity with a sun disk)
Harmakhet (a ram-headed manifestation of Horus as a Sphinx)
What is the akkadians religion?
The Akkadian religion was an ancient religion in Mesopotamia, during the reign of the Akkadian Empire. The sun god, Shamash. emerged as its most important god.
How do you pronounce the Egyptian gods name Seth?
You can pronounce them any way you like and you will be wrong every time, because we do not accurately know how anyancient Egyptian words were pronounced.
Hieroglyphs only record consonants, not vowels (exactly as in ancient Arabic, Phoenician and Hebrew) - the people at the time knew which vowels to include, but that knowledge is lost today.
Many people pretend to know how to say the names of gods and goddesses (for example pronouncing Seth as Set) but they are fantasising and misleading others. The name of that particular god is written in hieroglyphs as stx (s+t+kh) and it was definitely not pronounced as either Seth or Set.
Isis and Osiris are both later Greek forms of the real Egyptian names, which are written Ast and wsir in hieroglyphs, where the A and i represent consonant sounds not present in English.
Bes, Geb, Anubis, Taweret, Horus, Bastet, Neith, Thoth, Hathor, Amun, Tefnut and Mut (and the names of hundreds more) are all very modern guesses at how the names might have been said - and all are incorrect. Those names are written in hieroglyphs as bs, gb, inpw, twrt, Hr, bAstt, nt, DHwty, Hwt Hr, imn, tfnt, mwt.
Scholars need to be able to write and talk about these deities so having more pronounceable names like Thoth (as opposed to DHwty) is convenient and widely accepted, but always entirely inaccurate.
They were: Zeus, king of the gods, god of lightning, weather, and the sky; Poseidon, god of the ocean (and earthquakes); Hera, queen of the gods, goddess of marriage; Demeter, goddess of the harvest and plants; Ares, god of war and bloodshed; Athena, goddess of wisdom, war (but only for just causes), and useful crafts such as weaving; Apollo, god of music and light; Artemis, goddess of The Hunt; Hephaestus, god of fire and smithing; Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love; Hermes, herald of the gods, god of merchants, travelers, theives, and any other profession involving wit; Dionysus, god of wine.
Why was the Greek Goddess Iris know as the Messenger Goddess?
They worshipped Iris in recognition of the virtues of kindness, as she was a mediator even for the Gods themselves when they quarreled. Iris was the resolver of disputes, a shape shifter to say the least, and also akin to a deep and dark primordial source of which here, I Dare not speak...
Sincerely,
A devotee of the Goddess Herself.
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Of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants.
Apollo was the Graeco - Roman sun god
there was also Sol.
Apollo is normally thought of as the Roman sun god, but also mithras (or Mitra) and Sol or (Sol Invictus) was worshipped as the sun god
How are the dead embalmed today?
The way that the dead are embalmed today is vastly different from how the dead were handled in ancient times. Now, the bodies are drained of blood and chemicals such as formaldehyde and other substances are injected into the blood vessels to preserve the body.
