Ancient Religions

The Egyptians mummified the dead because they believed the persons soul would leave the body at death and return. The soul needed to be able to recognize the body to live forever and therefore they used the mummification process.

The stone container of a wooden coffin was called a sarcophagus.

Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (Usually known mononymously as Cogidubnus)

The Norse didnt really practice it like religions or pagans do now. They worshipped through combat and seeking the glorious death. The creation myths and stories were passes down verbally throughout their history before the written word. Odinism may be one of the worlds oldest beliefs but the worship of ancestors predates even that. And by worship I really only mean that they asked them to watch over them and asked for guidance. That's basically all there is too it. Snorri's prose Edda is a generally accurate description of the the stories. There really weren't any rituals and other things of that nature. But modernization of the religion did spur a type of prayer. More of a battle chant to be sure.

Lo, There do I see my Father

Lo, There do I see my Mother and

My Brothers and my Sisters

Lo, There do I see the line of my people back to the beginning

Lo, They do call to me

They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla

Where thine enemies have been vanquished

Where the brave shall live Forever

Nor shall we mourn but rejoice for those that have died the glorious death.

Don't go into it looking for the real thing and get into the modern movement. It's really a thick christianization of the glorious history.

Edit: I know what I'm talking about, I'm post grad history student focusing in religion and warfare.

I don't know if this answers your question how you would like it to be answered but the goddesses of moisture is Tefnut

The early people of Mesopotamia were polytheistic (had many gods).

Both the Sumerians and Akkadians believed in hundreds of gods and demons that controlled various aspects of the natural world.

There were no real established religions when Mesopotamia was founded. The Sumerians had various gods for each city-state, and large temples called ziggurats. There were also smaller temples for offerings by the people. Some of the Sumerian gods were Anu (heaven), Ki (earth), Enki (wisdom), Enlil (lord of air), Inanna (goddess of love and war), Utu (a sun god), and Nanna (a moon god). The Akkadians (c. 2400 BC) had many similar gods under different names.

Native Americans believe that their traditions and ceremonies came to them directly from the Creator.

atheians wore many pieces of armor mainly a helmet, greave,breast plate, cape,sword, shield and a skirt of some sort

The type of metal was gold. They use that to cover there nails

Like priests in Chistianity, they acted as living links between Earth and the spiritual world. They accepted prayers, offerings, and sacrifices on behalf of their respective gods, kept the temples clean and sacred, and many were also considered oracles. They offered advice generally, but oracles were believed to see the future, and they're importance is illustrated all throughout mythology. U could ask the oracle anything abt the future and they would answer, but never a straight answer, usually in riddles and vague generalizations.

Oedipus' fate was foretold by an oracle, and the moral of that story was not to attempt to dodge fate by cheating and in vain.

The oracle at Delphi was the most popular, but it turns out there r plants and gases in that location that would have been intoxicating to the oracles of Delphi. Ancient greeks probably thought the oracles were chosen by Apollo and that explained the mindless psychobabbling of the ranting oracles, but in reality we'll never know if that's true, or if Ancient Greek prophesies and religion orbitted around a stoned priest or one desenting into madness from overexposure to the elements

Ancient Egyptians embalmed humans and animals and pets. Most famously, of course, they embalmed the pharaohs and the royal classes; however, there were several levels of mummification and anyone who could possibly afford one of these cheaper, less elaborate embalming process had it done, since it was necessary to fulfill their religious beliefs. They even mummified special sacred animals, like bulls and cats.

There were many gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt and the depictions of them very.

This is a question open to debate. Zeus was considered the head of the gods. Yet Poseidon had the power of the sea which was very important to the Greeks. Greece is made of many islands and the Greeks needed to travel by sea and fish for food. Poseidon could get angry and flood the land and had many sea monsters. Zeus had only his lightning bolts.

The Mesopotamians were the first civilization, so therefore, they "came up" with the first religion. The Mesopotamians were polytheistic, which means they worshipped many gods. The gods the Mesopotamians worshipped were based on the natural happenings, their harvest's, hurricanes, and they loved (especially) one god that they claimed "made" the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flood in the summertime every year, so the crops were extra rich from the silt in the water, which came from the mountains.

At first, Rome did not like Christianity because it was seen as a threat to the Roman Empire. Religion has the power to inspire people, which in turn may cause Rebellion. In 312 CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine realized that religion's power to inspire can be used to the advantage of the State and in 313 CE, he made Christianity the official religion of Rome, hoping to use it's power to aid in Rome's conquest of the world. Romans also didn't like Christianity because it was its own belief and Romans always wanted to have just one belief. Ever since Jesus came to earth and claimed he was the son of god, Romans never believed Jesus

Dionysus! (his Roman equivalent was Bacchus)

The Maya worshipped many god such as the rain god and the sun god, there were gods for agriculture and planets, they believed that their "heaven" was below ground, many cave in Mexico have been found with sacraficial bones and human remain. many rare types of ceremonial pottery have been found in cave, and especially sacred were pools of water. Some ceremonial caves have been found where you have to swim underwater to get into the caves, one of these exampled is were the remains of a young teenage woman was found with an scream frozen on her face.

Ma'at was worshiped throughout the Dynasties of Egyptian history.

Amun (Amen, Amon) was the ancient Egyptian god of "hidden" or "invisible" the secret powers of creation. Amun was associated with wind.

There are a fewEgyptian sun gods the most well known is Ra (also called Re, Amun Ra, Amun Re). The next is Aten (although he is not as popular as Ra) the sun god and sun disk .Last Bast the sun goddess. Bast is shown as a lioness as a sun goddess but is now a domestic cat and the moon goddess.

they began in order to honour particular gods and goddesses.

He ruled from his sun boat which flew across the sky every day

Depends what you mean by both terms. In Greek mythology, Hades was the place of the dead. Inside Hades there were three sections. 1. Elysia, where heroes enjoyed a blissful existence (like Heaven). 2. Tartarus, where the truly wicked would suffer and where the Titans were imprisoned by the Olympians (like Hell). 3. Asphodel, an in between place for the majority of humanity, which was unpleasant but not terrible like Tartarus. (like Limbo).

Actuall its more like: Heaven was Elysium. The River Styx and Wall of Erebos where more like limbo. The Fields of Punishment was Purgatory. And of course Tartarus was hell. As you said Asphodel was also like limbo. Now Isle of the Blest is different. There is no relation between it and any of the Christian beliefs. Also the book "The Odyssey" written by the Greek poet Homer mentons heaven and hell. It also mentions the Underworld (which Odysseus travels to) and Mount Olympus.so the anciet Greeks had many different views. Since both terms appear in anciet writtings.

Polytheism. They believed in many Gods. Re was the main God, he was the sun God. His son, Horus, was often shown as an eagle, his eyes were supposedly the sun and moon. Isis was a goddess. Bastet was a cat goddess,the Egyptians therefore worshiped them and if you killed a cat you would be executed. Hathor was seen often as a cow... but she is also the goddess of war and then is seen as a lion.