Egyptian Religion

 

  

  Egyptian religion was polytheistic, that is, they believed in various gods and goddesses, not in just one.

                                                                                                    

                                                                   

Isis y Osiris

The deities had naturalistic attributes from animals or the sun; half human (anthropomorphic) appearance, half animal (zoomorphic).

Egyptian religion included hundreds of deities. The culture lasted so long that many of these deities came and went or changed form.

RaIsis and Hathor

Anubis

Egyptian Gods

The Egyptians thought that there was life after death, or in other words, an afterlife.

The dead were buried in tombs (pyramids, mastabas, or hypogeum), some had rich grave goods. Thanks to that, we know a great deal about their civilization.

Sarcophagus

Pyramid Mastaba

Hypogeum

Grave goods

Ra• The Sun god, the most important god

of all gods• Isis and Osiris’ grandfather• Sometimes merged with other gods

(ex. Amun-Ra)• Man with a hawk head and head-

dress with a sun disk surrounded by a cobra

• Often seen with a barge

Osiris• Supreme god, first pharaoh• God of the dead and ruler of the

underworld• Also god of resurrection and

fertility• Taught early Egyptians to farm• A mummified man wearing a

white cone-like headdress with feathers

• Isis’ husband, Horus’ father and Seth’s brother