Ancient Egyptian Religion: How were the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Worshipped?
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion incorporated so many different aspects; mythology, spiritualism, science, magic, medicine psychology and herbology. With so many different facets, Ancient Egyptian religion was completely integrated into the lives of every single Egyptian. The Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses made up a pantheon of over 2000, and they were all worshipped differently.
Some of the most popular Egyptian deities were Amun, Isis, Osiris, Horus, Bastet, Anubis and Hathor who were all worshipped in temples. However, other popular deities such as Ma'at, Seshat, Heka and Bes didn't have temples constructed for them, which meant religious observance of these gods was a personal and individual affair.
The complete integration of Egyptian Religion into the everyday lives of the Ancient Egyptians and the worship of many different gods for many different things meant that the disruption of the system by Akhenaten (a period is now known as the Amarna Period) would have been very upsetting.
Upholding Ma'at, or universal harmony, the Egyptians made sure to live a peaceful life in order to move on to a peaceful afterlife in the field of reeds. To move on to paradise after death, one's heart must weigh less than the white feather of truth on the scales of justice, but if its heavier your heart would be thrown to the ground and eaten by Ammut. If it was lighter, it would move on to the field of reeds and live eternally in an idealized version of life on earth.
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 What was Egyptian Religion?
3:16 How were the Gods Worshipped? Formal State Religious Observances
6:25 Disruption to the Hierarchy
7:35 How were the Gods Worshipped? Informal Daily Religious Observances
10:09 Belief in the Afterlife
11:22 The 'Gateway' Sin
12:53 Images and Attributions
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Do you think that the Egyptians vision of the afterlife influenced later concepts of life after death? Let us know what you think!
I'd love to see a video talking about the ancient philosophy of civilizations like Egypt, India, Aztecs, etc. They too had their philosophies apart from gods and mythology. Ancient philosophy is not limited to Greece. Just like Greek philosophy was given by philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle, Thales, Plato, etc., other civilizations also had their own philosophies which was not directly related to the Gods and mythology.
Quite, each religion influenced later beliefs, all seem to imply some sort of consequences to actions while on Earth.
Yes, in that I hold to the Tolkien/Lewis debate that concluded that God gave good visions/dreams to the pagan world, anticipations of the true myth, myth made fact, as Lewis put it. That good dreams cross-fertilise is axiomatic. Dt.4:19 can be taken as kindergarten lessons to the general world, merely forbidden to those in junior school: "And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don't be tempted to bow down and worship them. [Yahweh] put them there for all the other nations to worship" (CEV). My own vampire books incorporate the divinities of the ancient myths, such as Arattan, Egyptian, Norse.
I think the after life concept in Abrahamic religions was taken from Zarathustrian religion
@@siddharthabanerjee6155 gods have nothing to do with mythologies and everything to do with the ethnic religions they come from
Imagine if Egypt was a continuous civilization and this religion existed, how rich the culture would have been
Lots of similarities between egyptian and Greek philosophy
@@Mrm3t21 no not really
@@Texasmade74 there are a lot of similarities, Greece was more connected with Egypt than other European cultures
Oh don't even say that. Lol. I wish!
@@Mrm3t21 if you study the religions of great antiquity you'll find out that Ra in Egypt was Zeus in Greece and Brahma in Hinduism .
Technology changes but the human mind doesn’t, these teachings will always be relevant to us
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this video is so well done! thank you so much
You're so welcome!
Nice images are showing while telling the story👍🏼
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loved this presentation. Thank you for this great insight!
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Brilliant video!
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Good stuff, thx
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Nice video!
Thank you very much!
Ancient Egyptian religion bears similarities to ancient hinduism- vedic practices. Surya or Sun God was the main diety and his temple called Konark, which sounds similar to Kanark. There were many Gods who had human form, animal form or a combination of both. Hindus also believe in sacred plants, trees, mountains etc. Kings belonging to Sun dynasty or moon dynasty were also common. The Hindu goddesses are called Maa, much like Maat.
We hindus still believe in afterlife but not in the same way as Egyptians.
There are definitely lots of similarities between ancient cultures. Thanks for watching!
Love to listen your videos, make more videos of antiquity Egypt culture
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Well done!
Thanks very much! Hope you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing my lunch break. Your great.
Thank you so much, this helped me a lot in my 6th grade homework LOL
You're very welcome!
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Facts
And my masters degree in philosophy
Amun was first known as God of the night (his name means "the hidden one"). His later association with Ra, the God of the sun, made him a symbol of a full cycle of existence (life and death, as in day and night), thus he was considered to be the King of Gods.
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No he wasn't
The Egyptian pantheon doesn't function like the Greek because in Memphis Ptah is Supreme and in Heliopolis Ra is Supreme but in other localities Amun takes precedence
@@Texasmade74 I seek Salvation for the entity of Ra. WildsideRa is my main channel.
@@whitelightsafe2049 ok
😮 every part of it was 👍😉 lovely voice
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Good explanation. 👍 . Love from India
Glad you liked it!
Thank you very much for the nice video.
I have a question.
About the Book of the Dead (10:57), I have heard “If the heart and the feather “balanced”, it continued Field of Reeds” in a book and in a museum's caption that I read in the past.
But in this video you said “If the heart is lighter”.
Are there two theories?
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I think there are different interpretations. I just heard that there's no explanation of what happened. I've also heard that it had to be balanced. It couldn't be too light or too heavy which makes sense since Ma'at is balance. It also makes sense that it may have been eaten because Ammit is there but it would have been eaten if it was too light and too heavy.
Subtitles are mismatched after 4 minutes into the video.
nice
Thank you!
Pls make video of vedas
Hi! We have a video all about the Vedas which you can find here czcams.com/video/h-b-OpzXwcU/video.html Thanks!
There is a handsome new book of 224 pages with 185 brilliant color plates titled "Sacred Deities of Ancient Egypt" that illustrates in illuminating color photographs and detailed text the lives and beliefs of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. Many of the photos of the actual tombs and hieroglyphics have never been reproduced before. The book ia available through Fine Arts Press.
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Ronald Weasley!! HOW DARE YOU STILL THAT CAR!!!
Thank you dear for this topic
What is the origin of the worship of the god Amun in Egypt (of course I mean Amun, who symbolized him with the ram).
Please give me your opinion on the matter
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Where did you get ur spectacles 🙄
Balance must be obtained
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Closed Captions would be nice please and thank you for the deaf and hard of hearing people
Can you tell me how this civilization disappeared
We only had one god Amen-Ra. My ancestors were just honoring our ancestors and communicating with them same as we still do today. They also understood and respected nature.
Where is Seth?
I worship him. He’s incredible… he’s definitely cold & emotionless on the outside, but inside he’s so nurturing & protective… ❤️ do you worship him as well?
Who is the narrator?
Hi! Our narrator's name is Kelly.
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia she's stunning and intelligent to boot.You got yourselves gold in her as a narrator for this organization😊
I find it interesting that the Egyptians saw nonexistence as something to be feared. Their vision of life after death, a life where one would farm forever without pain and suffering, is indeed interesting. When compared to an eastern religion such as Buddhism which aimed to break the cycle of rebirths and deaths, and wanted the fire of craving to be gone; ancient Egyptians surely wanted that fire to go on. I am more inclined to Buddhism as I see life as a futile struggle, filled with boils. Nevertheless, I wonder how Egyptianized Buddhism would look like. Perhaps a Kemetic Buddhist would still try to get out of the cycle of births while still paying reverence to Egyptian deities--or devas to use a Buddhist term.
It's always fascinating learning about how different cultures and religions approach death and the afterlife.
I had to watch this for humanities class. Just saying i was here and i watched it
meh, im here for social studies.
@@locke735 same
Im here 4 humanities 2
Good for you.
I’m also here for social studies
Is there anyone left who is practicing ancient Egyptian religion?
Yes😊
It's a blend of national organizations and solitary Egyptian recons but there are a lot of people.Look up Kemetic reconstructionism
Absolutely! Lots of people all over the world still worship Egyptian deities. Not just Egyptian ones but from all pantheons
@@bennu547 nice
In part, many relegious INSTITUTIONS practice some of the beliefs. They just tweek it to their Favor.
Balance must be obtained 🙏
In my past life I was an inchworm inching along a branch enjoying the tasty green leaves until the fateful day when I was devoured by Robin. It wasn't until later of course that the robin hoodie Bowers me was my girlfriend at the time so because of that I had to break it off because that was too negative. However, it seems that is the fait for us for all the time.
Who else is here during online school 👁👄👁
You alone
I have no idea where my teacher is getting the questions from because it ain’t in the notes
I'm just watching for classics
same lol
We hope that our videos are helpful!
Tysm they were so helpful
Her voice reminds me of Lara Croft
I'll testify that I am spiritual
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Over 2000 dieties! that a lots of praying and candles to light
Not all Egyptians worshipped the 2000 deities.
Out of these 2000 deities, the Ancient Egyptian people each chose who to worship.
@@Manoatevarua your average ancient Egyptian still worshipped many Gods even though all 2000 were not worshipped by every single person or even in the same way
You do not need to worship EVERY god, just ones important to you or your town/city/state.
@@KajiRider1997 that's the beauty of polytheism
@@KajiRider1997 your right
What were the rules of religion?
@Bing Bong OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH
Every religion has different rules but polytheistic religions or ethnic religions don't have rules based on who to believe in or worship their rules are more about daily life,cultural norms,rules for things like that
Old religion have great knowledge then the christianity and islam .
Hinduism and Egyptian religion have a lot in common
Nope
@@Texasmade74 yes
@@Texasmade74 yup
@@prajwalhegde1843 not even.For starters there is no Brahman in Egyptian religious traditions
@@prajwalhegde1843 there is no Trimurti either and even though there are many triads of Gods they are never referenced as aspects of one God
When you say the Egyptians worshiped over 2,000 deities you have to understand the sarcastic approach to life that Christians and others apply to these cultures. No different than going through your day and listening to what "influencers" say as well as government people, and others. The difference is in those days psychics, people with what is considered extra abilities and scientists were the influencers.
#LIONSDEN
religion & spiritual is something personal. new world religions subeject kids in school to teachings before they are mature enough to make their own choices. free will :/ really !
Right
Some row the spirit in them to hell, she's not going with them, some row up a river
I love the Universe
Not all the bad things here are her, she will not be used by those who ruin lives forever, though they fall their own test
The Ancient Egyptian religion was Maatism, explicit self Consciousness, empathy.
Sometimes I wonder how many religions are not based on constellation stories due to the tilt of the earth during the seasons as they rise and sink below the horizon? I found this in Sumerian, Hindu, Vikings, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Hopi/Navajo/Mayan, Inuit, Ethiopian. Ironically, before the babylonian priests within the Jewish religion and roman pagan priests in the early christian church rewrote the new testament of the christian texts, judean and early christianity were the only religions not based on constellation stories. I'd love to know any other religions not based on constellation stories!
@@myNameIsNot- many Gods are probably all real at the same time
I hate to break it to you but most religions are not based on constellations lol.You do know what animistic beliefs are right?
@@myNameIsNot- there probably isn't one truth that's the point
@@myNameIsNot- people for thousands of years had their own Gods and afterlives with no founders of these religious traditions because they evolved with the people's. The Egyptian Duat can be just as real as Vaholl or the Fields of Asphodel
@@myNameIsNot- are you a polytheist
And so that you know there is technically only eight deities
There are many deities in ancient Egyptian religion, although some are definitely more important/notable than the rest.
Sanatan dharma prevail in ancient Egypt with different name's of God which we are worshipping in today's INDIA 😊
But what was there religion? No disrespect but you need to go do some more studying on religion
I bet if the Egyptians knew that there were more grassy lands that looked so beautiful, they would just go "screw this land ima go get myself some grass, cya gods!!" XD
But seriously it is amazing and I do think that these gods probably existed in some way and probably still do
"The gods are but names for the forces of nature themselves."
There's a few over simplifications and not taking into account the 3,000 years of history (For example, the God's Wife of Amun only comes into being in the Later New Kingdom if I recall properly)
Another thing not entirely accurate is that the people of Egypt were NOT encouraged to visit temples, most Egyptians (peasants) would only get to see the front pylon, maybe some exterior walls, and rarely might get access to the open courtyard. Access to temples were restricted to the priests.
It's also not true that "priests and priestesses were allowed to enter the sanctuary", Only certain types of priests, the high-up priests would have access to the shrine in the Holy of Holies, as we have writings from some Wab Priests (the lowest form of priest) who made a specific mention that they were allowed to enter or be near the shrine, suggesting it was not routine for them or people of their rank to gain access
Thanks for your feedback.
Ancient Africans didn’t have slaves nor prisons.
Believe Gods and goddesses is real Queens and Kings
Amun is the real creator the only one
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Amman it's how his name is properly
Thanks for watching.
Nice Egyptian images. She's not hard to look at either.
Really yo? Grow up a bit, yea?
Hard to believe
Then go read a book or documentary about this if you don’t believe her
Sounds extremely ignorant
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 I am so sorry for the men
Very many similarities with hinduism
Interesting, right? Thanks for watching! 🙂
Ms Kelly, you're hot! 😉 Ok, really... There is a dagger that was found in King Tut's tomb, made of folded meteorite iron (an awesome feat!) Has another similar dagger, or other folded metal item been found?🤔 Thank you
All this is great yet it is kind of out of place that you talk about it as absolute truth when IN FACT they just speculations since nobody alive lived with them so to know exactly what they did and how they thought is IMPOSSIBLE. This is the deep problem of modern mankind they believe to know everything and it is all in their heads¡
We're lucky enough to have many primary sources and lots of evidence from ancient Egypt, which helps us form our knowledge.
Egyptian : We have 2000 gods
Hindus : noob
Throw the hole video away, you should have used the proper names not the Greek Roman names.
Same deities though
"But Aaron's snake (rod turned into a snake) ate up all the other snakes (rods belonging to Pharaoh's magicians)".
Praise be to the God of Abraham, so extremely superior to witchcraft & sorcery.
Thanks for watching!
Did you know that they are not egyptians
The name egyptous is made up by Greek historians.
They called themselves as Kemetians from kemet land and not egypt.
Not all the Egyptians used the same name to refer to their country but most of them did call it kemt ...
Which means the black land ... And never called them selves kemmties
You don't seem to know history because there are no records of the Egyptians calling themselves the "Kemetians" lol but yes the name of Egypt is originally Kemet.But the Greeks didn't speak or understand Egyptian/Kemetic language at first so Alexander called Kemet by the name of Egypt
@@arafahmohamed144 yes it means the Black Land but that name has nothing to do with skin color
Egyptians are Creole.
No they aren't and there are published DNA findings on them that shows they aren't
لا!
@@Texasmade74 I'm from Egypt and we Creoles.
How is being from Egypt prove you’re right?😹 There’s published DNA evidence that say you’re 1000% wrong
Egyptians did not have slaves.
They most certainly did - especially the royals.
You mean black people have their own history and stories ?? that Egypt is at the tip of North Africa ? There is no need for them to steal or reboot tradial European charters .Because they have their own unique and yet equally interesting culture that they fail too explore on their own. Why one might say you could do a series television shows called "The Pharos " based off Egyptian culture and Gods ? ....No way !
That sounds far from the truth.
How so?
she sounds so patronizing
Your mother
That was a fraudulent statue of Amun.
Which one?
@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia Peace, the one with the very keen nose.
Egypt is in Africa 🌍 it was known as kemet civilization the Greeks came up with the name Egypt it's online look it up Ancient Egypt was pure African people period not Egyptian and Mediterranean dark 🌑 skin bs I know people who visit the museums in Egypt and told me that the mummies were pure African people period the art and statues and writing language is of pure African people period I look online and noticed that the mummies were pure African people period not this Mediterranean dark 🌑 skin bs
100 true facts 💯 facts truth
They worship the sun lol.. and they are not gods . They are neterus and meters . Meaning they are aspects or parts of nature . It's all symbology
Nope that's not what Egyptian religion entails
Read the book called "The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt " by former professor and Egyptologist Richard Wilkerson
You don't build huge temples,have sacrifices,and festivals to honor symbols
@@Texasmade74 "Symbolism and all its metaphorical valences provides the key to unlocking the mysteries of being."
@@thetavibes9021 lmao
WRONG WRONG WRONG....THEY HAD NO RELIGION WE HAVE SPIRITUALITY AND THE GODS ARE REPRESENTATIONS OF CREARATION...the people of the descendants should be narrarating not foreign people trying to learn.....so disrespectful
Anyone can read a book about this and learn. You don’t magically know this. You have to learn. Oh and most people in Egypt don’t give a shit about their history. Nothing she said was incorrect
Yes how dare anyone take a genuine interest in another culture🙄 It’s literally the worst thing anyone can do. Go home you’re drunk
@@bennu547 yes it was you people bont read this informarin1 is readily available. Smh
Spiritual, religion, all are same thing.
If you are saying that you're spiritual, it means you are religious.
Spiritual is modern word to religion
@@dayyanahmad117 WTF....wrong no its not....re-means to do over ligon...means to bind...repititious ceremony of someones interpretation....spiritual is exactly what it is spiritual... meaning self....
Only Jesus Christ is Emanuel,which means God is dwelling among us.And also the verse John 10:10.And also the holy bible verse that said I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh to the Father except through Me.💯💯💯
If only you could prove that
But you can't
And you never will
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@@KajiRider1997 they can't your right
Makes me feel sick