What was the name of the religion that was practiced for 5000 years by the Ancient egyptian people of the phar

Question

I am not talking about a catagory like Paganism, monotheism, polytheism, anthropomorphism, ect. I mean like christian, Zoroastrianism, Shintoism, Judeism etc. what was it's name?

Answer 1

I doubt they had a name for it .. religion to those people was much different than what we see today. It was not "marketed" under a name. Religion was just life and "god" sat on a stone bench right up the street. While usually (not always) there was an element of polytheism to it the basic reality was that the pharaoh was the incarnation of god on earth and could be worshiped directly.

Answer 2

The religions of ancient Egypt had no 'official' name. There was the state religion that venerated Pharaoh as a god, and there were many other sects which venerated various other gods. What city you lived in determined what the local major sect was.

Answer 3

They didn't have a name for it, as it was the only religion at the time, and was universally believed. We tend to categorize it based on who was pharoah at the time, because the pharoah was considered god incarnate.

Answer 4

I don't think there was a name for it. They just believed in an ennead and triad, or something like that, which was a group of gods. I don't think most "pagans" really had names for their beliefs, though. If anything, they may have called themselves worshippers of Ra, etc...

Answer 5

Pharoah worship? Don't think there was a specific categorization.