What is the ancient Egyptian religion?

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What is the ancient Egyptian religion?

Answer 1

Ancient Egyptian religion

The isolation of Ancient Egypt and unique geography of the Nile Valley were influential in the developed into the often animal-headed local and state gods, many of which represented forces in the natural world which needed to be entreated through worship and sacrifice. The pharaoh played an important role as an incarnation of the god Horus and was himself responsible for the cult of all the gods. In the 14th century BCE Akhenaton made an unsuccessful attempt to establish Aten, the sun's disc, as sole national deity. The Egyptians were optimistic about the afterlife, for which they made elaborate preparations, including the mummification of corpses and building of large funerary monuments such as the pyramids. Over the 3000 years of Ancient Egyptian civilization developments in belief were balabced by a deep conservatism, and the religion was very tolerant of contradictory ideas.

Answer 2

The ancient Egyptian religion, absorbed many Vedic concepts including the creation begining from the form of Nhryn(Narayan) lying on the primordial waters. A lotus grows from His navel, and on this lotus appears the four armed and four headed Heliosphanes (Brahma) who in Vedic culture is the secondary creator, Krishna and the Vishnu expansions being primary.

Therefore, ancient Egyptian religion considered HR-Heri the origin of all gods and deities. That is why they used the name HR-Heri or Asu (Vasu) along with deities considered to be aspects of Hari.

Ancient Heliopolitan cities always had a presiding deity of Helios (Hari). He was always worshipped with His Fortuna (Goddess of Fortune or Shakti).

Some scholars claim that Akhenaton was the worlds first known monotheist ruler. However, the fact is, he was actually reviving an ancient monotheistic religious tradition. Unknown to most is the true nature of this religion. This religion was not only vedic, but was actually an indiginous Egyptian form of Vaisnavaism.

Research has proven Akhenaton's vedic roots through his familial connections to the Hurrian/Mitanni peoples. Most scholars agree that the Mitanni were a Sanskrit speaking and writing people and they worshipped the vedic gods. What is forgotten is the fact that Akhenaton's father, his mother, and wife were all related to the vedic Mitanni. Thus, it is no surprise that Akhenaton's religion has so many vedic similarities.

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Answer 3

They worshipped the cosmic laws and the laws of society, for they could survive only when organized and in balance with their environement. The worst thing that could happen to them was chaos.
They worshipped both obvious things like sky, air and earth, and less obvious ones like Ma'at - the balance/ truth, the pharaonic power, the life.
Most of their gods arose from tribal totems (lion - Sekhmet, falcon - Horus, crocodile - Sobek, etc.) and represented various occupations (hunt - Neit, arts and crafts - Ptah, etc.)
There is a large scope of literature on the subject....

Answer 4

Idol Worshipping

Answer 5

it didn't have a name at the time, but the current people who practice it are called kemetic reconstructionists

www.kemet.org
www.houseofnetjer.org