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Question

In three well-developed, complete sentences name three gods and their role in the ancient Egyptian world.







In two to three well-developed, complete sentences describe the importance of a pharaoh in ancient Egypt.


Think about the geography of ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom. In a complete sentence describe the relative location of Upper Egypt.



What is monotheism? What is polytheism? Did the ancient Egyptians believe in monotheism or polytheism?

Answer 1

Monotheism - is the belief in one God
Polytheism - is the belief in many Gods

Here is a list of the Egyptian Gods

Osiris
In the very beginning of time Osiris was king over Egypt and his queen (and sister) was the goddess Isis.
He was beloved by the people whom he told how to worship the gods and grow their crops for their daily bread. His brother Set became jealous and tried to overthrow him and become king himself. When participating in a feast with Osiris as host, Set began to describe a beautiful coffin he had, in a way that made the other guests curious.

Isis
He was asked to fetch it and so he did and this was just in line with his plan.
Everyone agreed that it was a magnificent piece of craftsmanship and Set told them that he would give it away for free to whomever fitted exactly into it. Since he had made the coffin himself it was measured to fit one person only - his brother Osiris. When he placed himself in it everybody could see that he was the one who would get i as a present, but the evil Set had other plans. With his brother Osiris still in it, he and his fellows quickly nailed the lid and threw it into the Nile. Queen Isis was overcome by sorrow and began to search all over the land for it, but in vain.

One day she heard that a wonderful tree had sprung on the shores of Byblos in the north on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where the local king had cut it down and built a palace from it.

Horus
Isis understood that this was the place where the coffin had come to shore and she went there in disguise. She got a job at the court as a hairdresser for the queen and now when she could walk freely inside the castle she began to look for the coffin, and finally she found it in a remote chamber.
During the night she managed to snach it and embarked a boat heading for Egypt. When she came there she hid in the marshlands in the delta. There she opened the coffin and took a last farewell of her beloved husband Osiris and began searching for a suitable place to bury him. But Set was aware of all this and was hiding nearby. When Isis went to rest for the night he snatched the coffin and cut his brother's body into fourteen pieces and spread them all over Egypt. Isis became furious and asked her sister Nephthys and her son Anubis, to help her to find all the pieces of her husband's body.


Set
They now started a nation wide search that lasted for many years and finally all the part of Osiris' body were found except for the penis which had been thrown into the Nile where it was devoured by a fish.
Isis made a wooden replacement for it and then put the whole body together. She now asked the sun god Re to make her husband alive just for one day, which he did, and they could have a last night of love together. The next day Osiris died and his body was embalmed by Anubis who thus made him the first mummy. Isis later gave birth to a son who was named Horus and she did all she could to keep it a secret from Set, but he found them and almost killed them in an ambush.

Thoth
They were saved by the god of wisdom - Thoth, and he told them to hide in the reeds in the marshes once more. But as before Set found their hiding place and had more wicked things on his mind. He transformed himself into a snake and gave the little Horus child a fatal bite.
When Isis came back she found her baby almost lifeless, and took him to the nearest village to get help. A wise old woman examined him and found out that it must have been Set as a snake who had bitten him. Thoth came to their rescue once more and drove out the poison from Horus' body and he recovered. He and his mother stayed hiding in the delta until he was a mature man and sometimes he took the form of a hawk and scouted out Set for the final showdown - the revenge on his murdered father. When that moment came they fought for three days until Thoth stopped the fight. They were both taken to the Court of Law in the Underworld and there they presented their versions of the story leading to the combat. The Court did not believe Set, who was sentenced to pull the boat with the sun across the sky forever. Horus now became the new king of Egypt like his father Osiris before him, and the good had finally conquered evil.
Isis put the body of her dead husband in a coffin and had nineteen identical coffins made in which she put duplicates. Priest from Egypt's twenty biggest towns then were given one each and could all thereafter claim that they had Osiris' tomb in their town. Thus many places in Egypt were (and still are) called Abusir - the place of Osiris.

Answer 2

Osiris was the king of all the Egyptian gods and was responsible for the fertility of the Nile. Isis was Osiris's wife and their son was Horus.
The Pharaoh was the Egyptian king and was thought to be both devine and human. He was responsible for maintaining truth, justice, and order.
Upper Egypt was located beneath lower Egypt (yes i know it sounds backwards but its true). It was located by the Nile (which is the only river that runs north if you need to know that too) in the southern parts close to Nubia.
Monotheism is worshipping one god (i.e. like the majority of religions now) and polytheism is worshipping many gods. Based on this description, Egypt was polytheistic.
Hope this helped your hw.....now just put my name on it and let me know my grade...:P:P

Answer 3

Ra, the creator of the gods and comparable to the Greek god Zeus.
Sekhmet the goddess of war and the eye of Ra, she was the creator of time.
Shu was the god of air, and creator of the earth and sky, and controller of the wind.

Upper Egypt was in the lower portion of the Nile if we look at a geographical map of the area, this is far south of where the Nile fans into the Mediterranean Sea.

Monotheism is believing in one god, such as christian beliefs, and polytheism is believing in multiple gods like the ancient Greeks, Romans or Egyptians.

Answer 4

I know the answer to the last couple questions! (I don't know the others though)
Monothesim is the belief in only one god and polytheism is the belief in more than one god. The ancient Egyptians were polytheistic.

Answer 5

Monotheism is the belief in one god
Polytheism is the belief in more than 1 god
Egyptians believed in polytheism

Answer 6

SL_SF is right, do your own homework!
Y!A was not established to help people cheat by hoping someone will post the answers; it was made to HELP people in a better way, if people couldn't do it themselves!

Do a little research, and wikipediaing.. This isn't a homework help site you know.. By the way, mono is One. Poly is Many. That helps? There's a clue, now figure it out yourself, please!

Answer 7

In two to three well-developed, complete sentences describe why this is boring and why we are not going to do this!!

Answer 8

Help yourself! Do your own work!

The ones who are giving answers are not helping this student. He needs to learn to read and research himself.

Answer 9

monotheism- beilef in one god.
poly-is many gods.
& they believed in poloytheism.

Answer 10

Do your own homework - or you'll grow up to be an ignorant person!