Or did they believe 100 percent in their gods? What evidence do we have to support this? I want factual answers, I don't wanna hear rants about false gods.
2007-10-28 21:13:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They simply anthropomorphized (personified) the hands that feed them, most importantly, the sun. They never looked at them as myths, they looked at them as providers of warmth and harvest.
2007-10-28 21:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by raffy_09 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the following extract ....
Before concluding this topic it will be better to look into another picture of God identified in the shape of Sun. Aten named Egyptian god was originally a more purified aspect of Ra (Ra or Re is the Sun god of Egyptian mythology and was considered the primal creator deity and controller of the universe who brought into being the other gods Shu and Tefnet, and from whose tears the first human beings were formed. He is depicted as a man with the head of a hawk, and his chief symbols were the sun disc and the obelisk). And Akhenaton (Egyptian Pharaoh, the last important ruler of the 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom and he ruled 1353-1337 bc, he was son of Amenhotep III and Tiy and husband of Nefertiti, whose beauty is known through contemporary portrait busts) proclaimed Aten as the supreme and only god. He was represented as a solar disc with long rays terminating in hands. He believed Aten to be a universal, omnipresent spirit and the sole creator of the universe. And scholars credit him being the first recorded monotheist believer, because the Hebrew prophets preached about the universal God seven or eight centuries later in the land that Akhenaton once ruled. He is regarded as an eccentric monotheist by the critics because after he established the new religion he changed his name from the royal designation Amenhotep IV (a pharaoh with absolute power) to Akhenaton, meaning “Aten is satisfied”. He moved his capital from Thebes to Akhetaton (now the site of Tell el-Amarna), a new city devoted to the celebration of Aten, and he ordered the obliteration of all traces of the polytheistic religion of his ancestors. He also fought bitterly against the powerful priests who attempted to maintain the worship of the state god Amon, or Amen. A new religious literature was also developed but this proved a short-lived move toward monotheism. This blossoming of this culture, however, did not continue after Akhenaton's death. His son-in-law, Tutankhamen, moved the capital back to Thebes, restored the old polytheistic religion, and Egyptian art once more became ritualized.
2007-10-28 21:35:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they believed they were myths they would have been stupid to worship them. Most egyptians were intelligent and well educated.
I'm sure to some (like some who CLAIM to be a christian) that it was little more than tradition and/or superstition except when their god's help was needed. But overall it wouldn't have made sense to worship something you didn't believe in whether it was right or wrong.
2007-10-28 21:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by syllylou77 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were 100% behind their Gods. As far as they were concerned it was fact. Bear in mind they did not have the technology, knowledge or scope of the universe that we have today. The only eveidence they had was the immediate world and the stars, moon and sun.
They persecuted the Jews for believing in 1 God because as far as they were concerned, the Jews were wrong and therefore not of God's people. And vice versa of course, the Jews saw the Egyptians as heathens.
2007-10-28 21:19:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Myths become myths when that which they attempted to explain is explained by science.
The christian myth will in time be considered a myth, yet today there are those who actually believe it.
2007-10-28 21:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has now been found that the workers who worked on the pyramids were not slaves but considered their work as worship to their gods, one being Pharoah.
To do that you would have to be convinced that your gods were real.
2007-10-28 21:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am sure they believed they were true gods or they would not have worshipped them but they even saw the pheroes as gods
2007-10-28 21:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They believed their gods were true the same way the Abrahamic religions do.
2007-10-28 21:30:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
people who worship dont think they accept the opinion of others
2007-10-28 21:16:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
YEAH!!!'cause one HIT th' Spinks wit' a rock and what do you think happened!!! RRRRRAAAANNNNNNNNNTTTTT!!!
2007-10-28 21:22:16 · answer #10 · answered by hamoh10 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋