Anubis was a jackal-headed deity who presided over the embalming process and accompanied dead kings in the afterworld. When kings were being judged by Osiris, Anubis placed their hearts on one side of a scale and a feather representing Maat on the other.
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Ben Davis May 29, Ready to play the Amulet Matching Game? Last Update:. In ancient times each Egyptian city or region had its own god and worshipped many others. Read on to learn a few general things about ancient Egyptian religious beliefs. Who did they worship? Sakhmet was goddess of war, destruction and misfortune.
She is an aggressive deity who is usually depicted as a lion-headed figure. The cat-headed goddess Bastet was the gentle counterpart to the lion-headed Sakhmet.
She was protector of the home and pregnant women and was also linked to worship of the moon. Horus , the falcon-headed sky god, was the son of Osiris and Isis and the embodiment of divine kingship.
His eye, or udjat sometimes spelt wedjat , was a powerful protective amulet. Rulers of Egypt were considered to be earthly representations of Horus so many falcon statues and images bear the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Falcon-headed Qebehsenuef , a son of Horus, protector of the intestines. The ancient Egyptians feared death and decay and protected the deceased by removing the organs and mummifying the body. Thoth , a moon-god, was the god of wisdom, maker of laws and chief scribe to the gods. He was also a guide and helper to the spirits of dead people travelling in the underworld. Artists depicted him as an ibis, a baboon or a man with the head of either of these animals. The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.
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No religion is fully formed at its inception. By looking at ancient Egypt, one can see how belief systems evolved to become the driving force of cultural expressions. In the early stages of human thought, the concept of God did not exist. Our early ancestors were concerned about natural phenomena and the powers that controlled these phenomena; they did not worship a personalized form of God.
This stage of religious development is referred to as "magical". I n Egypt, before the concept of God existed, magical power was encapsulated in the hieroglyph of a sceptre or rod or staff.
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