In the country, Egyptians built statues, shrines, and temples used to worship the Pharaohs, gods, and goddesses they believed in. Many of their gods were believed and showed as half animal, half human. For example, one god Anubis, the god who watched over the deceased, had a jackal head and a human body. In Egyptian cemeteries jackals would creep around the cemeteries, so the people thought that the jackal would lead and protect the deceased in the Afterlife. Every day priests would perform ceremonies to honor the goddesses and gods. Before the ceremonies occurred, they would cleanse and purify themselves in the temple’s lake, the lake was very sacred to the priests. They also perfumed the air with incense and would also purify the shrine with
