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Thoth
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male, scribal god and the inventor of writing(depicted as an ibis or a baboon)
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Ma'at
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goddess of truth and order(depicted as a feather, or a woman wearing a feather)
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Ziggurat
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c. 2200 B.C. a monumental stepped building signifying a mountain, place for worship/sacrifice
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Step Pyramid
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c.2600 B.C. also a monumental stepped building, for burial purposes
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Figure 3.3 Hunifer
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Papyrus of Hunifer: the god Thoth at the last judgement c. 1200 B.C. shows the god Anubis guiding a dead man to his final judgment, heart weighed against feather of Ma'at, Amamet and Thoth await decision of a moral life, Osiris oversees with other squatting gods
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Figure 3.8 Imhotep
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Imhotep, Step Pyramid of King Zoser, Saqqara, Egypt, c2600 B.C. Limestone
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Figure 3.9 3 pyramids
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c. 2600-2100 B.C. Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, Giza, Egypt, 3 pharoahs
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Amamet
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Devil god, dog like
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email art
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Akhenaten and His Family c. 1355 B.C., limestone, demonstrates how everything changed in during his reign
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