What Is Ancient Egyptian Faith

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My topic is to inform those who are interested in the Egyptian faith, to understand the myths that come along with it and to teach myself something I never knew before. People usually learn about greek mythology in school; for my part that was the only myth I learnt in high school, yet never the Egyptian myth’s. Personally I constantly wondered what the Egyptian faith was back in the ancient days, but never had the time to research it. I realized the majority religion in Egypt is Muslim and Christianity, this is very interesting to me due to the fact that once upon a time Egyptian mythology was a strong and helpful faith for the people of ancient Egypt, by virtue of being the first form of religion they had. My fascination all started when

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