Horus

Anubis (Anup) and Thoth (Djehuty) are both deities within the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) pantheon. As such they have similarities but also many stark contrasts, beyond one being canine and the other being avian. I’ve chosen to explore the similarities and differences between the two from a historical, but also modern perspective. As an example of a similarity they are both involved with the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. In this ceremony the heart of the deceased is weighed against the feather…

The manifestation of a deity in today’s western world is associated with an image with a human form but Egyptians associated gods with an assorted variety of animals as Horus was with a falcon and Wadjet with the snake. The idea of multiplicity of approaches was common as some deity’s had two animals representing them such as Thoth who can be seen as an Ibis and Baboon. Some god/goddesses had two forms to express aspects of their nature, angry Sekhmet turns into a lion but when mildly angry,…

Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most well-preserved and the only one we know to have been completed. Built from sandstone blocks the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller earlier temple, oriented east to west, towards the river. It was begun…

both of these similar religious systems throughout the course of The Ancient Egyptian and The Mesopotamian cultures. Gods of Egypt included Anon-Re (The Sun God), Isis (The Goddess of The Nile and Fertility),Osiris (The Ruler of the Afterlife), and Horus (The God that is reincarnated into every Pharaoh). While all across the civilization,…

Khafra was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 4th dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He was the son of Khufu and took the throne after Djedefre. According to the ancient historian Manetho, Khafra was followed by king Bikheris, but according to archaeological evidences he was actually followed by king Menkaure. Khafra was built the second largest pyramid of Giza. Some of the egyptologists also credit him with the building of the Great Sphinx, but this is highly disputed. Nobody knows much about…

Ancient Egypt Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians went about their normal lives. And they, like many people today, had a religion they practiced. But how did their religion play a part in culture? Their Religion… The Ancient Egyptians’ religion was polytheistic, meaning they worshiped many, many gods. In the early times of their religion, each town had its own god, along with a number of minor gods. Everyone worshiped these town gods, not just the inhabitants of the town. And as a…

Egyptian Life: A Cycle of Sunrises and Sunsets Present day Egypt is filled with pyramids, tombs, hieroglyphs on stone, and other relics documenting a complex religious history. Understanding a religion full of stories, family trees, and many gods and their relation to one another, is one of the biggest mysteries Egypt has to offer. While scholars differ on the names and purposes of the gods and their relation to one another, there is an agreement that Egyptians were searching for an…

in order. The individual's fate is left up to whether the heart is lighter and therefore pure, or heavier and deserving of damnation. The heart-weighing ceremony was believed to be watched over by the gods Osiris, Maat (truth), Thoth, Anubis and Horus. Anubis weighed the heart while Osiris and the others watched as judges. Those whose heart weighed the same as the feather moved on to the Egyptian equivalent of heaven-the Netherworld. Mummies were sometimes believed to sometimes lie about…

The Greeks and the Egyptians, though they thrived around the same time periods, were two very distinct civilizations with different outlooks on the way they worshiped their gods and leaders. Both the Greeks and the Egyptians main focus when worshiping their gods was to appease their gods and to gain the gods favor, both through daily rituals, sacrifices, and prayer. The Egyptians believed that to get to the afterlife that a person’s body need to be preserved exactly as it was when you were…

He decides whether or not the souls of the dead will have access to the afterlife. His son, Horus, reigns over Egypt and is in charge of judging the mortals on earth. This concept of judgment can be seen though the power of the pharaohs, who are portrayed as gods on earth in ancient Egypt. Besides receiving judgment on earth from the pharaohs,…