Egyptian Gods

Date Submitted: 12/01/2002 14:36:01
Category: / History
Length: 5 pages (1290 words)
Egyptian Gods The earliest tribal gods may have been fetishes connected with nomadic hunting or warrior people. Their gods became local god and were associated with agriculture. One of the commonest of the tribal fetishes was the falcon, which later became identified with the sky, maybe because the falcon was able to fly so high. Horus, was the most powerful of the falcon-deities, his people probably came from Libya and conquered large parts of Upper …
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…suggest that Nephthys' affair with Osiris was the reason Seth hated and murdered him. Anubis was worshipped as the inventor of embalming, who has embalmed the dead Osiris and therefore helping to preserve him that he might live again. Anubis also monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from deception and eternal death. Symbols-jackel, embalming equipment, flail, flags. These different,unique Egyptian gods are Egyptian myhology. email me at a_coolguy56@yahoo.com
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