Egyptian mythology by kay

The Egyptian deity Set/Seth

k37528745 — 2024-12-05 03:24:02 UTC

The Egyptian deity Seth, one of the earliest Egyptian gods, god of the desert,chaos,and storms was said to have a role of both a destroyer and protector but mostly known as a sort of trouble maker, he was also the brother of Osiris.

Seth eventually grew jealous of his brother Osiris and attempted to kill Osiris by having him go inside of a sarcophagus and throwing him down a river, but Osiris' wife found him and Osiris lived, but Seth did not give up eventually dismembering Osiris and spreading his body across countries.

Facts about Egyptian mythology

k37528745 — 2024-12-05 03:24:07 UTC

One fact about Egyptian mythology is, there were about 2,000 Egyptian deities in Egyptian mythology, there was a god for almost everything in Egyptian mythology.

Cats were worshipped in Egyptian mythology because if you housed cats you were said to have good luck and get rid of little monsters that made homes unsafe.

Mummification

k37528745 — 2024-12-05 03:24:10 UTC

The process of mummification was to try and preserve bodies, the way they started the process was taking out all of their insides and draining the brain right through the nose and leaving the heart because the Egyptians believed that the heart was an important part of the person for travelling to the after life, one of the oldest mummies ever recorded was found about 5,500 years ago.

Egyptian religion

k37528745 — 2024-12-05 03:24:13 UTC

In Egyptian religion people believed in many gods, some gods were even said to look like animals, humans, and even sometimes like humans with animal heads.

Egyptians were polytheistic believing gods, deity's, the afterlife, and many other things.

Egyptians would make temples to praise the gods and to be used as homes to the gods in a way, Egyptians would also make figurines called ushabtis, the ushabtis were used to magically do their work in the afterlife because Egyptians thought that they might be sent to do work in the afterlife.