The Egyptians were polytheistic, that is believed in many gods, coming to adore about three thousand.
is little information on some of them.
Amon, Ra also said, had created heaven and earth (Geb and Nut), from which they were born Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephthys.
Every morning the sun rises in the East, is growing at its zenith, it travels west and then disappears, according to the Egyptians, after sunset, the sun was in the Duat, the land of the dead.
According to Egyptian myth, ie, the sun god Ra, traveled across the sky during the day and through the dead of night. Ra make this trip on a boat, the solar boat.
In Egyptian mythology, Isis was the goddess of fertility and motherhood. The Egyptians believed the wife of Osiris, judge of the dead, and mother of Horus, the god of heaven.
Ancient tales attributed magical powers of Isis.
His personality was thought to be similar to that of Hathor, goddess of love and happiness.
The greek historian Herodotus identified Isis with Demeter, the Greek goddess of the Earth, agriculture and fertility.
Osiris was the son of Geb and Nut and the brother of Seth.
reigned alongside his wife, Isis, giving people the knowledge of agriculture and religious practices.
He was always regarded as the dead king who becomes a god, while his successor was Horus, the son of Isis.
The death and resurrection of Osiris symbolized the periods of flooding of the Nile and the sowing of the ground made fertile by silt. As the dead god of nature, died during the flood to be reborn in the spring after their stay underground like the grain sown.
On the feast of Osiris, which took place before sowing, Egyptians reproduced with the silt a model of his body and placed it inside the seeds to sprout for holding the statue of thick leaves.
The goddess Hathor was represented in different forms, sometimes assumed the role of lady of shrines and temples. Originally
Hathor was the goddess of heaven, was sometimes depicted as a cow from the hair of stars. It was also the goddess of fertility.
Thoth was the name given to the Egyptian god of the moon, wisdom, writing, magic, of measuring time, mathematics and geometry.
was represented as a man with his head ibis, a water bird.
was a magician in awe, he was associated with the creation of the world and was the secretary and vizier of the god Ra.
was the patron of scribes and had a very important role: it had to weigh the heart of the deceased and whether it was a pharaoh had to write his life with his wife Seshat ISED shaft.
Seth was one of the most ancient deities. He was the god of the desert, drought, storm, the devastating power of nature in general, chaos, war and violence.
He represented the indomitable forces of human nature and was the symbol of rebellion against the gods. However
Seth was not evil in an absolute sense. He was also the god of the oasis, the borderlands and foreigners.
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