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Step #2.2 - The Religion of Ancient Egypt

Essential Question: How did religion play a significant role in Ancient Egypt?

Characteristic(s)	Description

Associations with animals: Most gods and goddesses shared their characteristics or spheres with animals. For example, Bastet and cats, Sekhmet and lions.

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-| Thousands instead worship all the deities they recognised in ancient Egypt as polytheists. According to them, elements of nature, animal presumed real-life creatures, as well as physical, corporeal, or abstract standards transformed into deities. Worshiped almost the whole time during Ancient Egypt except...
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-|| Pharaoh Akhenaten during the Amarna Period changed Egyptian religion to the worship of only one god, the Aten or Sun disk god. It was short-lived and when Akhenaten died the Pharaoh, the famous Tutankhamun reverted the religion back to polytheism.
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