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This 8 page paper discusses the effect of mythology on the religion of the day in ancient Egypt. Examples of how myths and stories about the various gods affected the daily rituals and customs of this civilization are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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whomever was in power at the time tended to give more notoriety to their particular deity. Close ties between mythology and the religious practices of ancient Egypt are possible to
ascertain, however. One of the prevailing myths of any civilization is the explanation of creation. How did man get where he is? How did the gods come into existence? Ancient
Egyptian texts state that in the beginning the only thing on the Earth was water. From this watery beginning there emerged an egg, though in some versions a flower appears
instead of the egg. Nonetheless, out of this emerging form comes the first god, named Ra. He is the Sun god and credited with bringing forth all the other gods,
most notably Shu and Tefnut, who became the air, Geb was the earth, and Nut was the sky. The gods and goddesses took on human characteristics and warred amongst themselves,
loved, danced, and produced many other lesser gods. This myth closely relates to the annual flooding of the Nile that the Egyptians had to contend with. Consider the parallels.
First, from the watery void came the life giving sun, Ra, who rose onto the first hills just as the subsiding of the Nile flood causes hills of mud and
land to appear with their nutrient rich soils. By day Ra sailed through the air on a boat between the sky and the earth, resting at night in the body
of Nut, to be born again each morning, thus paralleling the movement of the sun through the sky and the reemergence of the sun in the morning.
From this ensuing basic myth proceeded the somewhat disorganized religions which would cover most of Egypt. There was no one true religion and each
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