Ancient Egyptian Religion: How were the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Worshipped?

Ancient Egyptian Religion incorporated so many different aspects; mythology, spiritualism, science, magic, medicine psychology and herbology. With so many different facets, Ancient Egyptian religion was completely integrated into the lives of every single Egyptian. The Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses made up a pantheon of over 2000, and they were all worshipped differently.

Some of the most popular Egyptian deities were Amun, Isis, Osiris, Horus, Bastet, Anubis and Hathor who were all worshipped in temples. However, other popular deities such as Ma'at, Seshat, Heka and Bes didn't have temples constructed for them, which meant religious observance of these gods was a personal and individual affair.

The complete integration of Egyptian Religion into the everyday lives of the Ancient Egyptians and the worship of many different gods for many different things meant that the disruption of the system by Akhenaten (a period is now known as the Amarna Period) would have been very upsetting.

Upholding Ma'at, or universal harmony, the Egyptians made sure to live a peaceful life in order to move on to a peaceful afterlife in the field of reeds. To move on to paradise after death, one's heart must weigh less than the white feather of truth on the scales of justice, but if its heavier your heart would be thrown to the ground and eaten by Ammut. If it was lighter, it would move on to the field of reeds and live eternally in an idealized version of life on earth.

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0:00 Introduction
0:46 What was Egyptian Religion?
3:16 How were the Gods Worshipped? Formal State Religious Observances
6:25 Disruption to the Hierarchy
7:35 How were the Gods Worshipped? Informal Daily Religious Observances
10:09 Belief in the Afterlife
11:22 The 'Gateway' Sin
12:53 Images and Attributions

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World History Encyclopedia

[WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Do you think that the Egyptians vision of the afterlife influenced later concepts of life after death? Let us know what you think!

[Nilgiris.Luxury]

Ancient Egyptian religion bears similarities to ancient hinduism- vedic practices. Surya or Sun God was the main diety and his temple called Konark, which sounds similar to Kanark. There were many Gods who had human form, animal form or a combination of both. Hindus also believe in sacred plants, trees, mountains etc. Kings belonging to Sun dynasty or moon dynasty were also common. The Hindu goddesses are called Maa, much like Maat.

We hindus still believe in afterlife but not in the same way as Egyptians.

[lakshyamiglani]

Imagine if Egypt was a continuous civilization and this religion existed, how rich the culture would have been

[dylanmurphy]

Technology changes but the human mind doesn’t, these teachings will always be relevant to us

[ahmedsherief]

Amun was first known as God of the night (his name means "the hidden one"). His later association with Ra, the God of the sun, made him a symbol of a full cycle of existence (life and death, as in day and night), thus he was considered to be the King of Gods.

[imaesthetixanna]

Thank you so much, this helped me a lot in my 6th grade homework LOL

[ron]

There is a handsome new book of 224 pages with 185 brilliant color plates titled "Sacred Deities of Ancient Egypt" that illustrates in illuminating color photographs and detailed text the lives and beliefs of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. Many of the photos of the actual tombs and hieroglyphics have never been reproduced before. The book ia available through Fine Arts Press.

[jojuna]

this video is so well done! thank you so much

[prajwalhegde]

Hinduism and Egyptian religion have a lot in common

[jummarlombi]

Love to listen your videos, make more videos of antiquity Egypt culture

[Mina-ndtp]

Nice images are showing while telling the story👍🏼

[alphawannofficial]

loved this presentation. Thank you for this great insight!

[MochaQueen]

We only had one god Amen-Ra. My ancestors were just honoring our ancestors and communicating with them same as we still do today. They also understood and respected nature.

[chidaarthistory]

Thank you very much for the nice video.
I have a question.  
About the Book of the Dead (10:57), I have heard “If the heart and the feather “balanced”, it continued Field of Reeds” in a book and in a museum's caption that I read in the past.  
But in this video you said “If the heart is lighter”.
Are there two theories?

[KillerSmilEz]

😮 every part of it was 👍😉 lovely voice

[chandanswami]

Old religion have great knowledge then the christianity and islam .

[aprilfrancisco]

I had to watch this for humanities class. Just saying i was here and i watched it

[eastafrika]

The Ancient Egyptian religion was Maatism, explicit self Consciousness, empathy.

[jacksimms]

Thanks for sharing my lunch break. Your great.

[abhib]

Is there anyone left who is practicing ancient Egyptian religion?