Welcome to Ancient Egypt where the gods are fierce, there’s quite a bit of incest, and sometimes the deities just show up or self-manifest simply because they please. Anyone who has spent even a moment doing some curiosity-induced internet searching about the gods of Ancient Egypt has likely been confused …
Even though Egyptian mythology and Norse mythology were around thousands of years apart, the two have some striking similarities. At the same time, the two religions couldn’t be more different. Egyptian and Norse Gods are very different. Egyptian Gods are representative of actual things in life through personification, most notably …
The Greek and Egyptian cultures may appear very different to the average onlooker. But, the truth is, they share many similarities and commonalities. Together, their mythologies spoke volumes about the world, its origins, and the purpose of mankind. Egyptian and Greek mythologies both pay close attention to the conflict between …
The Heliopolitan Ennead (from the Greek ennea, nine) was the earliest creation myth in Ancient Egypt. It described the nine gods who emerged from one, himself having come from nothing. These gods took up four generations. Each of them was responsible for a different part of what would become the …
There were over 2,000 gods in the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, so naturally, many are forgotten, obscure, or virtually unknown. The era we know as “Ancient Egyptian” covered around eleven different periods and just under six thousand years. It started in predynastic Egypt in around 5,500 BCE and ended with the …
There were hundreds of gods and goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon, ranging from the tiniest household god to the all-powerful God of the Sun. One of the most interesting things about Egyptian mythology was that they also acknowledged the gods of other myths such as the mighty Baal – they …
While it’s comforting to think that the gods are on your side, that was definitely not always the case in Ancient Egypt! Their vast pantheon contained hundreds of gods all across the scale of morality. To complicate things more, many important gods had dual natures, part benevolent and part vicious! …
The Ancient Egyptian people spent a great deal of their religious and spiritual focus on the power of animals and their connection to the world. Unsurprisingly, many of their gods shared aspects with or were even versions of some of the most powerful animals around Egypt at the time! Cats …
The gods of Ancient Egypt are definitely fascinating! Famous in their time and worshipped even by some pagan cults today, their powers and complex mythology remain fascinating. They were taken very seriously by the Ancient Egyptian people, and they definitely had a complicated family life! Civilians chose which gods to …