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Memorise key facts about Ancient Egyptian Religion

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Who is the deity of the watery abyss?

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Nun

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What does Atum stand for?

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The completed one

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Which deity is the hidden one?

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Amun

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Re is what kind of deity?

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Sun god

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What is Osiris the god of?

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underworld and fertility

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Which goddess is the destructive alter ego of Hathor?

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Sahkmet

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Isis is?

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Mother goddess and mother of Horous

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Geb?

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Earth, son of Shu and Tefnut

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Nut?

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Sky goddess

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God of moisture?

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Tefnut

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God of air?

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Shu

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Thoth?

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Wisdom. shown as baboon

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War, powerful one?

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Sakhmet

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Hathor?

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Women, motherhood, sexulaity, joy, foreign lands

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Ma’at is what?

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Truth and justice. Order of the universe, weighs the heart.

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Ptah is who?

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The creator god. Created earth through speech and thought.

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What does Horus stand for?

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kingship, protects the king

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Seth?

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Chaos and disorder

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Anubis?

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Guardian of necropolis, a jackal

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An example of syncretism?

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Amun-Re or Ptah- Sokar-Osiris

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Describe the Heliopolitan Cosmogony.

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Earth created with bodily fluid of Atum, it is a narrative which is unusual.

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Describe Memphite Cosmogony.

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Ptah thought and spoke the world into being. Setting up a moral code aswell.

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Where would the cult statue typically be kept in a New kingdom temple?

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The sanctum sanctorium, or holy of holies.

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Name the two eternities.

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Djet- linear eternity, flow of time on earth. Nekhekh- cyclincal eternity, cycles of nature and heaven.

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Which myth is predominately about kingship?
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
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What is the main purpose of the myth of The Secret Name of Re?
To show how to heal snake bites, and the power in a name.
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What is the Destruction of Mankind myth about?
How murder was created among mankind, by Re and Hathor.
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What is the myth of Osiris and Isis about?
Typhon scatters Osiris' body all around Egypt, shows the reason for many tomb of Osiris and why they celebrate a festival in honour of this.
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What is the myth of truth and falsehood about?
Truth winning over falsehood, good overcoming evil. Order being restored.
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What is the ceremony that awakens the cult image?
Opening of the mouth ceremony
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In what corpus of texts is the negative confession found?
The Book of the Dead
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Who is the ibis-headed deity?
Thoth
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Goddess shown with sun-disk and cow's horns
Isis like Hathor
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Who was at the centre of worship at Thebes?
Amun
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Who was at the centre of worship at Abydos?
Osiris
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Who was at centre of worship at Heliopolis?
Re
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Who was at centre of worship at Memphis?
Ptah
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Describe the Dream Stele of Thutomse IV.
to commemorate a dream he had while sleeping between the paws of the sphinx in the dream, the sphinx, as Re, came to the prince and told him if he cleared the sand from the sphinx, he would become king of Egypt
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Hippo-headed goddess of childbirth?
Taweret
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Household protective deity?
Bes
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What does the amulet of Sobek stand for?
Fertility
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Heka means?
Magic
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Name the medical Papyri we have?
Kahun- Gynecological | London- burns, tumours and death!
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What does the hedgehog amulet stand for?
rebirth symbol
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What is the Tyet symbol?
Isis, blood of Isis, protection in afterlife.
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Why were herdsmen thought to have Heka (magic)?
To protect the cattle, as they were seen as expensive, and needed to assist with cattle giving birth.
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What is the Liminal state?
The period of time in between this world and the next. This can occur at birth or death, or any time of transition.
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What are funerary dancers called?
Mww dancers
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What is the Djed pillar thought to represent mythologically?
Backbone of Osiris
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What is a metamyth?
Textual and physical together in the Old kingdom funerary texts
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What is shown in relief on Ramsses III's inner courtyard pylon?
War Reliefs
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A myth this is aetiological is a myth that is about what?
Beginnings
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What was the most important relationship evident in funerary literature?
Relationship between father and son
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Requests for mediation or justice from the gods?
Oracle
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Requests for mediation or justice from the god
Oracle
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The deity who sits in judgement over the dead
Osiris
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Epithet "True of voice" means?
That the dead persons heart weighed less than the feather of truth and they are free of sin, they are the blessed dead.
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Abstract concepts of Perceptions and Authoritative Utterance?
Sia and Hu
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Stone in which Memphite theology is written?
Shabaka Stone, a mill stone.
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PT- Cannibal Hymn
Unas, eating people and their gods
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Examples of non-religious art?
Gaming pieces and bowls
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Senwosret I with Min relief in stone, on chapel in dyn 12...
Art showing deities and king
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Offering spoon, woman with duck
Art in religious context, holds ointment
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Tomb of Ramose Dyn 18...
Art in sacred spaces, libations over him, painted only eyes left.
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Ni-ankh-nesut releif
Getting cattle across water, showing something in the afterlife- Art in sacred spaces.
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Ani's Book of the Dead
Art in literature, showing funerary procession
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Running Troops
Valley Temple relief, king in the life of the country
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Causeway Releif
Lower: mythological Upper:Provisioning of King in afterlife
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Unas Causeway
Famine
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Sahure Mortuary temple releif
Bears, natural scenes, ritualistic
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Old Kingdom Statuary:
Very blocky, Rahotep and Neferet
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Ankh-haf statue presents him as...
Time worn face, not shown in usual ideal way
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Idu statue is..
half a body in a doorway, an offering statue
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Tomb of Het shows?
Old Kingdom Paste relief, wanted his art to last forever
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Amenemhat III picture, when is it and what is he shown as?
Middle- new Kingdom, he is shown as a sem-preist
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Bes jar, and bronze incense burner are from when?
New Kingdom
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Ankh-haf statue presents him as...
Time worn face, not shown in usual ideal way
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Idu statue is..
half a body in a doorway, an offering statue
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Tomb of Het shows?
Old Kingdom Paste relief, wanted his art to last forever
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Amenemhat III picture, when is it and what is he shown as?
Middle- new Kingdom, he is shown as a sem-preist
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Bes jar, and bronze incense burner are from when?
New Kingdom

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