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Ancient Egyptian God question?

We're learning about this in school. Okay. When you die, they believed that you had 70 days to be judged by Anubis and Horus. They weighed your heart, if it was lighter than a feather you would enter the realm of the dead, thus "heavy heart'' meaning guilt.

I watched Disney's Hercules and these 3 Ladies would cut your string of life when your time was up.

So what did they believe killed you? Or what made you die? I know they prayed to certain Gods when a body part heart, such as a stomach: you'd pray to the God representing stomachs.

Update:

*part HURT, sorry

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Notice how they push you off to the mythology and folklore section because the Egyptian gods are not being worshiped any more . That is proof that when the brainwashing wanes so does the worship . No gods or devils exist out side of ones properly brainwashed mind .

  • 1 decade ago

    Pharaohs like Popes, died (physical death) they would transform into gods or saints if you're catholic.

    They believed in reincarnation. The surviving spirit would be reincarnated into something else (kids, animal, plant etc...). The spirit did not die.

    Osiris, Isis and Horus is the origin of the holy trinity in christianity. Horus' story is similar to jesus.

    Washington DC has an egyptian obelisk in the middle of the washington monument.

    The egyptian society practices polytheism (many deity/gods). A deity existed for the all organs of the body. Should an organ become ill or not functioning one could pray/preform rituals for the deity responsible for that organ.

  • Corey
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Let me start by saying that Disney's Hercules is a bad source of information on even Hellenistic (Greek/Roman) polytheism. The imagery and beliefs in Hellenistic polytheism differs from the Egyptian (Kemetic) polytheism. The Egyptians actually believed a person had five "souls" (for lack of a better word in English).

    "Fate" was part of Kemetism as early as the end of the Old Kingdom. There's a story that at each person's birth seven Hathors would say all the events that would happen in that person's life, including their death.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe this will help????

    Assuming you were a significant person, and could afford mumification, etc.:

    Upon your death, it was thought that you had a judgment. Thoth kept the record, and you stood in front of a scale where your heart was weighed against a feather (in a balance-scale....maybe you can find a drawing of this. Check out something like The Book of Ani + weighing of the heart.)

    If your heart weighed MORE that the feather, a creature that was half croc (the front half) and half hippo, ate your heart, and your judgment was over.

    You went no where.

    If your heart weighed less than the feather, you had an audience with Horus, who introduced you to Orisis, his father, and you were welcomed into the next life. Your body was preserved by mummification, and your Ka (your spirit) could leave and return.

    The body was necessary to have to have a place to return. If you were wealthy, things needed in the afterlife were put with you. Depending upon your wealth, you could have a tomb. If you were Pharoah, you began building one as soon as you were pharoah.

    There is as well another version, that was adopted by the Christians...(you likely already know that there is absolutely nothing original in Christianity).

    At your death, your Ka answered questions called The Twelve Denials, where you denied that you did any of the bad things... you killed no one, you did not commit adultery, you did not steal, etc... (the 10 commandments, sorta. And the 10 commandments are based on these...adopted by the Tribe of Israel during the time they were held captive by the Egyptians). If you passed this test, you were welcomed into The Field of the Reeds... Egyptian version of a christian heaven)

    I have no clue where you got your information about three ladies, and how they cut your heart. I never saw any Disney thing with anything like that, or this, in it... All of this information is in a paprus now called The Book of the Dead. (A better translation is "The Book of Going Forth By Day.")

    Helpful?

    Write if you are still confused.

    Edit:

    Here's a blurb I found on the FIELD OF REEDS.

    "After finally reaching the Hall of Osiris, the deceased had to undergo the final judgment and the weighing of his heart against the feather of maat (truth) in the presence of Osiris and the 42 judges of the afterlife. If the applicant passed successfully, he was admitted to the paradise of Osiris, referred to as the “Field of Reeds” or “Field of Offerings.” This realm was modeled on Egypt itself. The land was crisscrossed by irrigation canals, and the deceased was responsible for such agricultural tasks as plowing, sowing, and reaping. Since this was paradise, the fruits of such labor were much greater. Wheat was said to grow to a height of five cubits (2.29 meters), with ears two cubits (.91 meters) in length. Barley grew seven cubits (3.2 meters) high, with ears of three cubits (1.37 meters). In order to avoid performing such backbreaking labor personally, the well-prepared Egyptian was buried with a number of shawabti-figurines, which responded for him or her when the deceased was called on to do manual labor in the afterlife."

    The idea of some afterlife has prevailed in the history of humanity.... it is a way of hoping you never die. The three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all believe in some afterlife. Most other religions do not. The fourth most popular religion, Buddhism, thinks this is an absolutely stupid idea, and against human experience. No one has ever come back. No one has proof, or any evidence of any afterlife. This idea came originally from Egypt,and was adopted by the Jews. From them, came both Christianity and Islam.---all three copy cat religions of Egypt.

    Source(s): lived and studied in Egypt in 2002. Spent 5 months before going learning to read heiroglyphs. Hugely interesting. Have photographs to die for from Cairo Museum all the way south into Abu Simbel. Fabulous.
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  • 1 decade ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Egyptian Gods were fake

    Watch 10000 BC.! :D

    Source(s): @idoubtit agree!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ask this again in the mythology and folklore section.

  • 1 decade ago

    The thing about those old religions is they weren't thought out very well.

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