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Topic: Ancient Egyptian religion

Related:
  Religion    Egyptian  
  Ancient    Ancient Egyptian Art  
  Ancient Egyptian Gods    Ancient Egyptian history  
  Religion of ancient Egypt    Ancient Egyptian Pyramid  
  Ancient Egyptian mummies    Ancient Egyptian game  
  Ancient Greek religion    Pictures used in ancient Egyptian  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Cleopatra
Personality:Devout
Religion(s):Pagan,  Wicca,  Zoroastrianism
Favorite era(s):Prehistoric times
Favorite religious figure(s):Siddhartha Gautama
Favorite great leader(s):Gamal Nasser,  Alexander the Great
Interest(s):Greek mythology
Favorite great thinker(s):Pythagoras
Likes to wear:Ancient Egyption,  Beard
Favorite computer game(s):Age of Mythology,  Civilization,  Age of Empires
Starsign:Taurus
Favorite destination(s):India
Favorite time of year:Autumn
Favorite political figure(s):Anwar Sadat
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

The religion of the ancient Egyptians did not begin with the apparent monotheism of Akhenaton, aka Amenhotep IV, or with some mystical connection within the Pyramids.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

The two great Vedic and Egyptian currents were founders of ten great religions in the ancient world until the advent of Buddhism.
I was overwhelmed by the detailed knowledge available of the ancient Egyptians, knowledge of their daily lives, religion, and social conventions.
Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple A good site for learning about the Kemetic religion, as it was practiced in ancient times.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

The focus is on learning the continents and the major bodies of the Ancient World in the Mediterranean region as well as the cultures and religions of the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Greeks.
Here are web sites with feature ancient Egyptian religion and Mythology; some include lists of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.
Closely related "neopagan" religions have also appeared in revivals of ancient Egyptian, Celtic, Greek, and Nordic religions.
Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver

Much like the ancient Egyptians buried their dead with their valuables, the Coptic people buried their dead with their valuables -- that is, their Coptic religion and their unyielding faith.
At the time it was believed that the Corpus really was the religion of the ancient Egyptians, and that Hermes was a kind of Egyptian Moses.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Many of the concepts of Christianity were already familiar to the Egyptians from their ancient religion, such as the death and resurrection of a god, the idea of the judgement of souls and a paradisiacal afterlife for the faithful.
The author would like to explain that she is a priest of the ancient Egyptian religion (Kemetic Orthodox -- as it was practiced by the ancient Egyptians) and so refers to her gods with respect for them.
The ancient Egyptians had their own religions, and their own religious practices and rituals, before the monotheistic religions made their entry on the scene.
 
 
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