Egyptian Religion

Egyptian Religion



Religion was the center of life for Egyptians. Except for a period of about one hundred years, their religion was based on beliefs in many gods, polytheism. Some of the gods were connected with death and afterlife. There were gods who created and ruled over the world. Everything the Egyptians did was based on their religion. Many Egyptians built small shrines at their homes to worship their favorite gods. Before Egypt was united, every town and village worshipped its own gods. Egyptians worshipped as many as 2,000 gods and goddesses. They identified their gods with animals. The gods had a person’s body with an animals’ head. All Egyptians worshiped the most important god, Ra the sun god, with consistency. Even the Egyptian pharaohs made offerings to the gods as part of their worship.

The Egyptians believed that the gods created the world. The ocean existed before anything else. The Sun god, Ra, came out of an egg and appeared on the su...