What Is Egypt Religion?

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Hey it’s me Nicole in egypt.It’s so fascinating how egypt religion is.I had some questions about it.Like this question how did they know about the god’s and goddesses? Some of my responses are “early predynastic tribes venerated their own particular gods, who were usually embodied in a particular animal.” which means that tribes make their own gods. Which are mostly animal like.Another response is “Temples in ancient Egypt were devoted to individual gods.The meaning of it is people think that the god’s were separate since they have separate pyramids.And the last response is “they suggest that the pyramids’ design may have been influenced by a religion based on sun worship.That means that religion had to do with the pyramids based on sun worship.

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