Student Presentation

1. The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians By: Blakely Johnson, Lydia Frederick, & Molly Ott

2. Gods and Goddesses

3. There were hundreds of Egyptian gods and goddesses…

4. Amenhotep banned the worship of many of the gods and only worshiped one

5. Wadjet, the goddess of protection; Thoth, the god of knowledge; and Meretsegar, the protector of the tombs

6. They believed the creator of the world was Amun-Ra

7. The creation of the Egyptian world was very important to them.

8. Isis was the goddess of mothers and wives

9. Osiris was the god of the dead

10. Anubis was the protector of the dead and escorted them to the underworld. He was also very important.

11. Death and Afterlife

12. Mummification- First they took out the brain, liver, & lungs & preserved them in jars

13. Then they covered the body with natron crystals & sawdust &leaves

14. Next, they put the body in a coffin & put the coffin in the tomb

15. The Tombs

16. During the New Kingdom secret tombs were built in cliff walls in the Valley of the Kings

17. Buried with bodies were: clothes, jewelry, tools, & pottery

18. The Egyptians also buried their people with The Book of the Dead- it had spells & maps believed to be needed in the Afterlife

19. The Afterlife- They believed they went to the Underworld or Duat

20. The Hall of Two Truths- Where their hearts were weighed against a feather

21. When they passed the heart test they went into a land just like Egypt

22. Ancient Egyptian Education

23. The schools were attached to the temples, where they learned how to read and write.

24. Their religious education was a full of many different gods.

25. Some of the ways the Egyptians worshiped the gods were by sacrificing animals.

26. Priests had many jobs to help out with the religion

27. The Egyptians believed that different gods controlled the forces of nature giving good harvests or causing crops to die.