| By far, the ancient Egyptian culture | | | | wolf's head. Some gods were identified with |
| represents one of the least understood and | | | | multiple animals, as well, such as Thoth, who |
| most interesting facets of beliefs throughout | | | | was associated with the ibis, the baboon, and |
| human history. In this article, we'll give | | | | the moon. The creationist beliefs of the |
| you a basic idea of what modern day man knows | | | | Egyptians varied from tribe to tribe. Some |
| about what the ancient Egyptians put their | | | | felt that the god Khnum had built the world |
| faith in.Our understanding of Egyptian | | | | on a potter's wheel, while others felt that |
| religion is far from complete. Many of the | | | | the existence of the universe was due to the |
| things that we know about their religion seem | | | | spiritual thought of the god Ptah.Organized |
| incomplete; we seem to have found alternate | | | | religion found its way into Egypt at around |
| gods they've worshipped that served the same | | | | 3200 BC, when Egypt became organized as a |
| purposes, as well as conflicting stories | | | | state. Many of the gods that the ruling class |
| about what they believed about how the world | | | | were in favor of received the most acclaim |
| was formed. While our knowledge is somewhat | | | | throughout the land, with the god Amon |
| lacking, we'll focus on what we do know.Many | | | | receiving much more acclaim than he had |
| researchers feel that one of the most basic | | | | previously. The Egyptian religious experience |
| forms of religious identity that the | | | | was unique in that over time, the ruling |
| Egyptians performed was the worship of | | | | class had the power to directly influence |
| animals. The tribes of Egypt that existed | | | | which gods received the most praise. As time |
| pre-dynasty often worshipped different | | | | changed, different gods came into the |
| animals as gods that represented their | | | | limelight. Any way you put it, we still don't |
| feelings of which animal was in most relation | | | | have a concrete knowledge of the beliefs held |
| to their way of life. Many of these gods were | | | | by these ancient peoples. Hopefully, time |
| shown in pictures and writings to have an | | | | and exploration can help us to clear up many |
| animal head on a human body, with an example | | | | of the difficult questions posed by Egyptian |
| being Ophois, the god of war, who had a | | | | religion. |