Those who have been following me for a while and those who do a quick review of my posts on the page will find that 50% of my posts are related to religion and belief, and the other 50% are advice divided between publications of the daily life of ancient Egyptians and explanations of some artifacts and other publications...
Okay, the question is, why is all this focus on religion and beliefs with their difficulty and difficulty of understanding?
The answer is simply because religion and belief are the center of gravity in the ancient Egyptian civilization, without the belief of the ancient Egyptian that he lives for a temporary period and dies for a temporary period, then resurrects an eternal life, without this faith, he would not have left us all these creations of pyramids, temples, arts, literature and sciences, which are creations he made in All effort and work all thought in it for his second eternal life to be complete unscrupulous.
And because religion and belief are the expression of the religious, political and social thought, and because it was the essence of the life of the first and second Egyptian man, and because it coexisted with the Egyptian man for thousands of years and subjected to some of the variables that his political society went through, whether it was religious, economic or military... Etc, so our scope of these doctrines has expanded to include everything about religious philosophy and its intellectual and spiritual output
Religious and ideological thought in ancient Egypt had a special role in ancient Egypt than other peoples of ancient civilizations. Since the Stone Age Egyptians have been characterized by meditation, tracing, trying to understand everything that exists in their environment, and trying to find an explanation or justification for some cosmic events and phenomena. However, there are many things and phenomena that were hard to comprehend with the extent of experience and senses he had at the beginning of his steps on the path of civilization. Such things led the Egyptians to think about his environment and his intuitive sense of the existence of an invisible power beyond his ability to control the occurrence of various phenomena.
The Egyptians may have hoped for the arrival of floods and drought, noticed lightning, thunder and rainfall, followed the plants exit from the ground and their growth and fruit, so he realized through all of this and others fully convinced the existence of this influential and controlled force in the environment and the universe, which his mind could not comprehend.
And from here he began to think again about what this force is and how to portray it and whether it is beneficial (it brings floods and rain, and sprouts planting) or harmful evil (it causes drought, lightning and thunder).
From here the crystallization of the fertile imagination of the Egyptian man began to crystallize. He accepted to know what is going on around him, not interested and not satisfied with what nature may reveal secrets and determination to seek to uncover all these hidden secrets and secrets with his mind, management and patience in observing events and phenomena.
From here Egyptians began to observe all these phenomena around him as a basic step to complete any research based on scientific foundations that we know now. Prehistoric generations inherited this unrestrained desire for knowledge and to respond to the prospects of the human mind to answer puzzling questions that have always prompted his imagination to observe, meditate and see And the pictorial.
The ancient Egyptian belief was that there was a hidden power in nature and was not seen, so he worked on creating a way to communicate and communicate with this power, so the value of some phenomena and creatures that have abilities and characteristics beyond imagination, so they approach the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars from the cosmic phenomena that hold good for him and at the same time approach Other phenomena carries fears and damages (such as thunder and lightning) in the hope of paying off this damage.
He also saw good in some animals and birds (especially cows, rabbits, and ostrich, while he saw evil in others (e.g. the lion, the cub, the hawk, the snake, and the crocodiles). He also showed admiration and appreciation to each other (like hawks and eagles that can fly over horizons in the sky). From this point the idea of sanctification began and this was a fundamental first step to the foundation of ancient Egyptian religion and beliefs in historical times.
Egyptians began to make offerings from relatives to what he had sanctified from living images of these phenomena or beings. The owner of these introductions did not hesitate to perform some movements and dances, which were the core of what was then known as rituals and rituals of worship.
And here we face an important question that poses himself as to why ancient Egypt worshipped animals, birds, reptiles, trees and other creatures, and whether he enslaved them to themselves or considering that they represented hidden powers that he could not realize with his limited horizons in the early stages of his life?.
The phenomena indicate that the Egyptians did not worship these creatures themselves but rather considering that the hidden forces he perceives are present in them. In other words, the creatures that the Egyptian worshipped are ground symbols of these hidden forces that do not live with them on Earth. The proof that the Egyptians did not worship these creatures themselves is that they slaughtered the cow, killed the crocodile and the snake, although they were symbols of idols sanctified throughout the ages.
When the Egyptian learned to use pottery and decorative utensils, he began to photograph some of his ideological perceptions of these utensils. This represents the early depiction of some symbols and marks, some of which were difficult to understand and some continued in different historical eras.
Some of these tools were used in carving drawings and decorations on the walls of some caves where man inhabited before descending to the valley, which carried many of the thoughts of this man as something other than the peoples of the Old World in their primitive stone ages.
This thought evolved amazingly when the Egyptian man had previously changed him into believing that there was a second life after death, his belief in it was an amazing step in his thinking at this early period of history, and had the biggest role in establishing a religious entity and a great selling religious thought, playing a significant role in building The civilization of this people which are closely linked to their religious beliefs.
This solid doctrine also had the greatest and most important impact in preserving everything we have learned about this civilization, when the ancient Egyptian man's interest in his afterlife throughout historical times motivated him to try to supply his grave with everything. What was recorded inside of carvings, landscapes and what was preserved of funeral furniture served as a great archive that preserved for us the history of the oldest and greatest civilizations on earth.
The lesson and hobby of Egyptology if it is not characterized by religious and ideological thought and the stages of its development in ancient Egypt, it may be like sailing against the current, and no one can understand Egyptian civilization well without knowing and understanding the religious thought that ancient Egypt believed, and he would have missed so much of that interesting journey to the greatest Ancient and striking civilizations in the roots of history
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