Religion Flashcards
Phases of the sun god
Re - Night- Ram
Re-Khepri - Morning - Dung Beetle
Re-Horakhty-Midday-Hawk
Re-Atum-Evening- Anthropomorphic, combination of creator god Atum and solar god Re
Egyptian creation myth
Re (or Re-Atum) - either spit or masturbated, and produced a male and female pair of god, Shu(m) (air) and Tefnut(f) (moisture)
Egyptian god relationships
Re
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Shu - Tefnut
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Geb - Nut
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Osiris - Isis Nepthys - Seth
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HorusEgyptian Gods
- Amun-Re - King of the Gods
- Maat - Truth/Justice (Feather in hair)
- Ptah - Memphis, craftsmen
- Osiris - The Dead (Green/Black)
- Seth - Deserts/Violence
- Khonsu - Son of Amun-Re, moon-god
- Thoth - Wisdom, moon-god (Ibis)
- Hathor - Femininity/ Music (Cow Horns)
- Min - Masculine sexuality, deserts
- Bes - protects children and women in childbirth (Dwarf)
- Taweret - women in childbirth (Hippo)
- Re - Sun (Falcon/Sun DIsk)
- Amun - Creator, Thebes (Feather Crown)
- Geb - Earth (Green/Brown/Lying)
- Nut - Sky (Blue/Stars/Bending_
- Tefnut - Moisture
- Isis - Magic/Health/Marriage/Wisdom (Throne Hat)
- Nepthys - Funerary
- Horus - Sky/Kingship (Hawk)
- Shu - Wind/Air
- Anubis - Embalming, protecting the dead (Jackal)
- Aten - Sun disk
- Hapi/Harpi - personification of Inundation
Four songs of Horus
- Depicted on canopic jars
- Imsety - human - liver
- Duamutef - jackal - stomach
- Hapi - baboon - lungs
- Qebehsenuef - hawk - intenstines
Mesopotamian Gods
Enlil/Ellil - God of air, head of pantheon
Anu/An - God of sky, leader of the gods, Sumerian creator
Enki/Ea - god of water, wisdom, magic, crafts
Inana/Ishtar - goddess of fertility, sex, love, war and power
Ereshkigal - Goddess of the underworld, sister of Inana
Marduk - Patron deity of Babylon, later head of Babylonian pantheon
Nabu-God of Wisdom and writing
Nanshe- goddess of social justice, prophecy, fertile and fishing
Nergal/Erra - god of plague, war and the destructive sun, later husband of Ereshkigal
Ninhursag - Mother goddess
Ninurta - Warrior god, god of agriculture
Shamash/Utu - god of th esun, protector of justice
Evans model of Minoan Religion
- Great goddess and consort
- Small number of subsidiary deities
- Prepalatial period - Religious practice centered on tombs?
- Inconsistent with known religious mores of other regions of same period
- No firm evidence that features/finds cited are intended for anything other than mortuary cult of dead persons
- No religious texts known
Peak Sanctuaries
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Cave Sanctuaries
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Palaces
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Greek human sacrifice?
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Frescos
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Geometric Votive Offerings
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Classical Olympian Gods
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Greek Temples
e.g. Athens, Acropolis or Temple of Hera, Italy
