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Memorise key facts about Ancient Egyptian Religion

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Who is the deity of the watery abyss?

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Nun

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What does Atum stand for?

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The completed one

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Which deity is the hidden one?

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Amun

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Re is what kind of deity?

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Sun god

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What is Osiris the god of?

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underworld and fertility

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Which goddess is the destructive alter ego of Hathor?

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Sahkmet

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Isis is?

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Mother goddess and mother of Horous

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Geb?

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Earth, son of Shu and Tefnut

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Nut?

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Sky goddess

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God of moisture?

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Tefnut

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God of air?

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Shu

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Thoth?

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Wisdom. shown as baboon

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War, powerful one?

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Sakhmet

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14
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Hathor?

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Women, motherhood, sexulaity, joy, foreign lands

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Ma’at is what?

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Truth and justice. Order of the universe, weighs the heart.

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Ptah is who?

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The creator god. Created earth through speech and thought.

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What does Horus stand for?

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kingship, protects the king

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Seth?

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Chaos and disorder

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Anubis?

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Guardian of necropolis, a jackal

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20
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An example of syncretism?

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Amun-Re or Ptah- Sokar-Osiris

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Describe the Heliopolitan Cosmogony.

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Earth created with bodily fluid of Atum, it is a narrative which is unusual.

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Describe Memphite Cosmogony.

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Ptah thought and spoke the world into being. Setting up a moral code aswell.

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Where would the cult statue typically be kept in a New kingdom temple?

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The sanctum sanctorium, or holy of holies.

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Name the two eternities.

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Djet- linear eternity, flow of time on earth. Nekhekh- cyclincal eternity, cycles of nature and heaven.

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25
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Which myth is predominately about kingship?

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The Contendings of Horus and Seth

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26
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What is the main purpose of the myth of The Secret Name of Re?

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To show how to heal snake bites, and the power in a name.

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27
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What is the Destruction of Mankind myth about?

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How murder was created among mankind, by Re and Hathor.

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What is the myth of Osiris and Isis about?

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Typhon scatters Osiris’ body all around Egypt, shows the reason for many tomb of Osiris and why they celebrate a festival in honour of this.

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What is the myth of truth and falsehood about?

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Truth winning over falsehood, good overcoming evil. Order being restored.

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30
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What is the ceremony that awakens the cult image?

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Opening of the mouth ceremony

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31
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In what corpus of texts is the negative confession found?

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The Book of the Dead

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32
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Who is the ibis-headed deity?

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Thoth

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33
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Goddess shown with sun-disk and cow’s horns

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Isis like Hathor

34
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Who was at the centre of worship at Thebes?

35
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Who was at the centre of worship at Abydos?

36
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Who was at centre of worship at Heliopolis?

37
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Who was at centre of worship at Memphis?

38
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Describe the Dream Stele of Thutomse IV.

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to commemorate a dream he had while sleeping between the paws of the sphinx
in the dream, the sphinx, as Re, came to the prince and told him if he cleared the sand from the sphinx, he would become king of Egypt

39
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Hippo-headed goddess of childbirth?

40
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Household protective deity?

41
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What does the amulet of Sobek stand for?

42
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Heka means?

43
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Name the medical Papyri we have?

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Kahun- Gynecological

London- burns, tumours and death!

44
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What does the hedgehog amulet stand for?

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rebirth symbol

45
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What is the Tyet symbol?

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Isis, blood of Isis, protection in afterlife.

46
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Why were herdsmen thought to have Heka (magic)?

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To protect the cattle, as they were seen as expensive, and needed to assist with cattle giving birth.

47
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What is the Liminal state?

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The period of time in between this world and the next. This can occur at birth or death, or any time of transition.

48
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What are funerary dancers called?

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Mww dancers

49
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What is the Djed pillar thought to represent mythologically?

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Backbone of Osiris

50
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What is a metamyth?

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Textual and physical together in the Old kingdom funerary texts

51
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What is shown in relief on Ramsses III’s inner courtyard pylon?

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War Reliefs

52
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A myth this is aetiological is a myth that is about what?

A

Beginnings

53
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What was the most important relationship evident in funerary literature?

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Relationship between father and son

54
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Requests for mediation or justice from the gods?

55
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Requests for mediation or justice from the god

56
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The deity who sits in judgement over the dead

57
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Epithet “True of voice” means?

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That the dead persons heart weighed less than the feather of truth and they are free of sin, they are the blessed dead.

58
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Abstract concepts of Perceptions and Authoritative Utterance?

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Sia and Hu

59
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Stone in which Memphite theology is written?

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Shabaka Stone, a mill stone.

60
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PT- Cannibal Hymn

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Unas, eating people and their gods

61
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Examples of non-religious art?

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Gaming pieces and bowls

62
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Senwosret I with Min relief in stone, on chapel in dyn 12…

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Art showing deities and king

63
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Offering spoon, woman with duck

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Art in religious context, holds ointment

64
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Tomb of Ramose Dyn 18…

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Art in sacred spaces, libations over him, painted only eyes left.

65
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Ni-ankh-nesut releif

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Getting cattle across water, showing something in the afterlife- Art in sacred spaces.

66
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Ani’s Book of the Dead

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Art in literature, showing funerary procession

67
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Running Troops

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Valley Temple relief, king in the life of the country

68
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Causeway Releif

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Lower: mythological
Upper:Provisioning of King in afterlife

69
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Unas Causeway

70
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Sahure Mortuary temple releif

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Bears, natural scenes, ritualistic

71
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Old Kingdom Statuary:

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Very blocky, Rahotep and Neferet

72
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Ankh-haf statue presents him as…

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Time worn face, not shown in usual ideal way

73
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Idu statue is..

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half a body in a doorway, an offering statue

74
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Tomb of Het shows?

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Old Kingdom Paste relief, wanted his art to last forever

75
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Amenemhat III picture, when is it and what is he shown as?

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Middle- new Kingdom, he is shown as a sem-preist

76
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Bes jar, and bronze incense burner are from when?

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New Kingdom

77
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Ankh-haf statue presents him as…

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Time worn face, not shown in usual ideal way

78
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Idu statue is..

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half a body in a doorway, an offering statue

79
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Tomb of Het shows?

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Old Kingdom Paste relief, wanted his art to last forever

80
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Amenemhat III picture, when is it and what is he shown as?

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Middle- new Kingdom, he is shown as a sem-preist

81
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Bes jar, and bronze incense burner are from when?

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New Kingdom

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