ACS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Khnum, Christ Child, Ptah
28 Jan 2017
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They had a constant pattern of religious belief which remained the same for 3000 years because it was perfect: moving away from traditional religious practices was corruption. Overtime practices and iconography became more complex, old theologies were layered and remixed with new ones to emphasize lack of doctrine in the religion. The contradictive images were a rich and complementary explanation of their cosmos. Nearby regions adopted egyptian gods, but foreign gods weren"t popular amongst the. Influenced the romans and later religions as well: the virgin mary and baby jesus were inspired by isis and her baby horus, nuns, and the group of 8 gods were also derived from egyptians. Early iconography was of animals to represent the power of animals inherent in gods, or of anthropomorphism (to have humanistic characteristics) Gods can be identified by attributes, like headdresses, however man gods have similar attributes and are hard to distinguish. Polytheistic they have thousands of deities.
