Egyptian God Research Paper

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God of | Name | Appearance | Sun | Ra | head of falcon and sun disk | Music | Hathor | horns of cow and sun disk | Destruction | Sekhmet | head of lion | Sky | Nut | blue with golden stars | Earth | Geb | colour of plants and Nile mud | Dead | Osiris | dressed in white with crook and flail | Desert | Seth | animal head with long curved snout | Pharoah | Horus | head of hawk and crown of Egypt | Magic | Isis | throne on head or holding baby | Wisdom | Thoth | head of ibis | Embalming | Anubis | head of jackal | Justice | Ma'at | feather in her hair | Creation | Amun | crowned with feathers | Cats | Bastet | head of cat | | Symbol | White crown | Red
His crown is the white crown of Upper Egypt surrounded by red feathers. His skin is green to represent vegetation. He holds the symbols of supreme power, the flail and crook. The crook is used by shepherds to catch their sheep. The flail is used in threshing, to separate the grains from the outer husks. Osiris was the God of the Dead. You would expect that such a god would be gloomy or even evil, but the Egyptians thought about death a lot. They mummified their dead and buried them with their belongings so they could enjoy themselves in the
There Anubis weighed your heart against the feather of Ma'at. Ma'at, the goddess of justice sits on top of the scales to make sure that the weighing is carried out properly. You can see Anubis steadying the scales to make the weighing fair. If your heart was lighter than the feather, you lived for ever. We still talk of "a heart as light as a feather" to mean care-free, and "heavy-hearted" to mean sad. If your heart was heavier than the feather then it was eaten by the demon Ammit, the Destroyer. Ammit had the head of a crocodile, the shoulders of a lion and the rump of a hippopotamus. These were all frightening animals for the Egyptians. Thoth, god of wisom and writing, stands by to record what