Similarities Between Egyptian Culture And American Culture

Surpassing five thousand years the Egyptian culture has survived and also created inventions like black ink, hieroglyphic script, the solar calendar, wigs, and eye makeup. A lot of the Egyptian culture can be seen in the world today mainly because their inventions are used everywhere. I will compare the similarities as well as the differences between Egyptian and American cultures by examining religion, death rituals, holidays, traditions, and food.
Egyptians lived a very religious life. They based their religion on polytheism which is the worship of many deities. The Egyptians had many gods and goddesses and they were often represented as a mixture of human and animal. Let’s take a look at Horus the sky god, he had the head of a hawk, and body of a human (Baines, Web). Egyptians considered animals such as the bull, the cat, and the crocodile to be holy (Baines, Web). Egypt people mainly follow the Islamic religion and another large religion that takes up about 10 percent of the population is Christianity.
They believed that after death is when they could reach their full potential and they believed each person had three souls. The way their funerals were put together was driven by the belief in rebirth after death. The priests said a prayer and one last attempt to revive the corpse when a person died. The body was then washed and purified in a special shelter called an ibu (Mark, Web).The funeral and burial of an Egyptian was a complex process. A funeral procession with dancers and mourners took the embalmed body to the tomb where the “Opening of the Mouth” ritual was performed at the tomb's entrance (Mark, Web). After a period of about seventy days, in which the mummification process took place, the mummy was placed in a decorated coffin. Furniture, carved statues, games, food, and other items useful to the next life were prepared to be buried with the mummy (Mark,