Who was the Egyptian god Isis?
Isis and her baby Horus (Middle Kingdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Isis, Osiris, and Set The god Isis, in Egyptian mythology, was married to her [...]
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Egyptian religion – Gods of ancient Egypt
Egyptian religion: Weighing the souls of the dead Polytheism and Egyptian religion As in the rest of Africa, the people of ancient Egypt were polytheistic throughout the Old Kingdom, the [...]
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Egyptian god Horus – Gods of Ancient Egypt
Good luck charm of the eye of the god Horus (Old Kingdom, ca. 2000 BC) Horus was the son of Re Horus was an Egyptian god, originally from Upper Egypt [...]
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What are canopic jars? Ancient Egypt
Canopic Jars from Egypt(Vatican Museum, Rome) When people died in ancient Egypt, if they were rich enough, they paid to have their body made into a mummy. Mummification preserved your body [...]
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Who was the African god Bes?
The Egyptian god Bes An African god Beginning about 2500 BC, near the end of the Old Kingdom period in Egypt, people started worshipping a new god, Bes. Nobody knows [...]
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Who was Anubis? – Ancient Egyptian god
The Egyptian god Anubis in the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Luxor (New Kingdom) Wolf head and black color Anubis was the way ancient Greek historians like Herodotus wrote the Egyptian [...]
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Amun – Egyptian god – religion in Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian god Amun is the blue figure in the center.(From the tomb of Rameses VI at Luxor) Why does Amun have blue skin? Amun (or Amon), in Egyptian religion, [...]
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Compare the Quran and the Bible project
Islamic image of Abraham and Ishmael Read parts of the Quran and the Bible. For example, read the story of Noah, or the story of Abraham and Isaac. Read the [...]
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Painting an icon – Middle Ages project
Byzantine icon of St. Catherine(1300s AD) In the Middle Ages, many people believed that a painting or statue of the Christian God, or Jesus, or Mary, or one of the saints, [...]
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What is Zen? A branch of Chinese Buddhism
Zen master Bodhidharma sitting alone Bodhidharma: the first Zen master In Zen Buddhist traditions (but nobody really knows), the first Zen master was a Brahman man called Bodhidharma. According to these [...]
