Ancient Egyptian Relgion

The Nile is the single geographical factor that had such a fundamental and profound impact on the shaping of Egyptian life, society, and history. Unlike the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians never feared the Tigris; instead they praised it. With the astonishing fertility of the Nile valley, it made it easy to produce agricultural surplus. With that, the population was quickly growing, and was the region's principal "highway", causing for easy communications throughout. Egypt developed into a region that would be known for its, Pyramids, Pharaohs, Polytheism, Mummies, afterlife, and of course, The Nile.

The focal point of religious and political life in the Old Kingdowm was the pharaoh. A pharaoh commanded the wealth, resources, and people of all Egypt. Horus, the son of Osiris, was linked and even more important. He was the mediator between the gods and the Egyptian people. The integration between gods and humans beings, between nature and society, that ensured peace and prosperity for the land of the Nile. The surroundings must be worthy of a god for a king. The word pharaoh means "great house", later (in the Eighteenth Dynasty) did it come to mean "king." It was so great, that even after life he reposed in a great pyramid.

A pyramid was a massive tomb that contained all that was needed by the pharaoh in his afterlife. From the inscribed walls to dreary spells, they were all related to the king's journeys after death. This was also another way to symbolize a king's power and his connection with the sun-god. To ensure the pharaoh's undisturbed peace, they concealed the pyramid after burial. This began what they would call they're afterlife. Their afterlife consisted of what they thought would be like the life they previously lived, which to them was absolutely perfect