Why Did the Egyptians Worship Animals?
Unlike some studies suggest , the Egyptians did not believe that the animals had special powers, but rather, that they symbolically represented the many attributes of God. Each animal embodied characteristics that could be evoked in order to accomplish a certain task. Egyptians included animals in their rituals when they wanted to symbolize a set of attributes, characteristics and strenght that a certain animal possessed. The Relationship Between Astrology and Animals Astrology and animals are related in the sense that each astrological sign represents the attributes of an animal. As reincarnationists, Egyptians believed that all humans are born many times in different bodies and in different places in order to acquire all the attributes of God and, by the end of the evolutive journey, possess all the twelve attributes given by each astrological sign. According to Egyptians, not only humans go through these many cycles of rebirth, also humanity goes through the same cycles. Each era re
