Can someone explain the ancient Egyptian religion to me?
Its a large topic but I hope this helps: Various evidence suggests that even very early Egyptians had concepts of spiritualism. The care with which the dead were buried in the prehistoric period, and the afterlife belief implied by that care, certainly suggests that the necessary intellectual sophistication was present. During the chalcolithic period, which lasted through most of the fourth millennium BC in Egypt, offers us our first clear evidence for a belief in gods. At least in the last centuries of prehistory the Egyptians worshiped divine power in animal form. Then, at the beginning of the historical period, the human view changes drastically regarding the superiority of animals. Apparently, mankind was no longer feeling subjected to incomprehensible powers and so the powers that were worshiped as deities came more and more to show a human face as their original animal or inanimate form changed into a human one. So this evolution from dynamism to personalism took place shortly af
