PHARAOH
The Pharaoh was the supreme authority in the Egyptian social pyramid, the word “Pharaoh” means “great house”. The Pharaoh was
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ancient
PYRAMID
The pyramid is the characteristic architectural structure of the royal tombs of the Ancient and of the Middle Reign. Inside
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ISIS GODDESS
Osiris’s bride and sister. To her goes the institution of the family and the teaching to the women of the
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CATS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
One of the most popular cults in Egypt, in the Late Period, was the one to the cat-goddess Bastet. In this period
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THEBES
Ancient city and, for many centuries, capital of Upper Egypt, built on the banks of the Nile, at about 725
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Ancient Egypt: God Ra
Ra, deification of the visible sun, he was worshipped in various places in Egypt before the theology in Eliopolis took
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Text of the pyramids
The text of the pyramids consist of 800 invocations written in coloums inside the pyramids of the Late ancient reign and of
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The concepts of ka, ba and akh was formulated for the first time in the Pyramid Texts. Ka: “the vital strength
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Dreams in the ancient Egyptians
The importance given to dreams in this historical period is expressed in the dialogus between goddess Isis and Horus: “Horus, my son, tell
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Sphinx
Sphinx in Giza has a human head and the body of a lion. The fusion of the two elements, zoomorfo
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