"Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. Hence the English adjective "mythical" meaning "incredible" and hence the omission from standard European mythologies, such a...

Ancient Egyptian culture, throughout its many ups and downs, was consistently fixated around two features of their ethos: pharaohs and religion. In actuality, these two aspects go hand in hand, as the pharaoh was typically believed to be a living god. These ideals stood the test of time throughout ...

"To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it." - Henry Davi...

Sumerian vs Egyptian Deities The Sumerian and Egyptian cultures developed a rich and detailed mythology over the thousands of years of their existence. Each culture developed its own complex, polytheistic system of deities and worship. There are many aspects of both of these two culture's gods th...

Egyptian Cosmogony and other weirdness: The embodiment of a complex society formed long before it's rightful time is that of the Egyptians. Their mastery of both social and scientific knowledge was without equal, even by Roman standards. From a purely technical standpoint the stone wor...

The Heresy of Akhenaten: The Creation and Doctrine of the First Monotheism By Peter C. Kyle April 17, 2000 The history of the Pharaohs of Egypt has been but an endless line of king lists with few pharaohs of note and even fewer with any individual personality, as far as we can glea...

The Egyptian Hall at the Carnegie Museum is an excellent way to study ancient Egyptian culture. I was surprised to see all of the interesting facts I could gather about the culture I once knew very little about. The research project for my anthropology class taught me a lot about the history of Egyp...

During my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I observed many interesting paintings, sculptures, and artifacts. The two exhibits I chose to do my report on were "Anonymous Official," from the thirteenth dynasty in Egypt, (1783 B.C.), and "Head from a Herm" from the early Greek civilization, ...

Some assume that Amen (Amun, Amon) was a relatively modern god within the context of ancient Egyptian religion. His worship at Thebes, where the earliest known Temple dedicated to him was located, is only documented from the 11th Dynasty onward. Amen represented one of ancient Egypt's most compl...

Greek Comparison. The Greeks were, in my opinion, the pioneers of a functional government. I admire how they ran thier government, especially in Athens. "In earliest times, Athens was governed by a monarchy. A monarchy is a Greek work meaning 'ruled by one.' Soldiers handpicked thei...

Stosh Steward Western Civilization Mr. Nash 27 November 2001 Egyptian religion and its impacts Present day Egypt is riddled with tombs, pyramids, and other relics from their great history. Egyptís lure and mystism that attracts people of this age, is almost entirely attributed to the Egypti...

Râ was the centerpiece of the ancient Egyptian culture. Like other ancient cultures the Egyptians had a primary god who was believed to have created the universe and all its beings. This belief structured their entire religious and political doctrine. With this dogma their culture was unified ...

You climb the steep stairs of the temple. As you look around, you see the blood of your fellow prisoners pooled on the floor. You see the priests. They are caked with the blood of their former victims. You hear the drums start. They will muffle your screams. The time is 1531. The place is the...