Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (2016)(worldhistory.org) |
Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (2016)(worldhistory.org) |
Pick a deity, any deity. Your credulance is worth less than another's coin. Shall we spill some blood in sacrifice?
Oh look, the water's rising, see you next year with your rudimentary approximation of calcuable area.
How's Osiris getting on?
Something incredibly alluring about his lore.
Since Thoth is a shapeshifter, who knows their true name. Always comes in waves of three though.
When the black Nubian pharaohs reunited Egypt in the 8th century BC, they restored his temples in Memphis and claimed to have found an ancient first dynasty scroll that they copied to "the Shabaka Stone".
[Ptah made all the gods and Ptah] "is the one who makes… that which comes forth from every body, and from every mouth, of all gods, of all people, of all cattle, of all reptiles, which lives, thinking and commanding… everything that he wills….
The [gods] fashioned the sight of the eyes, the hearing of the ears, and the smelling of the nose, that they might furnish the desire of the heart. It (the heart) is the one that [brings] forth every successful issue. It is the tongue which repeats the thought of the heart; it (the heart) is the fashioner of all [gods], at the time when every divine word even came into existence by the thought of the heart, and command of the tongue…"
I see little value in such lists. The few paragraphs of general introduction are more interesting, but I don't think it's enough to understand how gods were perceived during the 3 millenniums of Ancient Egypt. For instance, there was an essential concept of "Maat" (order of the world). And some Egyptian gods could age and die.
If you're interested in the subject, I strongly recommend "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt" by E. Hornung.
Maybe to people especially interested in the subject, but to those with a casual interest, such lists can be a fun introduction to a subject as it provides a way to write a lot of little vignettes. Witness other comments to this post calling out and talking about some of the things they saw in this list that they liked.
This list is similar to explanations of quantum computing that claim the qbits solve all versions of the problem in parallel - it may give you a wrong intuition about what the subject even is. In this case, it may make you think that there were actual humans that worshiped all of these gods and only these gods - when in fact, over 3000 years of Egyptian civilization, gods changed and merged and so on; and most likely the very idea of worship and humans' relationship with the gods changed.
Was really hoping that this would continue with "... and who therefore gives his name to the garden shed / man cave", but alas there is apparently no such etymology
The civilization in some for or another existed form longer than the time that has elapsed between now and the founding of Rome.
Some in the list are not even different gods, just different names of the same God, and some are "recent" synchretic gods, when Greek/Roman ones merged with previous ones.
Fascinating stuff!
So, your idea seems plausible in some parallel earth-xyz :)
