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Religious features
) Again worship varied . There was individual prayer . There were community celebrations . There was worship and rituals within temples . Since the general populous could not go into the temples , there was no public worship in the temples . The major public worship ceremonies would be those where the god was carried out of the temple in a shrine and paraded around town for people to see and returned to the temple . Within temples an ordained/purified priesthood carried out the daily , monthly and seasonal rituals . Also , many of the deities in ancient Egypt were related to natural phenomenon and worship may have been developed as a respect for that (such asrepresentation of the Nile floods , appearance of certain stars , beginning of growing season , etc . ) . Christianity has recognized Sunday as the day of worship . ) This varies immensely by god . Some of the more common rituals include waking , feeding , bathing , clothing , singing to , and putting the god to bed in the evening . These would have happened on a daily basis . Each temple would have had additional rituals during the month . Funerals seem to be times of transition for the deceased . They are passing from this life into the afterlife . The corpse and spirit are ritually brought to the tomb and a variety of rituals are performed to assist them in making the passage to the afterlife where they are reborn in the Egyptian version of paradise . The funerals include much weeping and wailing , but also include a festival meal and libations for the decease There afterlife was a place where they were reborn in the company of the gods . It mainly included all of what they held dear in this world and many others , especially cool ) There afterlife was a place where they were reborn in the company of the gods . It mainly included all of what they held dear in this world and many others , especially cool breezes , good food , a nice place to live , etc . This is a most discussed question . We assume that everyone could make it to the afterlife , but the social position of the dead in the afterlife mirrored that of the resent world . If you were a commoner here , you will be a commoner there . They did fear death , but also recognized it was mainly an area that they have not experienced and thus that can be a very daunting thing . Yes , they did both regular and burnt offerings . It was normal that the produce of fields owned by temples was offered to the gods . It normally happened that the priests were then given a portion of that as their salaries once the god had consumed that part which he/she wanted . What was buried with the deceased was entirely based upon their social / economic standing . Wealthier people had more stuff , poorer had less ) Not in the sense that some beliefs from India have the spirit reborn into a different or better physical form in this world . Rather we need to remember that their rebirth was confined to the afterlife . Pyramids were restricted to those who could afford them such as kings and queens . We do see in the New Kingdom (1500 - 1100 BC) private individuals begin to place mini-pyramids on the tops of their personal tombs , but again those individuals were wealthy and could afford that extravagance . The gods were in charge of maintaining the world . Thus the king did his job of maintaining the country in good order and the gods rewarded him with a long reign (or so the theory goes) . People worships the gods because the world belonged to them and if people disrupted the world , the gods could remove their protection over the people . It was definitely a system where the gods had the upper hand so to speak Related Articles ..
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