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Mythology Worlds
EGYPT
Gift of the Nile
Ancient Egypt was as ancient to the Ancient Greeks and Romans as Ancient Greece and Rome are to us!
Cleopatra (a Greek of the Ptolemaic era) lived closer in time to the 21st century C.E. than to when the Egypt pyramids were built!
Numbered Dynasties
Period by Period
Early Dynastic Period
1st and 2nd Dynasties
Old Kingdom
3rd to 6th Dynasties
First Intermediate Period
7th to 10th Dynasties
Middle Kingdom
11th and 12th Dynasties
Second Intermediate Period
13th to 17th Dynasties
New Kingdom
18th to 20th Dynasties
Third Intermediate Period
21st to 25th Dynasties
Late Period
26th to 31st Dynasties
Greek Period
32nd (Macedonian) and 33rd (Ptolemaic) Dynasties
Primary Sources on Egyptian Mythology
The Pyramid Texts
The Coffin Texts
The Book of the Dead
This may come as a shock to conspiracy theorists, but the Egypt pyramids were not built by space aliens.
Creation and Origins
Gods of Egypt
(not that horrible movie)
During their epic battle, Seth attempted to best Horus by "milking the cobra" at him, but Horus caught Seth's "baby grease" and threw it away.
Horus then went over to his mother Isis, who directed him to "stroke the obelisk" into Seth's lettuce patch.
Seth ate the lettuce and unknowingly swallowed Horus's "baby sauce";
...and that's how Horus defeated Seth!
Ritual Myths
The purpose of mummification was to preserve the physical body in death such that the soul may enter the afterlife.
Look up how mummies were made at your own risk.
Egyptian Mythical Creatures
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