How did the gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represent both the natural and human characteristics? Give an example in your response. Make reference to items found in text readings page 74-76 (top of the page)
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Billi Castle
4/4/2011 01:57:16 am
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Rebecca Taylor
4/4/2011 02:02:47 am
Gods and Goddessess have human characteristics and traits. They Acctually look like human beings, and they have relationships. They get married, and they have families just like humans.
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Janelle Lindbergh
4/4/2011 02:03:32 am
The gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represent both the natural and human characteristics because they believed tht immortal beings influenced all aspects of nature and every human activity.
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courtney lampreau
4/4/2011 02:04:59 am
the gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represented both natural and human characteristics by what they left and gave to the people to help them. they also represented religion and the people in Egypt believed heavily in the afterlife which the gods were involved in...
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Karina Pelayo
4/4/2011 02:05:52 am
In Egyptian religion, the people believed that gods were only half immortal, possessing traits that regular humans did. They still needed to eat and rest, and had feelings. Having the body of a person represented that the deities were human in a way, but represented a form of nature/, such as water, the land, the heavens, and activities that were natural to Egyptians, such as farming, worship, and rest.
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Adam VanderZwan
4/4/2011 02:06:20 am
In ancient Egypt, the gods represented natural characteristics because they were associated with the life-giving forces of nature. Gods and goddesses would control all life on earth and earthly characteristics such as the sun, water, fire, wind, harvesting, fertility, and the list goes on with more than 80 gods. Osiris ruled over vegetation and death, and represented the constant renewal of life along the Nile. Gods also had human and animal characteristics because many of them took human form and had the head of an animal. An example would be Seth, god of the desert, who had a human body the head of a donkey. Normally, the animal would represent the certain trait the the god possesses.Also, gods would marry each other and have little godlings.
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Billi Castle
4/4/2011 02:10:16 am
My bad D':
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Kiera Stel
4/4/2011 02:10:34 am
The gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represented both the natural and human characteristics by taking the form of animals who's characteristics they embodied (mainly represented by an animal head), and human bodies. The gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt were anthropomorphic, meaning they also resembled humans; many deities had bodies of humans. The Egyptian gods and goddesses had relationships, marriages, children, etc. just like humans do. One example of this animal/human combination would be Horus, god of the sky and heaven, who was pictured with the head of a falcon (symbolizing swiftness) and the body of a human man. Another example of this is Anubis. Anubis was represented with the head of a jackal, an animal who prowled at night, and destroyed desert grave sites. He was the god who guided people to the afterlife, presided over embalming rituals and heard prayers on behalf of the dead. The Egyptians had many gods and goddesses, and they frequently accepted news gods and goddesses into their pantheon from other civilizations.
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Brittany Stamer
4/4/2011 02:15:25 am
All Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses were related to nature life forces. Gods on earth were seen as mortals to the people believing in them, meaning they had different duties such as farming, fertility and the running of water down the Nile. The god Horus was the god of sky and lord of heaven and in photographs had the head of a falcon to represent his characteristics of swiftness and strength. Horus represented natural and human characteristics of an ancient Egyptian god.
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Jess Ullian
4/4/2011 02:16:47 am
Gods and Goddesses have both natural and human characteristics from taking the form of animal heads, and human bodies. The Egyptian gods and goddesses had everything just like normal human beings, marriages, relationships, children... everything.
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Katie Seaward
4/4/2011 02:20:54 am
The gods and goddesses represented both nature and humanity with there characteristics by not only there physical features but also there outlooks on life. There belief system shows you the animal side because they worship cats jackals... etc. While there lifestyles-building pyramids- show the more materialistic side of them that would be human. There physical features are that the head of an animal and the body of men and women.
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Katie Janicki
4/4/2011 02:26:10 am
The natural and human characteristics of the gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt were represented not only through appearance, but through their behaviour as well. The Egyptians' gods and goddesses were perceived as influential and the root of all life and death. They had the bodies (torso, arms, legs) of human beings, as well as specific, human-like characteristics that separated each god and goddess apart.
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Justin Hardy
4/4/2011 02:27:42 am
The gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represented both the natural and human characteristics at the same time by their bodies and spirit. For example they have human bodies and animal heads so they are believed to take the looks of the animals and the humans body. They also shared traits of humans and animals at the same time so they were almighty and powerful yet they still shared traits with their worshippers so they where trusted and relied upon heavily. For example the sun god Re was relied heavily upon by the Egyptians for a good harvest.
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Teri Jack
4/4/2011 02:39:04 am
The Egyptians during ancient Egypt believed that the gods and goddesses were influenced by all aspects of nature and every human activities. A lot of the Egyptians gods were identified with life-giving forces of nature. They had worshipped 80 or more gods and goddesses. For example Anubis the god that guided people to the after life had the head of a jackal, the animal that prowled at night and destroyed desert grave sites.
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Lydia Tuaiti
4/4/2011 02:44:38 am
Many Egyptian gods were associated with life-giving forces of nature. The Egyptians believed that the gods were responsible for all that happened on earth including fertility, flooding, fire, harvest, vegetation, and death. Ancient Egyptian deities embodied the characteristics of the animal he or she represented. For example, a dog or cat represented loyalty. It was believed that gods and goddesses needed to eat and drink. They could also get married and have children. Pharaohs were also believed to be "human gods". This ment that they were still immortal but they held some supernatural ability. In all Egyptian culture was based around their gods and everything that they did was to please their deities.
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Chelsea Zirk
4/6/2011 03:41:34 am
The gods and goddesses in ancient egypt represented or reflected human beings because they had traits and appearances of human beings. They ate, drank, and developed relationships; they married, and gave birth, and they experienced emotion - anger, hate, jealousy, and love.
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Griffin Hockey
4/7/2011 03:59:12 am
Gods and goddesses of ancient egypt are seen as half human half beast because gods are asumed to be in control of every aspect of egyption life. For example. If you pissed off Isis, the goddess of fertility, you may not be abled to have a baby.
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Samantha Ullian
4/13/2011 04:06:48 am
Gods and Goddesses have both natural and human characteristics they have heads of animals and bodies of humans. Gods and Goddesses have the human quality of feelings, they get angry, sad, happy ect .
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Daniel McIntosh
5/19/2011 06:55:19 am
In its 3500 odd years ancient egypt went through alot of gods and goddess, all used as an explanation for a specific aspect of nature (such as Horus the god of sky and heaven). At different points in history different gods became associated with different aspects of nature or became disassociated from a part of nature (like Hathor, who went from being goddess of beauty, to goddess of drunkenness).
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Kristen Senner
5/24/2011 03:16:21 am
The gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt represented both the natural and human characteristics because they each had a specific natural element that they represented but also had many human characteristics.
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Charlie Yurkiw
5/26/2011 07:36:25 am
Gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt represented both the natural and human characteristics, usually being half of each. They were human for their emotions and upper body features.
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