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    Egyptian mythology is comprised of myths from ancient Egypt that were used to understand the world. Myths featured the actions of Egyptian gods and appeared in writings, art, and religious texts. Some key gods and goddesses discussed include Anubis the god of mummification, Ra the sun god, Osiris the god of the afterlife, Hathor the mother goddess, Maat the goddess of truth and order, and Isis a major goddess involved in resurrecting Osiris and aiding the dead.

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    Egyptian mythology is comprised of myths from ancient Egypt that were used to understand the world. Myths featured the actions of Egyptian gods and appeared in writings, art, and religious texts. Some key gods and goddesses discussed include Anubis the god of mummification, Ra the sun god, Osiris the god of the afterlife, Hathor the mother goddess, Maat the goddess of truth and order, and Isis a major goddess involved in resurrecting Osiris and aiding the dead.

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    Egyptian mythology is comprised of myths from ancient Egypt that were used to understand the world. Myths featured the actions of Egyptian gods and appeared in writings, art, and religious texts. Some key gods and goddesses discussed include Anubis the god of mummification, Ra the sun god, Osiris the god of the afterlife, Hathor the mother goddess, Maat the goddess of truth and order, and Isis a major goddess involved in resurrecting Osiris and aiding the dead.

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    Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the

    Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them. The beliefs that these myths express
    are an important part of ancient Egyptian religion. Myths appear frequently in Egyptian writings and art,
    particularly in short stories and in religious material such as hymns, ritual texts, funerary texts, and
    temple decoration. These sources rarely contain a complete account of a myth and often describe only
    brief fragments.

    Anubis is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient
    Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Archeologists have
    identified Anubis's sacred animal as an Egyptian canid, the African golden wolf.

    Ra is the ancient Egyptian deity of the sun. By the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th and 24th centuries BC,
    he had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the
    noon sun. Ra was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the
    underworld.

    Osiris is the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and rebirth in ancient Egyptian religion. He was
    classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the
    legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. He was one of the first to
    be associated with the mummy wrap.

    Hathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky
    deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra, both of whom were
    connected with kingship, and thus she was the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the
    pharaohs. She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra's feminine counterpart, and
    in this form she had a vengeful aspect that protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side
    represented music, dance, joy, love, sexuality and maternal care, and she acted as the consort of several
    male deities and the mother of their sons.

    Maat or refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality,
    and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars,
    seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of
    creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet, meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil.

    Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-
    Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE) as one of the main
    characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her slain husband, the divine king Osiris, and
    produces and protects his heir, Horus. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had
    helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to Horus. Her
    maternal aid was invoked in healing spells to benefit ordinary people. Originally, she played a limited
    role in royal rituals and temple rites, although she was more prominent in funerary practices and
    magical texts.

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