Religion
Egyptian leaders called ________ were closer to the Gods because of their level of leadership and power.
Pharaohs
The gods Amun-Re and _____ gift the pharaoh with an identically shaped knives as a divine assurance of perpetual rule in two wall reliefs at his temple in Abydos.
Horus
In ancient egypt, foreigners were seen as...
enemies, sources of chaos that needed to be contained or even eradicated.
Name the art piece:
Bound ______ Prisioner
Bound Nubian Prisoner
___________ offerings were the way to gain larger amounts of protection from the Gods.
Sacrificial
Egyptians took “magic ______” and placed them on top of pregnant women’s stomachs. In doing this, some type of “repellent” was dispersed and allowed for diseases to go away from the soon-to-be newborn, so there could be a safe and healthy birth, as well as child.
knives
Egyptian's thought Egypt was the center of the
Universe
Egyptians valued ______ more than physical strength or military power.
literacy
____________ which also means “The Powerful One” is the daughter of the sun- god Ra. You can identify her by the sun-disk and cobra on her brow. She was dispatched abroad to destroy Egypts enemies.
Sekhmet
If someone willingly cut off a body part for the purpose of religious offering, would it be sacred or profane?
Sacred
What is the name of the Egyptian script that is cursive rather than hieratic. Not Hierogylphs!
Demotic Script
Name traits of the of the Birth God whose form was created into amulets to combat an increase in infant mortality.
He has the form of a dwarf and because dwarfs rarely survived infancy in antiquity he was considered magical.
The amulet combined dwarf attributes and those of the male birth god who appeared as a lion man, craftsmen produced a new more powerful projector of women and children.