Culture
What animal did the Egyptians worship?
Cats
Birth, adulthood, and death
What was Osiris originally the God of?
Vegetation
Who is the main hero in Egyptian Myth?
Horus
What does the Sphinx represent?
Wisdom
What did mud-brick represent compared to what stone represented in architecture?
Where does Re travel to at night?
The underworld
Who is the king of the Gods?
Who is the mother figure?
Isis
What creatures devours the hearts of the impure?
Ammit
What was the point of Egyptian burial rituals?
To achieve immortality after life. (Ka and Ba)
Nun and Naunet are the Gods of what?
Water
Who is the ruler of the underworld?
Osiris
Who is the mentor (not Thoth) figure?
Osiris
What is the Egyptian afterlife called?
The Field of Reeds
What was the name of the divine order that the Hieroglyphs were meant to keep?
Ma'at
What was the goose's name?
The great cackler
Who is the protector of the dead?
Anubis
What is the great monster that could destroy the world?
What creature opposes the sun God, Ra?
Apophis
What were 2 of the 4 types of popular jewelry and what did they represent?
Heart Scarabs - safe passage to afterlife
Eye of Horus - used for daily protection
Ankh - eternal life
Scarab Beetle - daily rebirth
Who was in Re's secret council?
Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nun
When Ra goes to the underworld, what animal is on his head?
Who loosely fits the trickster archetype in Egyptian Myth?
Set
How is a dead person's soul judged?
Weighed in comparison to the feather of truth