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What was ancient Egypts religion called?

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What was ancient Egypts religion called?

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Being Egyptian. The separation of religious beliefs from other aspects of daily life in a given culture is mostly a modern phenomenon, and almost always something that happens from the outside, not the inside. Most contemporaries would have considered following Egyptian practices part of a person “being Egyptian” if they had come in contact with the culture (this would have mostly been traders). The exception might have been the Israelites, who were nomadic but a rarity as their “state religion” was monotheistic. (Ok, there was that weird “monotheistic” Pharoh Aknaten, but I’d barely count him.) They may have had a name for the Egyptian religious practices, but it wouldn’t have been very nice.

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The religion of Ancient Egypt was a polytheistic (many gods) religion with one short period of monotheism (one god). Their religion hosted about 700 different gods and goddesses. In addition, it was not uncommon for deities to be combined to form a new deity.

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