They later transferred these animals and their characteristics to the divine realm, so by the dawn of dynastic Egypt in 3100 B.C., the gods were taking animal forms. Ancient Egyptian belief ...

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Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, etc. Some are far more obscure. But that in ...

Egyptian Animals Were Mummified Same Way as Humans. Animals were viewed not only as pets, but as incarnations of gods—and were buried by the millions to honor ancient Egypt's deities.

Animal cults flourished outside the established state temples for much of Egyptian history and animals played a critical role in Egypt’s spiritual life. The gods themselves sometimes took animal ...

While Osiris is often considered the Egyptian god of the underworld or god of the dead, experts told Live Science it's not that simple. It would be a mistake to call Osiris a god of death, Andrea ...

Not far off, animal breeders likely raised dogs and other creatures that would later be mummified in honor of the gods. "It would have been a busy place," Nicholson told Live Science.