CHAPTER XLII

readx;? It is said that all life was created by the god Ra, who invoked them by reciting the true name of each of them. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoSo everyone's real name has mysterious powers, so Rashen is very taboo to tell others his real name.

Isis conspires against the god Ra, and she wants her son Horus to take power. In one myth, Isis used Ra's saliva mixed with dirt to concoct a poisonous snake that attacked Ra while he was on a parade, and she demanded that Ra tell her her real name before she gave him the antidote. Ra fears that once she reveals her true name to Isis, she will be able to use all of her true name's power to control and confront him, and let Horus take over the throne. In the end, Ra God compromised, and Isis got his wish.

Serkite, the patron goddess of the deceased, the god of the breath of the deceased, is also the door god of one of the four gates of the underworld. Appears as a woman with a scorpion on her head. He petitioned for innocent people, was used as a helper for women during childbirth, and sent seven scorpions to protect Isis from Seth's persecution. He was the protector of Kuibenhammouf.

Sobek, the crocodile god, worships in Arshino. It is said to have four times the divinity because it has four elements: the fire of Ra, the air of Shu, the earth of Geb, and the water of Osiris. In the Book of the Dead, it protects the newborn Horus and helps Isis and Nephtis destroy Seth. He is the son of Nute, the crocodile-shaped water goddess revered in the Faiyum region and the patron goddess of the Nile Delta. During the Middle Kingdom, the belief in the god Sobek was popularized and became the main god of the land. Appears as a crocodile or crocodile-headed man.

The rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire put an end to the worship of the god Ra by the citizens of Egypt, and as a result, the influence of Ra quickly disappeared. Even among the Egyptian priests, the study of the god Ra had become a purely academic interest.

Since the ancient Egyptians attached great importance to religious beliefs, they built huge temples to worship the gods. During the New Kingdom, Egypt amassed unprecedented wealth through military expansion, but it was used to build temples during the reigns of several generations of pharaohs.

The gods of ancient Egypt all appeared in the form of symbols, plants or animals, such as the goddess Hathor as a cow perched on a banyan tree, Nephitis as a lotus flower, and the goddess Ness as a shield with two arrows crossed and nailed to it. But most of the gods appear in animal form, such as Henum is a ram, Horus is a falcon (a ferocious bird), Toth is a toise, Sobek is a crocodile, Bastet is a cat, and Edjo is a snake. In addition to various animals, some animals also become objects of worship as long as they meet certain conditions. Serapis, the bull of Memphis, is the most famous mythical beast, and it is also worshipped with the most ceremonies. The sacred cow is a live bull, which is fed by the priest in the temple, and after death it is guaranteed by a medicine, and the funeral is solemn, and then a bull of the same color is found to take over.

The cemetery of these mythical beasts is no less than the mausoleum of gods and emperors. There is a cat cemetery in Bubastis and Banne Hassan, a crocodile cemetery in Ambos, a toki cemetery in Ashmunein, a ram cemetery in Elefontan, and at the entrance to the catacombs of the sacred cow in Memphis there is a church where the body of the sacred cow is placed before the burial, which is comparable in size to the church in front of the flat-topped tombs of the Egyptian nobles. A steep passage leads to a long burial chamber containing the bodies of countless sacred cows from Ramses the Great over the centuries, each occupying a burial chamber, many of which line up in long rows along a 320-foot-long passageway, with the addition of later tombs from the Tomel period, which are 1,120 feet long. The worship of the sacred cow ends here.

The main corridor of the Sacred Cow Tomb is a large tomb dug out of exposed rock, which is actually composed of several intersecting corridors, and there are burial chambers on the left and right sides of the large corridor, in which the sacred sacred cow mummies are placed. There are a total of 64 burial chambers in the Temple of the Sacred Cow in Memphis. In the center of each burial chamber is a huge sarcophagus from the time of Amasis. These sarcophagi are all chiseled from shiny smooth black or red granite. Each is about 9 high. 6 feet, about 6 wide. 4 feet, estimated to weigh about 72,000 kilograms, and the smallest one is at least 65,000 kilograms.

Slave-owning monarchs were called sons of the gods or incarnations of gods, maintaining their dominance not only in this life but also in the next, and the pharaohs would use the land for the construction of mausoleums or give local temples to ensure their worship after death, so they built for themselves the "eternal palace" of the underground world, the pyramids. The pyramids built by Josser, Khufu and his descendants are an unforgettable symbol of ancient Egyptian civilization (and the power of the pharaohs). The world-famous pyramids are a product of the ancient Egyptians' worship of the idea of eternity and the tombs of the pharaohs. In fact, both the pyramids and the Sphinx originated in the Atlantean civilization. Only mummies are a unique form of burial in Egypt.

Menes found that although the capital city of Tini was suitable as the capital of Upper Egypt, it was not suitable for the unified countries of Upper and Lower Egypt, so Menes established a new capital at the junction of the river valley and the delta, that is, the site of the decisive battle, at the junction of the original Upper and Lower Egypt, a fortified city - the White City (a city surrounded by white walls), which was later called Memphis by the Greeks, and the ruins were in the village of Miit Rasina, 23 kilometers southwest of Cairo. Menes also built a long embankment to prevent the city from flooding when the Nile flooded. The main purpose of the city was to strengthen its control over Lower Egypt, to make full use of the rich agricultural and labor force of the Nile Delta, as well as the lucrative trade routes to the Levant, and to effectively prevent counter-attacks from the delta.

Located at the southern end of the Nile Delta in Egypt, Memphis later became the oldest capital of Egypt, with its capital for 800 years, and was one of the most magnificent and great cities in the world at that time, and was a famous religious and cultural city in Egypt. Destroyed in 700 BC. Also known as Jigaput, which means "the palace of the god Ptah", from which the Greek name of Egypt "Egyptian Putos" is derived, which is also the origin of the name of the Egyptian state.

According to Russell's History of Western Philosophy: "The development of Egyptian civilization was due to the presence of the Nile, which made agriculture easy and abundant. There is a divine king with despotic power who has all the land. There is a kind of polytheism here, and the king has a special intimate relationship with the supreme god of this polytheistic religion. There were military aristocrats, and there were priestly aristocrats. If the monarch is cowardly or the war is unfavorable, the priestly nobility is often able to encroach on the royal power. The cultivators of the land were serfs, subordinate to kings, nobles, or priests. ”