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*”egyptian mythology” is the collection of ‘myths’ from ‘ancient egypt’, which describe the actions of the ‘egyptian gods’ as a means of understanding the ‘world’*
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(the beliefs that these myths express are an important part of “ancient egyptian religion”)
(‘myths’ appear frequently in egyptian ‘writings’ and ‘art’, particularly in ‘short stories’ and in ‘religious material’ such as ‘hymns’, ‘ritual texts’, ‘funerary texts’, and ‘temple decoration’)
(these sources rarely contain a complete account of a ‘myth’ and often describe only brief fragments)
(inspired by the ‘cycles’ of nature, the egyptians saw ‘time’ in the present as a series of recurring patterns, whereas the earliest periods of time were linear)
(‘myths’ are set in these earliest times, and ‘myth’ sets the pattern for the cycles of the ‘present’)
(present events repeat the events of ‘myth’, and in doing so renew maat, the “fundamental order of the universe”)
(amongst the most important episodes from the ‘mythic past’ are the ‘creation myths’, in which the ‘gods’ form the universe out of ‘primordial chaos’; the stories of the reign of the sun god ‘ra’ upon the ‘earth’; and the ‘osiris myth’, ‘concerning the struggles of the gods ‘osiris’, ‘isis’, and ‘horus’ against the disruptive god “set”)
(events from the ‘present’ that might be regarded as ‘myths’ include ra’s daily journey through the world and its otherworldly counterpart, the “duat”)
(recurring themes in these ‘mythic episodes’ include the conflict between the upholders of ‘maat’ and the forces of disorder, the importance of the ‘pharaoh’ in maintaining maat, and the continual ‘death’ and ‘regeneration’ of the ‘gods’)
(the details of these sacred events differ greatly from 1 ‘text’ to another and often seem contradictory)
(‘egyptian myths’ are primarily ‘metaphorical’, translating the essence and behavior of deities into terms that humans can understand)
(each variant of a ‘myth’ represents a different ‘symbolic perspective’, enriching the egyptians’ understanding of the ‘gods’ + the ‘world’)
(‘mythology’ profoundly influenced ‘egyptian culture’)
(it inspired or influenced many ‘religious rituals’ and provided the ideological basis for ‘kingship’)
(‘scenes’ and ‘symbols’ from ‘myth’ appeared in ‘art’ in ‘tombs’, ‘temples’, and ‘amulets’)
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(in ‘literature’, ‘myths’ (or elements of them) were used in stories that range from ‘humor’ to allegory, demonstrating that the ‘egyptians’ adapted ‘mythology’ to serve a wide variety of purposes)
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