The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish ( the only three religions officially recognized by the government ).

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

The practices of Egyptian religion were efforts to provide for the gods and gain their favor.

The beliefs and rituals now referred to as " Ancient Egyptian religion " existed within every aspect of Egyptian culture.

Ancient Egyptian religion was not a monolithic institution, but consisted of a vast and varying set of beliefs and practices, linked by their common focus on the interaction between the world of humans and the world of the divine.

In particular, this is true of a few gods who, at various times in history, rose to supreme importance in Egyptian religion.

Because of theological statements like this, many past Egyptologists, such as Siegfried Morenz, believed that beneath the polytheistic traditions of Egyptian religion there was an increasing belief in a unity of the divine, moving toward monotheism.

He therefore argued that, while some individuals may have henotheistically chosen one god to worship, Egyptian religion as a whole had no notion of a divine being beyond the immediate multitude of deities.

This latter goal was central to Egyptian religion.

The common slogan al-islam dinun was dawlatun ` ( translation: Islam is a religion and a state ) is neither a Koranic verse nor a quote from the hadith, but a 19th century political Salafi slogan popularized in opposition to Western Egyptian influence.

* Ancient Near Eastern religion, Egyptian mythology

* Anubis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις ) is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Osiris was widely worshiped as Lord of the Dead until the suppression of the Egyptian religion during the Christian era.

** Ancient Egyptian religion

as " the unity of religion and politics, of spirit and nature, of god and man ", qualified by the observation that " man " in the Pagan view is always defined by ethnicity, i. e. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Jew, etc., so that each Pagan tradition is also a national tradition.

When Egyptian influence declined or succumbed to foreign domination, the Kushite elite regarded themselves as central powers and believed themselves as idols of Egyptian culture and religion.

Sun worship was prevalent in ancient Egyptian religion.

In Arabic superstition, the qarînah () is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia ( see Arabian mythology ).

3150 BC ) the legitimacy of the dominion of a Pharaoh ( god – king ) was theologically established by doctrine that posited the pharaoh as the Egyptian patron god Horus, son of Osiris.

The Etruscans shared general early Mediterranean beliefs, such as the Egyptian belief that survival and prosperity in the hereafter depend on the treatment of the deceased's remains.

The phoenix appears in Egyptian, Arabian, Chinese, Russian and native American folklore and in all instances symbolizes strength, vision, inspiration and survival.

The monuments in both islands indeed attested, beyond any others in the Nile valley, the survival of pure Egyptian art centuries after the last of the Pharaohs had ceased to reign.

Since similar instruments appear in ancient Egyptian frescoes and reliefs, some believe that they may represent a survival from a very old tradition.

* Egyptian soul

* Egyptian soul

The Egyptian word for part of the soul Ba was also used as a word meaning ram, therefore, Aken was usually depicted as being ram-headed.

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* Ka ( Egyptian soul )

An important part of the Egyptian soul was thought to be the Ib ( jb ), or heart.

The idea of a purely immaterial existence was so foreign to Egyptian thought that when Christianity spread in Egypt they borrowed the Greek word psyche to describe the concept of soul and not the term Ba.

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In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Meskhenet, ( also spelt Mesenet, Meskhent, and Meshkent ) was the goddess of childbirth, and the creator of each child's Ka, a part of their soul, which she breathed into them at the moment of birth.

* Ba ( Egyptian soul ), one part of the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul

Historically, the deity that was venerated at Egyptian Mendes was a ram deity Banebdjed ( literally Ba of the lord of djed, and titled " the Lord of Mendes "), who was the soul of Osiris.

This resurrected mummy character was revived by combining his original soul with his mummified body using a magical spell granted by the god Osiris himself ( in the case of Egyptian mummies ), ancient Inca spirits ( in the case of South American mummies ) or the Eight Immortals, in the case of Chinese mummies.

An Egyptian manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris contains the representation of a soul going to judgement in which one of the figures is depicted with the head of a rat and the well-known wig.

* Ren, a part of the soul in Egyptian mythology

Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul

However, he sets a trap in the museum so that when Dark Yugi holds the Egyptian God Cards in front of the tablet and reawakens his memories, his soul is transported to a table with a tabletop RPG powered by the memories set on top.

Sharing his body with Atem's soul under the alias of Yami Yugi, Yugi goes on to become the King of Games, the world's greatest player of the trading card game Duel Monsters, by defeating his rival Seto Kaiba and obtaining the three powerful Egyptian God cards.

The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra.

In the following year, Angham conceived " Awal Gawab " ( The First Answer ), her second record, as a homage to Egyptian soul music composer, Sayed Makkawy, and she worked with a variety of lyricists on the record.

Though the last act was enough to agonize the soul of an Egyptian sphinx, it was, artistically speaking, always within bounds.