EGYPTIAN'S RITUALS

In the egyptian civilizaron the men is conformed of two spirituals elements: the “ BA “ AS THE SOUL, and the “ KA” like the second body.

Death represented the separation of de body and the spirit; but the “KA” couldn´t survive without the body, for this reason began to do tools of storing to mantend the “KA”.
Above bandages will put the sarcophagi to serve as substitutes of the body , if the mommy was destroyed, next to the deceased was puted figures , called USHEBITS, to serve to the late.

Funeral, was a walk to the tomb, and a priest was forward ant the slaves back with food and jewelry, when the people were in the tomb the priest does the last ceremony named “ THE OPENING OF THE MOUNTH” that consisted in give the total authority to the late of use all the organs of their body.

Finally, in the tomb the servants put all the elements and things necessary to survive in the other world .

BY: ALBA GONZALEZ

200620968

SPORTS...

There are too many sports in ancient egypt, many of today´s sports were practise by them. A lot of the rules used in different sports were originated in ancient egypt

Ancient Egypt kings and princes enjoy sports competitions, they encourage and provided wich the necesary equipment.
Drawings on pharaonic monuments show that the Egyptians had laid down basic rules for games, chosen a neutral referee, a uniform for players and means of announcing the winners by ghiving them differents collars.

Ancient Egyptians played a game that is similar to our present-day hockey. Drawings on tombs show players holding bats made of long palm-tree branches, with a bent end similar to that of the hockey bat. The hockey ball was made of compressed papyrus fibers covered with two pieces of leather in the shape of a semicircle. another sport was Swimming, it was the favorite sport of the ancient Egyptians, who made use of the River Nile to practice it. The Nile was not the only place for swimming contests. Noblemen's palaces had swimming pools in which princes learned the sport.

there are some othres sports practice in ancient Egypt:
Handball,Gymnastics (floor exercises), Gymnastics (consecutive vault), Javelin Throw, Fishing, Boxing,Weightlifting,Equestrian Sports, High Jump, Rowing, Archery, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Tug of Hoop.
Ancient Egypt was a very dynamic civilization , so it came to build huge monuments that today are causing great admiration throughout the public.


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Rituals

Maria Carolina Barón Aristizábal
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Egyptian Rituals


The activities that are related to rituals are continually changing because of the culture and the global evolution, for example nowadays we don’t see rituals very often.

One of the most significant rituals for Egyptians was the transformation of images into human figures; this ritual was known as the ritual of opening the mouth and the eyes. Ancient Egyptians practiced this ritual in statues, mommies, coffins, and in front of the tombs. The Egyptians touched the mouth of mommies and statues with tools to give life to the spirits, giving in this way the possibility of breath, eat, drink and see. But exactly the goal of this ritual was to make born the statue to give it life because of that, they use different kind of tools that people used in the birth of kids. When the Egyptians practiced this ritual they wrote the name of the person that manages the ceremony and the names of the instruments that they used.

Also they practiced a ritual for death people, because they believed in life after death and also they thought that the soul traveled further in because when someone die they conserved the body with the process of mummification, but this process only applied for rich people and pharaohs, this process started 2 or 3 days after death during 70 days and is one of the most remembered rituals of Egyptian people and also it is an icon to identify and to relate Egyptians.

Rituals are very relevant for ancient cultures because they established the difference from each other, and also rituals could be the point to recognize a specific civilization.









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Egyptian goddess

The religious beliefs of ancient Egypt were developed around 3000 years. For this reason the Egyptian goddess were too many, and too diverse, in fact because they brepresented the human-life areas . That diversity can be exposed mentioning the divinities of Isis and Osiris . They were twice of the most relevant goddess: a lot of egyptian tribes believed in them.

They had a representative role in the life of the people in those times .

Isis, was know as " The mother of every goddess", she was the most popular divinity of ancient Egypt: people loved her.

She was the mother of Horus: In contrast Osiris was a frightful deity, he was a " dead God" and the "God of Death". Isis means life , and protectionof it. In the other hand Osiris has a terrible story of treason and death. Also the genre of each one is different , Isis was a woman, and Osiris was a man.

Like a similarity, is important the fact they have the same origin:in fact they were brothers , and also lovers:so they have in common their son , Horus . Both were inmortalized for the people in another personality, it means that Osiris became the Sun (Ra), and Isis - as the Ra's wife- was assimilated as Hator , the "wife of the Sun".

In conclusin, is evident that this Goddess represent areas of the human life , in this case the most relevant aspects of existence , the life and death. From the ancient times , to nowadays , some cultures still believes in those Goddess, like every religion on this earth, they are the support of their lives, they always have been, and probably, they always will be.

by: Alba gonzalez

TWO GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient egypt was a civilization characterized to be a polytheistic civilization, they had several gods that represented different things for Egyptians. gods governed everything, from the sun and the moon, until love wisdom and war.

I am going to write about the similarities and defferences between two gods: osiris and isis.

One similarities between osis and isis was that both were recognized as some of the most popular and essencioal gods in the whole Egyptian. Another similarity was that both belonged to the osiriac triad, the triad was an organization where was the most relevant gods.

The differences among these two gods basically are each one represented different things: isis was dennominated "great goddes mother" "Great magic ", etc... in contrast osiris was "the god of resurrection" symbol of the fertility" and regeneration of the nile.
Anoter difference was that the praise that surrended each god was different. the praise to isis was buildings or santuaries for her. but to osiris the praise consisted on remembering the death, funerar and resurrection.

The differences and similarities among these two gods are some for all the gods in ancient egypt, because each god represented something different and the praise was different for each one, the similarities was the impact to each god.


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Heroes and heroines

We are going to talk about the main characteristics and roles during his periods of government and about the reasons that make that these women were so famous and remembered. Also we are going to realize that these queens were very significant to the ancient civilization not only because of their beauty, but also because of their historical acts. In this essay we are going to compare Cleopatra and Nefertiti, both of them queens of the ancient civilization of Egypt,

Both of them were beautiful ladies of Egypt, as we know Cleopatra is remembered because of her beauty but Nefertiti too, because her name means “the beauty arrives”, another similarity is that they govern Egypt during long time periods, also they developed an excellent role in the political aspect for example Cleopatra fought with her brother to obtain the power and the control of Egypt, and Nefertiti fought with many people to have influence in politics to obligate her husband to built the new capital of the empire. And the last thing in common between these heroines is that both of them had the ability to dominate men, because each one used different kinds of tools to maintain men over his domain.

Also we can recognize differences between Cleopatra and Nefertiti, for example the characteristics, Cleopatra was very classy, exotic and she had power to seduce men, also she has many knowledge in politics intelligence, but Nefertiti was very strong, feminist and delicate, also she participated in politics and religion, at the same time she was worried about family, while Cleopatra participated mostly in politics. Another big difference is the style of life because Cleopatra had a style very opened and we could say that she had a crazy life, like a free life, but Nefertiti had a style too conservative, like kind of modest; it is possible that the style of life determines the way of death, for example Cleopatra drink a poison to suicide and Nefertiti death because of a disease.

All in all, these heroines of the ancient Egypt had differences and similarities according to their goals; it is significant to recognize that both of them triumph in what they propose not only because of their beauty, they triumph because of the abilities previously mentioned.





By: María Carolina Barón Aristizábal