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category 5: religion
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8 long essay articles:
- The iconography of the divine
- Cosmogony
- Pantheon
- Gender in the divine world
- Animal gods
- Interaction between the human and the divine
- Cult and Ritual
- Funerary Beliefs
- Religious Change
110 encyclopedia entries (32 of which about individual deities):
- Supernatural beings – 16 + 32 entries
- [pantheon – essay article section ‘religion’]
- [gender in the divine world – essay article section ‘religion’]
- categories of deities - 10
- anthropomorphic deities
- child deities
- deified humans
- mammalian deities
- avian deities
- reptile, amphibian, fish deities
- invertebrate and insect deities
- deities of inanimate objects
- deities of time
- deified personifications
- groupings and hierarchies of deities
- names of deities (etymologies & formation)
- epithets (forms & function)
- individual deities - 32
- Amun
- Anubis
- Aten
- Atum
- Bastet
- Bes
- Geb
- Hathor
- Horus
- Isis
- Khnum
- Khonsu
- Min
- Montu
- Mut
- Nefertem
- Neith
- Nephthys
- Nun
- Nut
- Osiris
- Ptah
- Re / Rehorakhty
- Sarapis
- Seth
- Shu
- Sobek
- Sokar
- Taweret
- Tefnut
- Thoth
- Wepwawet
- etc
- demons (benevolent and malevolent)
- foreign deities (worshipped in Egypt)
- akh beings
- religious concepts and beliefs – 17 entries
- [iconography of the divine – essay article section ‘religion’]
- nature of the divine (including poly-, mono-, heno-, pantheism)
- syncretism
- solar religion
- Amarna religion
- Osirian beliefs
- time & eternity
- ma’at
- heka
- regeneration
- evil
- purity and pollution
- taboo and transgression
- fate
- mysticism
- theodicy
- duality
- secrecy and knowledge
- mythology – 5 entries
- [cosmogonic myths – essay article section ‘religion’]
- Osiris myth complex
- Horus & Seth
- myths of the eyes
- myth of the heavenly cow
- etiological myths
- sacred space – 4 entries
- [sacred geography – essay article section ‘geography’]
- [temples and shrines – see, architecture, section 8]
- sacred space - djeser
- sacred landscape features
- necropolis
- abaton
- cult and ritual – 18 entries
- [cult and ritual – essay article section ‘religion’]
- offering
- animal sacrifice
- recitations
- procession
- rituals - 7
- Opening the Mouth
- daily ritual
- rituals performed for the king
- execration rituals
- rituals related to animal cult
- initiation rituals
- funerary rituals
- many entries possible
- festivals - 6
- Sed festival (see, kingship under ‘individual and society’)
- Beautiful Feast of the Valley
- Opet festival
- Khoiak festival
- festivals of the Greco-Roman period temples
- oracle (involving processional bark)
- festival calendars (see, history & time)
- temple furniture and cult objects (see, material culture)
- religious personnel [see, individual & society]
- priests and priestly titles
- organization of priesthood
- cult associations
- [initiation rites – see, above]
- mortuary beliefs and practices – 12 entries
- [funerary beliefs – essay article section ‘religion’]
- topography of the beyond
- symbolic journeys, post-mortem
- judgment at death / negative confession
- mummification
- funeral
- necropolis [cross-reference to ‘sacred space’, above]
- tomb (as expression of religious beliefs and practices)
- tomb equipment – 2
- objects [see, ‘material culture’; many entries possible]
- meaning and function of burial deposits
- mortuary cult – 2
- royal mortuary cult
- private mortuary cult
- non-elite mortuary practices
- personal devotion – 4 entries
- [interaction between the human and the divine – essay article section ‘religion’]
- personal piety (modern theories relating to)
- votive practices
- domestic religious practices
- ancestor worship
- religious change – 2 entries
- [religious change – essay article section ‘religion’]
- Isis and Sarapis cult
- Survivals of pharaonic religious practices in Coptic Christianity
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