Questions

// Questions on Ancient Egypt Religion // Congratulations to those groups who have managed to research their topic, summarise it effectively and create an attractive wikipage. Unfortunately, this has not been the case for all groups. Nonetheless, by reading the stronger pages you should gain some understanding about important aspects in Ancient Egyptian Religion, and how the characteristics of religion (belief, ritual etc) are inter-related.

Your task today is to use the information in the Wiki to answer the following questions in a Word document. Once you have finished the questions, email your answers to jkachel@msben.nsw.edu.au. > > Connecting the ideas ... > CHOOSE TWO OR MORE of the Wikipages and explain how the topics on these pages are linked to each other. The more connections you can make, the better. (Note - choose two topics that are different characteristics of religion eg don't choose two sacred spaces or two sacred stories.) > > Finally,
 * 1) Who was the pharaoh?
 * 2) What were the tasks of the pharaoh?
 * 3) In brief, what were the four steps of mummification?
 * 4) What was the Book of the Dead?
 * 5) What protected the dead on the Journey to the Underworld?
 * 6) Why was the dead person's heart weighed?
 * 7) What was the ba, and what happened to it?
 * 8) What happened to the ka?
 * 9) Who was the first god in both Upper and Lower Kingdom creation myths?
 * 10) In Upper Kingdom mythology, how were humans created?
 * 11) In Lower Kingdom mythology, how did Ra appear?
 * 1) There are obviously connections between the different topics. Based on your reading,
 * 1) Which page is your favourite? (and don't nominate your own). I'll count up your responses and we'll see which page everyone enjoyed the most.