3.15

1. Egyptian (Kemet) Temples and Religion
2. Ma'at (order) vs. Nun (void)
3. Finite Model of the Universe
4. Location/Mediator to affirm oder over chaos
5. Links tooriginal creation-replayed every day at dawn
6. Book of the dead:
1. Anubis - jackle headed God
1. guide for when you die
2. come up to judgement ->based on life that you had led
   
2. Thoth - Ibis headed God (bird with long beak)
1. scribe *always has a tool
2. writing down the judgement *writing was power and status
   
3. Negative Confessions
1. soul is weighed ->look at everything that has not been done
2. feather with a jar that hold's your Ma/Essence and if your essence is heavier than the feather -> you're s.o.l

3 Powerful Dieties

• Osiris = God of the Dead and the Underworld
  
• Isis = Wife and Sister, goddess of Agriculture
  
• Seth = Personification of Chaos and Confusion
  
• Horus = son and the living King

Mystery Cults = deal with death and rebirth

Necropolis = Land of the Dead

• Giza
• Valley of the Kings
• Valley of the Queens

Tomb of Nefertari

Karnak and Luxor (largest complex of temples, dedicated to Amun/Ra)

discussion of the Pyramids

• power behind the pyramid symbol due to the Egyptian pyramids
• mastaba = stepped pyramid
• symbol of resurrection from one from to another
• First Kingdom
• First Intermediate Period
• Middle Kingdom (lasts 400 years) 2040-1450
• New Kingdom 1550 - 1070

Egypt is more that the Pyramids or the Sphinx
*Upper Egypt is the origin of the Nile*(map)

• Upper appears lower and Lower appears to be Upper
• East is the World of the Living
• West of the Nile ->Valley of the Kings, Queens (tombs)
  
• Land of the Dead

Kemet = The Land of Black Soil/The Black Land ->the rich soil
Desert = The Land of Red Soil ->non-agriculturally profitable