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Feline reverence is not peculiar to Ancient Egyptian civilisation. Muslim theology maintains that the prophet Muhammad once found a cat sleeping on his robe; instead of waking it, he cut a hole through his robe so as not to disturb the animal. This reverence can be found in ancient Indian texts, where records of cats involved with human society can be found in two ancient Indian great epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, circa 500 BCE. As the Hindu and Parsee religions respected all forms of life and were especially sympathetic towards cats, ...

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Cats (Felis catus) are among the most common pets in the world. In the United States, for example, according to a survey released by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, feline pets number around 77 million. Even though cats have now overtaken dogs in popularity in the US, and are enormously popular elsewhere, the history of feline domestication is not as well known as that of their canine counterparts. In 1888, an Egyptian farmer accidentally uncovered a large tomb containing thousands upon thousands of ... Including:

• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in other religions
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in everyday life in Ancient Egypt
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Cats in Egyptian mythology
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Bubastis and the Cult of the Cat
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - Funerary traditions
• Cats in Ancient Egypt - The decline of cat-worship

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There is no one "head God" in the Egyptian pantheon, and this fact has mystified, frustrated, confused, puzzled, amused and outraged monotheists around the world for 2,500 years. Egyptian philosophy has been labeled with the curious oxymoron of "spiritual materialism," and so dismissed as primitive.
 
An excerpt from Walk Like An Egyptian: A Modern Guide To The Religion And Philosophy Of Ancient Egypt
 

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Life in Egypt The Culture of Egypt has five thousand years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations. For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that had a profound influence on later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came under the influence of Hellenism, for a time Christianity, and later, Arab and Islamic culture. Today, many aspects of Egypt's ancient culture exist in interaction with newer elements, includin ... Including:

• Culture of Egypt - Language
• Culture of Egypt - Literature
• Culture of Egypt - Religion
• Culture of Egypt - Visual art
• Culture of Egypt - Egyptian art in antiquity
• Culture of Egypt - Egyptian art in modern times
• Culture of Egypt - Science
• Culture of Egypt - Ptolemy
• Culture of Egypt - Eratosthenes
• Culture of Egypt - Library of Alexandria
• Culture of Egypt - Ahmed Hasan Zewail
• Culture of Egypt - Egyptology
• Culture of Egypt - Music and dance
• Culture of Egypt - Cuisine

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A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. As the concept of monotheism and polytheism can be relativistic, so too can related concepts be culturally misunderstood. The concept of gender as applied to a god and goddess, may connote deeper tendencies of patriarchy and matriarchy, which ... Including:

• Goddess - Ancient Near East
• Goddess - Egypt
• Goddess - Mesopotamia
• Goddess - Arabia
• Goddess - Indo-European religion
• Goddess - Hinduism
• Goddess - Graeco-Roman religion
• Goddess - Celtic religion
• Goddess - Germanic religion
• Goddess - Abrahamic religions
• Goddess - Judaism
• Goddess - Christianity
• Goddess - Islam
• Goddess - New religious movements
• Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism
• Goddess - Religious feminism
• Goddess - Secular use

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Incest is sexual activity or marriage between very close family members. It is a taboo, as well as a criminal offense, in most societies. The same restrictions usually apply to sexual unions as they do to marriage. The precise meaning of incest varies widely, because different cultures have differing notions of "sexual activity" and "close family member." Some jurisdictions consider only those related by birth, others also those related by adoption or marriage; some prohibit sexual relations between people who grew up in the same household, while others prohibit sexual relations betw ... Including:

• Incest - Incest and inbreeding
• Incest - Incest versus exogamy
• Incest - Industrial societies
• Incest - Consensual adult incest
• Incest - History
• Incest - Ancient Egypt
• Incest - Royal dynasties
• Incest - In religious traditions
• Incest - In mythology
• Incest - In religion
• Incest - Fiction
• Incest - Genetics

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Egyptology is the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist. Egyptology investigates the range of Ancient Egyptian culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics, and ethics) from the 5th millennium BC u ...

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Yamm was the god of oceans, seas, rivers and lakes in several old semitic religions, for instance in Phoenicia, Ancient Egypt and for the Canaanites. According to legend, Yamm was awarded the divine rule over the world by El. Baal, initially destined to become Yamm's servant, refused and challenged Yamm for battle. Baal came out victorious and won the divine kingship. Yamm was mentioned in the old Egyptian Astarte papyrus and might be identical with the old semitic god Lothan. ...

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Qift (قفط) is a small town in the Qina governorate of Egypt about 43 km north of Luxor, on the east bank of the Nile. In ancient times Qift was called Coptos or Gebtu, and was an important center for administration, religion, and commerce, being the chief town of the Nomos of Harawî (Two Hawks). It supported mining in the nearby desert during the First and Second dynasties Coptos, once politically important, under the eleventh dynasty was overshadowed by Thebes. Its principal god ...

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