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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 13, 2018 2:54:42 GMT
So they had this belief that pharoah's we gods. Do you agree with it? How did they develope this idea? www.ancient.eu/pharaoh/ |
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Post by Mocha on Feb 13, 2018 3:01:12 GMT
So they had this belief that pharoah's we gods. Do you agree with it? How did they develope this idea? www.ancient.eu/pharaoh/>Do you agree with it? Obviously no :^) >How did they develope this idea? Really simplified version of history true for many religions: Once upon a time, there was a group of people who worshipped some gods.
Until one day, when they were conquered by the Egyptians.
The Egyptian Pharaoh then claimed to be a living god.
"Is he really a god though? I mean, he must be, because not even our gods could protect us from being conquered by him, so clearly he's greater than our gods! If we worship him, maybe we'll get a good spot in the afterlife."
Then they treated Pharaoh as a god... and end scene. Obviously it was more complicated than that, but that's the gist of what happens, in general with these kinds of things, and this "story" isn't particularly limited to Egyptian mythology either. |
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 13, 2018 3:55:09 GMT
It's silly and odd in my opinion. That suddenly a human is god to them and many too since there were many pharoahs. I bet the pharoah's believed they were too  How do they even come up with the strange burial rituals. |
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Post by Διαμονδ on Feb 13, 2018 7:03:31 GMT
It's silly and odd in my opinion. That suddenly a human is god to them and many too since there were many pharoahs. I bet the pharoah's believed they were too  How do they even come up with the strange burial rituals. In ancient times, rulers of countries were often associated with the Gods! This applies to the Roman emperors too ... in any case it was a rather primitive teaching, it can not be called religious teachings in the modern sense of the word! |
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Feb 14, 2018 18:19:00 GMT
No, Pharaoh wasn't a god. Back in ancient times it was often the case in cultures that the king or dictator would be worshiped as or claim descendant from a god. This happened in Europe as well with Julius Ceasre claiming to be descended from Venus and the Anglo Saxon kings claiming to be descended from Woden. Even in modern times there were cultures like this. The Japanese during world war two worshipped the emperor as a god who was supposedly descended from the sun godess Amaterasu. In the 1950s stretching even into modern times the Tibetans worshipped and still worship the Dalai Lama a their "god king."
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Post by Mocha on Feb 14, 2018 20:13:51 GMT
No, Pharaoh wasn't a god. Back in ancient times it was often the case in cultures that the king or dictator would be worshiped as or claim descendant from a god. This happened in Europe as well with Julius Ceasre claiming to be descended from Venus and the Anglo Saxon kings claiming to be descended from Woden. Even in modern times there were cultures like this. The Japanese during world war two worshipped the emperor as a god who was supposedly descended from the sun godess Amaterasu. In the 1950s stretching even into modern times the Tibetans worshipped and still worship the Dalai Lama a their "god king." The Dalai Lama isn't really treated as a god though, more similar to the pope. |
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Mar 23, 2018 7:11:51 GMT
No, Pharaoh wasn't a god. Back in ancient times it was often the case in cultures that the king or dictator would be worshiped as or claim descendant from a god. This happened in Europe as well with Julius Ceasre claiming to be descended from Venus and the Anglo Saxon kings claiming to be descended from Woden. Even in modern times there were cultures like this. The Japanese during world war two worshipped the emperor as a god who was supposedly descended from the sun godess Amaterasu. In the 1950s stretching even into modern times the Tibetans worshipped and still worship the Dalai Lama a their "god king." The Dalai Lama isn't really treated as a god though, more similar to the pope. If the pope was also the king. |
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Post by EvilSpiriT on Oct 30, 2018 17:42:34 GMT
okay I asked one of my friend from Egypt. He claimed that Cleopetra too was a Queen befroe a pharoah and they used to consider them as gods. Thus they believed pharoahs had some special powers and they used to cremate them with all essentials there in coffin.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 30, 2018 18:58:13 GMT
okay I asked one of my friend from Egypt. He claimed that Cleopetra too was a Queen befroe a pharoah and they used to consider them as gods. Thus they believed pharoahs had some special powers and they used to cremate them with all essentials there in coffin. Does your friend believe all that stuff? |
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Post by PISTON1246 on Oct 30, 2018 20:13:58 GMT
They fit a definition as a god that some people have worshiped, but none of them are the God I worship because they didn't create the world or answer my prayers (never prayed to them before).
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Post by Polaris on Oct 30, 2018 21:24:04 GMT
No, it was silly of him to claim he was god
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Post by EvilSpiriT on Nov 1, 2018 4:48:14 GMT
okay I asked one of my friend from Egypt. He claimed that Cleopetra too was a Queen befroe a pharoah and they used to consider them as gods. Thus they believed pharoahs had some special powers and they used to cremate them with all essentials there in coffin. Does your friend believe all that stuff? Not at all. He doesn't believe in such things. It's a superstition there. Yesterday I had a video chat with him in which he showed me their currency and to my surprise it was nothing else but an Ancient Egyptian figure. |
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