Men and gods: divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt

Susana Mota

Men and gods: divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt

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Abstract

In ancient Egypt the relationship between believers and their deities, a bilateral relationship in which the believer made offerings and paid the due respect to the gods expecting from them help and protection, is mainly conceived within the framework of the religious phenomenon known as personal piety, occurring from the New Kingdom onwards. Household religion, the set of religious practices that took place at home, usually understood as an expression of Egyptian personal piety, is a possible path to a deeper understanding of this relationship. Resorting to a set of material sources found in various settlements in ancient Egypt that attest that gods were present in houses, it is possible to essay a characterisation of the divinities’ cult in a domestic context. Thus, the aim of this text is to use the textual sources to understand the factors that ground the relationship between men and gods and the material vestiges found at homes to identify which gods were present in Egyptian houses, how they were worshiped and also since when.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ancient Egypt 2017
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives of Research
Editors	Mari Helena Trindade Lopes, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska, Jadwiga Iwaszczuk, Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel Pereira
Place of Publication	Warsaw
Publisher	Harrassowitz Verlag
Pages	153-166
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-3-447-11458-5, 978-83-952189-5-8
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	8th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF EGYPTOLOGISTS (CECE 8): “Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research”, CHAM – FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon/ Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation/ Museum of Archaeology of Lisbon, June 26 - July 1, 2017. - FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon/ Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation/ Museum of Archaeology of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 26 Jun 2017 → 1 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name	Travaux de L’institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de L’académie Polonaise des Sciences
Publisher	Harrassowitz Verlag
Volume	6

Conference

Conference	8th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF EGYPTOLOGISTS (CECE 8): “Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research”, CHAM – FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon/ Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation/ Museum of Archaeology of Lisbon, June 26 - July 1, 2017.
Abbreviated title	CECE 8
Country	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	26/06/17 → 1/07/17

Keywords

Ancient Egypt
Household religion
Divinities’ cult
Material sources
Personal piety

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Mota, S. (2020). Men and gods: divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt. In M. H. T. Lopes, J. Popielska-Grzybowska, J. Iwaszczuk, & R. G. G. Pereira (Eds.), Ancient Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research (pp. 153-166). (Travaux de L’institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de L’académie Polonaise des Sciences; Vol. 6). Harrassowitz Verlag.

Mota, Susana. / Men and gods : divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research. editor / Mari Helena Trindade Lopes ; Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska ; Jadwiga Iwaszczuk ; Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel Pereira. Warsaw : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. pp. 153-166 (Travaux de L’institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de L’académie Polonaise des Sciences).

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Mota, S 2020, Men and gods: divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt. in MHT Lopes, J Popielska-Grzybowska, J Iwaszczuk & RGG Pereira (eds), Ancient Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research. Travaux de L’institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de L’académie Polonaise des Sciences, vol. 6, Harrassowitz Verlag, Warsaw, pp. 153-166, 8th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF EGYPTOLOGISTS (CECE 8): “Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research”, CHAM – FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon/ Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation/ Museum of Archaeology of Lisbon, June 26 - July 1, 2017., Lisbon, Portugal, 26/06/17.

Men and gods : divinities’ cult within household religion in ancient Egypt. / Mota, Susana.

Ancient Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research. ed. / Mari Helena Trindade Lopes; Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska; Jadwiga Iwaszczuk; Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel Pereira. Warsaw : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. p. 153-166 (Travaux de L’institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de L’académie Polonaise des Sciences; Vol. 6).

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