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Ramesses II: a man and gods

4/22/2023, 5:47:24 AM


DECRYPTION - Ramesses II fully complied with Pharaoh's duty to care for the deities through worship. But under his reign a new conception of religion was asserted, based on a personal relationship between man and divinity.

Figaro Hors-Série

: "Ramses II, the event exhibition of the Grande halle de la Villette"


Figaro Hors-Série

This article is taken from the Figaro Special Edition “Ramses II, the event exhibition at the Grande halle de la Villette”.

Discover the grandeur and mysteries of ancient Egypt through the life of the greatest builder pharaoh, genius propagandist, protector of the arts, father of more than a hundred children...160 sumptuously illustrated pages.

The religion of Pharaonic Egypt is based on the following fundamental vision: a solar god, called Atum, Re, or Re-Horakhty made the world emerge from the primordial ocean, thus creating ordered and differentiated being torn from the original indifferentiation of non-being or chaos.

The march of the world is based on cycles: initial state, growth phase, paroxysm, descending phase, death, return to the initial state.

The functioning of these cycles is harmonized by an ordering principle called

Maat

, and ensured by the forces controlled by the divinities.

Which, to do this, need energy, otherwise the world would return...

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