Egyptian Religion Religion was arguably the most important aspect of any Egyptian’s life. Many shortcomings or glorious victories were blamed or attributed to the dispositions of the gods. With that said, the Egyptian’s held the afterlife as one of the most important events in one’s life. They believed that the deceased needed his earthly body for his second body or Ka (soul) to achieve the immeasurable task ahead of him, to gain …showed first 75 words of 312 total…

…showed last 75 words of 312 total…was betrayed by his brother Seth and thrown into what many would call the first sarcophagus. Upon his death a great adventure springs where his wife Isis travels the lands of the Mediterranean searching for the body of her husband. When all the pieces are found they are bound with cloth and thus comprise the first mummy. In conclusion, the religious obsessions of the Egyptians rule them during life…and through out the after life.