i went to the LASM, the Louisiana Arts & Sciences Museum, where i saw the exhibit on mummies. all that aint important however. the important bit is that me and my mother where talking to the tour guide. we were discussing the beliefs of the anchient egyptians, and, of course, our conversation drifted to the Gods. she said that she thought that we (modern humans) had translated wrong, the anchient egyptian word we think of as 'God' doesnt really mean 'God'. it means the host of imagined characters the egyptians used to express ideas. for instance, she thought Re was not thought of as a God by the anchient egyptians, instead he was the embodiment of an idea or ideal, something like truth, honor, cleverness, or whatever, and the egyptians acnoledged that they had made it up. according to her, the 'Gods' of ancheint egypt were the embodiments of ideals like our smilies are embodiment of facial expresions and emotions, we know the smilies are not the members real face, only a representation of it, to give a direction for imagining others reactions. so what do yall think?
i think the egyptians worshipped them as Gods, mainly because of that egyptian princess thumast. she became angry with her father one day, and during the argument, he asid something to the effect of, 'it is the will of Re!'. she said something to the effect of 'screw Re' and to emphasize her point, tore a burnished metal plate off the wall (a symbol of Re), threw it to the floor, and spit on it. her father renounced her as his daughter, had her right hand (the one that tore off the disk and threw it) cut off and her lips (whcih had spit on the disk) burned off. he then gave her to the priests of Re, by whom she was ritually raped hundreds of times before being horribly sacrificed by her father himself. i felt like reminding the tour guide of this story, the saying, 'fathers dont do this to their daughters because they disrespected an idea!' but managed to control myself.