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The earliest tribal gods may have been fetishes connected with nomadic hunting or warriorpeople Their gods became local god and were associated with agriculture One of the commonestof the tribal fetishes was the falcon which later became identified with the sky maybe because thefalcon was able to fly so high Horus was the most powerful of the falcon-deities his peopleprobably came from Libya and conquered large parts of Upper and Lower Egypt At an earlyperiod many falcon-gods seem to have been merged with Horus Horus people were livingunconnected with each other in different parts of the Nile valleyThe first important gods begin 3100 BC under Menes or Narmer the founder of the FirstDynasty and the first King Menes was a follower of Horus the falcon-god and the king of one ofthe branches of the followers of Horus which had settled in Upper Egypt and had become supremeThe Egyptians said that the first creation were the oceans After that Ra the sun came outfrom an egg flower it appeared at the surface of the water Ra worshipped the status of religionthe god was gradually fused with Amon during the Theban dynasties becoming the supreme godAmon-Ra The earliest predysnastic tribes venerated many deities who were at first emboied inanimals such as the sacred cat of Bubastisbut who were later humanized The most widelyaccepted creation myth was that of the great sun god Ra who appeared out of Chaos to create arace including Osiris and Isis and their son Horus The most important of the many forms of theEgyptian worship were the cults of Osiris king and judge of the dead protector of all the sun godRa symbolized by the pyramid The group of Ra was worshipped at Heliopolis the center of sunAmon the god of Thebes was usually shown as human He was viewed along with hisconsort amenet as a primordial creation-deity Up to the time XIIth Dynasty Amon was a god of nomore than local
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