Ancient Egyptian religion is very complex. We know much more now about the beliefs and practices of the people of Ancient Egypt than we did even twenty years ago. Rather than branding these ancient people as "superstitious primitives" who worshiped an endless assortment of strange beast headed beings, we find that their beliefs were in fact quite profound and had a unique understanding of the Natural Order.

Its very easy to to be tempted to think that the Ancient Egyptians were polytheists. What is true is that it is now very widely accepted throughout Egyptology that the Ancient Egyptians were in fact monolatrists. Monolatry is the belief that the many different representations seen in a religion, such as that of the Ancient Egyptians, are actually intermediaries or attributes of this Supreme Being or Unknowable Central One. At the pinnacle of the Egyptian religious belief system is a God or simply called Netjer. This Netjer is unique, Self-Created, and inaccessible in the depths of Its Own Being. The individual Names of Netjer gave form and "personality" to the Vastness of the All, which is unfathomable to the minds of humanity.

It is believed that there were possibly as many as 4,000 individual Names of Netjer. The most common Names of Netjer can be found on this page.

One of the more common Names of Netjer is Bast- MeryBast has the story of the REAL Bast. She has quite simply the best page online on the subject.

Tjeti Sobkneferu has put together the finest site on the web about Amun. Check out the Temple Amun. Amun rose from obscurity in early times to be the largest and most powerful cult in the Egyptian religion. Tjeti has also put together an online Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Religion.

Ancient Egyptian Religion Links