Authors
- Sherkova Tatjana A. Candidate of Historical Sciences Russian Federation Moscow
Annotation
The problem of the formation of the pantheon in the Early Kingdom has been discussed in Egyptological literature. The main position is that some of the primary cult centers were considered as local, dedicated to local deities from the very beginning of Egyptian history, while others had a universal, national significance. The article explores the problem in the cultural and historical context of the events of the gathering of Egyptian lands from the most powerful nome, which was Nehen in Southern Egypt. This process took several centuries, and it was not until the Second Dynasty that the kings of the growing state finally annexed Lower Egypt. Almost all of the gods’ cults known in the classical period existed in the nomes before the Early Kingdom. By maintaining their regional shrines, the gods were given state status. In the established monarchy, all of the gods’ cults were associated with the ruling deified tsar, whose power was sacralized.
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Sherkova, T. A. (2026). THE FORMATION OF THE PANTHEON IN PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 1 (61), 96. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-9105-2026-161-96-117
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