What were the beliefs of the Egyptians?

Egyptians has a very complex religion. The Egyptians believed in deities, myths, or gods that they believed had the control over nature and the things on earth. They had four main religions, those being Memphis, Theban, Heliopolis, and Hermopolis Theology. The Ancient Egyptian religions really shaped their lifestyles because they believed that if they put a lot of effort in practicing the religion, the gods will gain respect from them, and would favor them for practicing the religion. Most of the practices comes from the pharaoh, which the Egyptians believed that pharaohs were a gift from god. Their religious practices was mostly practiced with rituals or traditions. Religious beliefs in Egypt has changed overtime due to the importance of a certain god, meaning that people needed more from one god than another.

The Egyptians were polytheists, they interacted with different deities. Each region had a principal god to whom he worshiped and then secondarily to the other gods. They represented their divinities with human figures and animals. The Egyptians have local gods, cosmic gods, many demigods that multiply and sacred animals that are not divine but are respected and mummified when they die.