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It was the fixed, eternal order of the universe, both in the cosmos and in human society, and it was often personified as a goddess. The Egyptian conception of the universe centered on Ma'at, a word that encompasses several concepts in English, including "truth", "justice", and "order. Both resulted from the consolidation of political and economic power. In Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq, the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers), the first cities appeared on irrigated lands. Ancient Egyptian civilization emerged in the fertile Nile Valley, bounded on either side by harsh deserts. Originally, he seems to have been a god of thunderstorms. Marduk, in Mesopotamian religion, the chief god of the city of Babylon and the national god of Babylonia as such, he was eventually called simply Bel, or Lord. Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology left behind many writings and monuments, along with significant influences on ancient and modern cultures." "For a brief period, in the theology promulgated by the pharaoh Akhenaten, a single god, the Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon. They believed in an afterlife and went through great funeral preparations to ensure that their soul would survive till getting to the afterlife. They would use magic to cause the gods to react to their prayers. They thought many gods were in control of the world. Abram was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldees where they lived with the Canaanites and Philistines.īefore Moses came along, people in Egypt were polytheistic. That was when Middle Easterners from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers migrated westward which included the family of Terah and his son Abram (Abraham). The arrival of the Hyksos led to the end of the Thirteenth Dynasty and initiated the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. The Hyksos were a people of diverse origins, possibly from Western Asia, who settled in the eastern Nile Delta some time before 1650 BCE. The Middle Kingdom was followed by the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, another period of division that involved foreign invasions of the country by the Hyksos of West Asia. Our Moses was born much later in about 1391 and died in 1271 BCE.