Animals of Egypt
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Animals and the Nile River
The Nile supports animal life by giving them what they need to survivor. That's good. It gives them water and vegetation. It also gives carnivores meat. How Gross! The Nile supports all kinds of animals. It also gives a habitat for water animals. It brings life into Ancient Egypt. With out it Ancient Egypt would have no animals. That means they would have to do everything. That would be hard! With no animals no gods or goddess would be worshiped.
Camels drinking in the Nile River |
Friday, November 19, 2010
The Cat!
Bastet |
Secred Animals
Ancient Egyptian cat |
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Mummifyed Animals, to!!
The Egyptians only mummified the sacred animals because it would please the god or goddess. When a sacred animal died its skin was dried out and then it was wrapped in cloth and put into a coffin. The coffin animals were put in were much different because it was made in that animals form. The animals they mummified were cattle, cats, dogs, monkeys, ram, baboon, crocodiles, ibis, falcons (hey that reminds me are school mascot is a falcon), and hawks. They would put these animals in a special graveyard. This is where their gods and goddess would watch over them to see if they were going to have a good after life
mummified Gazzale |
The daily life using Animals.
Imagine walking across lot and lots of sand with a ton of stuff on your back. Ouch that would really hurt! That's why the Egyptians had camels, donkeys and horses. It seems mean to put these poor animals to work but, it was for a good cause. Egyptians used some animals for milk, sometimes they would drink the milk rite out of the pale GROSS!! They would kill ducks and other animals for food. Poor animals. The Egyptians used some animals to please the gods or goddess. Some of the animals they worshiped were cat,ram, and the baboon. The Egyptians would have a sacred house for the rams and the ram would always have someone with them. If a ram wanted to take a long walk someone would be with it. Weird huh?
bulls working on a farm |
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