The 700 Gods And Goddesses In Greek Mythology

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there were 700 gods and goddesses and most of them were combined to start new deities. Many of those gods are in myths we know today like Ra (he was merged with the god Horus, the god of the Sun). Osiris (he is the god of the underworld and death), and Osiris’s sister Isis (she is the goddess of motherhood and healing).
The only instance of a drastic change was when the king Akhenaten started his monotheistic religion.
When King Tutankhamun was mummified, he was placed with all his jewelry and gold because they believed that in the afterlife, we would want all our special treasures. Since King Tut had so many jewels and treasures, they all couldn’t fit into his tomb so they make a wall. Behind the wall, lots of enormous treasures, gold, jewelry,

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