Origins of the Egyptian Gods

The Ancients

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The legends of Ra and Hathor, of Osiris and Isis, of Anubis and Set have been passed from mouth to ear in Egypt for millennia. They were painted on temple walls, etched on delicate papyrus and discovered at the heart of the pyramids. But who were the Gods of Egypt? How did their myths originate? And from where did the ancient Egyptians believe their Gods came from?

On the Ancients this September and October - across five special episodes - join Tristan Hughes to delve into the meaning of these stories and unpack Egypt's mysterious deities. In today's episode he is joined by Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley to kick off the series and explore the origins of the Gods and their enthralling creation story.

Presented by Tristan Hughes. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Scriptwriter is Andrew Hulse. Voice Actor is Menna Elbezawy.

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0:00.0	This is the story of how India transformed the world.
0:04.3	Join me, William Derimple, on my mission to reinstate India to its rightful place
0:09.5	as the great superpower of the ancient world.
0:12.0	In my new book, The Golden Road,
0:14.0	discover the Indian ideas that blazed a trail
0:18.0	across the globe from the Buddhism of China
0:20.0	to the creation of the numerals we still use today.
0:24.0	The Golden Road, available now in all good bookshopscients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and welcome to our newest
0:47.6	miniseries all about the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Over five episodes this September and October,
0:55.0	we're going to be exploring these mysterious deities.
0:59.0	Now at first you might think,
1:00.0	oh, this is going to be like their previous Greek gods and goddesses
1:03.7	miniseries, but no. The Egyptian deities, figures like Artem, Rha, Anubis, Isis,
1:10.1	Osiris, Hathor, and many others often represented with animal heads,
1:15.0	were they are much, much more enigmatic,
1:18.0	and just as, if not more extraordinary.
1:22.0	In today's episode, the first of the series, we're starting it off with the story of how
1:27.0	the Egyptians believed their gods came into existence, the so-called Anayat.
1:33.2	We kick off this episode with the retelling of this story, following which we have an interview
1:37.5	with the fantastic Egyptologist Dr Joyce Tildesley from the University of Manchester, who will be one of our main experts for this series.
1:46.0	This is a fascinating topic that Joyce expertly untangles for us, so sit back, relax and enjoy the story of the origins of the Egyptian gods. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The Nile flows north and the wind blows south, these things will always be.
2:18.1	Waves, they speak of noon, the primordial ocean that existed before all other things, endless, boundless, lifeless.
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