Animal Worship
Many animals were considered sacred to particular deities:
| Deity | Animal |
|---|---|
| Ptah | Bull |
| Thoth | Ibis or Baboon |
| Amun | Ram |
| Horus or Ra | Falcon or Hawk |
| Anubis | Jackal or Dog |
| Sobek | Crocodile |
| Hathor | Cow |
| Sekhmet | Lioness |
| Nekhbet | Vulture |
| Wadjet or Ejo | Egyptian cobra |
| Khepri | Scarab Beetle |
| Geb | Egyptian Goose or Snake |
| Bast or Bastet | Cat |
Read more about this topic: Ancient Egyptian Deities
Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or worship:
“Come into animal presence.
No man is so guileless as
the serpent. The lonely white
rabbit on the roof is a star
twitching its ears at the rain.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)