Religion in Pompeii and Herculaneum explores such factors such as temples, household of gods, tombs and foreign cults all of which have a strong impact on the way we perceive the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. A variety of temples will be discussed including the temple of Isis and Temple of Jupiter. Furthermore, the household of gods in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum depicted a private religion as the people of the city had a strong belief in religion, varies household gods that were highly influential include Lares, Genius the god of fertility and Penates whom protected food supply to family. In addition, tombs played a major role in showing the social status of families. The significance of roman religion played a major role on the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The Egyptians calendar revolved around the annual flooding of the Nile river which brought rich silt to the valley, and was the beginning of the agricultural season for the Egyptians. In the Classical Maya period the Maya created a sophisticated calendar system of overlapping cycles that included multiple cycles, a two hundred and sixty day calendar, a three hundred and sixty five day calendar and a few more that I have not listed. The cycles restarted every fifty two years, which in my opinions could of lead to the inevitable collapse of the Maya. Both Egyptian and Mayan cultures were Polytheistic in their religions with rulers that represented Gods on Earth. The ancient Egyptians revolved heavily around Earth and Sun gods, which they believed controlled the vital flooding of the Nile.
The Aztec and Mayan Civilizations in the Americas Ashley M. Carpenter Western Civilization II National University June 2, 2012 Abstract From 250 A.D. to the late 1500’s A.D. the Mayans and the Aztecs controlled Central and South America. Each was unique, but still shared a few of the same traits. Both had their own calendar system, counting system, and Polytheistic religious beliefs along with similar temples built to worship their deities. While the Aztecs were the most prominent users of human sacrifice, the Mayans also participated in such rituals. A few differences between these civilizations were the social structure, natural resources, and differing cultural strengths.
Some people still believe that these predictions will come true, like the one about the world ending in 2012. There is evidence that they used both bark paper and a kind of parchment for other purposes. The Maya’s did some simple mathematic such as multiplying, adding, and subtracting, but they were written in a variety of styles depending on who was doing the calculations. 9) There are many ways which people believe how the ancient Mayan society collapsed. It could have been due to sickness, foreign invasion, soil exhaustion, and famine.
But they did take the human sacrificing to an exaggerated level.Those who fought and hunted with great skill and the most handsomes were considered the best to be sacrificed. This for them was considered a great honor. Thousands of people including children were sacrificed each year due to the aztecs rituals. But there was non-fatal rituals. Such as burning of blood soaked paper, animal rituals such as deer, butterflies and snakes were given to sacrifice.Foods were also given to the gods even preouse objects were willing given to the gods, such as rare metals, Jades, and shells to be ritually buried.
To find two similar stories through out history is not very hard to do, unfortunately, the term “history repeats itself” is far too true. Statements like this can be seen in societies ranging from 3000 BC all the way to modern civilizations. We see entire civilizations rise up to be sophisticated societies that develop their own cultures, agriculture and economy, and for the most part these societies go on to create heir civilizations, however some just simply disappear. Historians refer to these kinds of cultures as “lost civilizations.” Two excellent examples of these “lost civilizations” is the Harappan civilization, dating back to 3000 BC and the much more recent Mayan society, originating in 300 BC. To say these cultures are extremely similar is a fallacy in itself, however to say they are extremely comparable is possible.
Mystery of Mayan Civilization Fawn Barrette Professor Ewing Humanities 111 25 April 2012 Abstract What happened to the Maya civilization? It seems that around 800AD the Maya population had reached an all time high, but in 900AD the population crashed. (Scott, 2004) The people seemed to have simply disappeared and many theories evolved to try to explain this. Some of the theories are: earthquakes, climatic changes, epidemic diseases, social decay and deforestation and drought, but of course the Mayan people did not totally disappear and there are some Mayan descendants still living around the area and most of these theories have been disputed. The first theory is that widespread disease could have caused some rapid depopulation through the spread of infection itself and indirectly as an inhibition to recover over the long run.
Ancient Egyptian Religion The Force Behind Everything As the ancient Egyptian religion was an important part of everyday life for all Egyptians (rich and poor), they built a great many temples and had shrines in their homes. The term used to describe ancient Egyptian theology is Polytheism. This just means that they believed in many Gods. Gods were not only formless entities with certain roles - but the Gods were also the forces of nature, the elements, and the characteristics of certain powers. Some Egyptian Gods merged with foreign Gods too.
Egyptian and Shang civilizations had many similarities. Most notable was their politics. Both had powerful kings, though the Egyptian kings were known as Pharaohs. The leaders of both civilizations were political as well as religious leaders. Pharaohs were viewed as gods of Earth and had a great deal of religious influence over the Egyptian people.
These temples were not only dedicated to Amon Ra and his family but they also had giant statues showing tribute to Ramses as well. The Karnak and Luxor temples both had areas of Heliopolis which are areas where intelligent people go to talk to other intelligent people. Most of the intelligent people were scribes. Most, if not all, of the writing on the walls and halls of the Karnak and Luxor Temples were engraved by scribes. They were paid more and were highly educated compared to everyone else in Egypt except the Pharaohs and other Scribes.