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Difference between Greek and Egyptian mythology?

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Egyptian religion focused on worshiping the Sun and the Nile, so their gods represented those aspects most often. Additionally, there were far fewer Egyptian deities and they were not really modeled after the Egyptians themselves, with many combining the features of humans and animals together.

The Greek pantheon was plentiful, and while there was plenty of sun worship among the Greeks, their chief deity was God of the Heavens, which was a way to make their chief god more important than the chief god of other peoples (who usually put the sun god at the head of their pantheon). This would allow the Greeks to easily subjugate, religiously, any other god forms (which they did in Egypt by equating Ra to Helios/Apollo, making Zeus his ruler/father). The Greeks also did not deify their rulers the way the Egyptians did.

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