ancient Egyptian gods

.	Ancient Egyptian Gods	Norse Gods
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Depiction of gods	Early Dynasty - Animals Old Kingdom - Human with animal faces	Human - male and female
Number of gods	More than 2000 gods - Some, such as Ra were worshipped throughout the whole country. while most had only a local cult center	Only 50 gods - worshipped by all Norse people (no dedicated cult cities or local gods)
Main gods	1- Ra - the sun god and the lord of the universe 2- Amun - flourished in the New Kingdom. 3- Ptah - Memphis main diety 4- Osiris - god of the underworld who made a peaceful afterlife possible	Odin, Thor and Freya
Dwelling	Temples - were the dwelling places of gods, every god had his dedicated temple which were accessible by Priests and Pharaohs	Asgard - the home and citadel of the gods. It was located in the heavens and was accessible only over the rainbow bridge, Bifrost The Germanic tribes never had temples
Sacrifice	Daily offerings to gods in temples, consisting of food and drink - No Human sacrifice	frequent Human sacrifices, specially to god Odin, these included defeated kings and soldiers in battles
Forces of universe	Gods commanded the universe with no rivals (Seth is a wicked god who commanded the desert). Supreme, powerful and immortal gods	Deamons and giants rivaled the gods - The Norse myths held that Asgard would be destroyed in a final battle in which the demons would overcome the gods, this vision of the end times is uniquely pessimistic showing the gods capable of being defeated

Other Gods
Aten
Bes
Hathor
Khnum

Maat
Mentu
Serapis
Sobek