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The Canon · No. 007
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Kemetic religion
c.3100 BCE – c.537 CE · Ancient Near East · Extinct · Nile valley
II. THE FIRST CIVILISATIONS — c.3000 – 1000 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.3100 BCE Unification under Narmer; kingship framed as a divine office from the start.
- c.2400 BCE Pyramid Texts carved in the pyramid of Unas.
- c.2000 BCE Coffin Texts extend afterlife access beyond the king.
- c.1353–1332 BCE Akhenaten's Aten revolution and its erasure — see entry 008.
- c.1279–1213 BCE Ramesses II; peak temple construction at Karnak, Abu Simbel.
- 332 BCE Alexander conquers Egypt; Ptolemies create Serapis to bind Greek and Egyptian worship.
- 391 CE Theodosius I bans pagan sacrifice.
- 394 CE The graffito of Esmet-Akhom at Philae — the last dated hieroglyphic inscription anywhere.
- c.535–537 CE Justinian sends Narses to close the temples of Philae, jail the priests and ship the images to Byzantium. This closes an institution; the faith had been fading for over a century.
### Sources
Verified 2026-09-13, against these.
- Kemetic Orthodoxy (founded 1988 by Tamara Siuda)
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