How Egyptian Gods Changed

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Many people beleive that egyptain gods looked like humans and animals. Each god had a differenr body or head of an animal to represent there job and or there power. most of the time gods and godesses where paired up to sombody the oposite like sun god or a moon god. although some times they get paired with sombody the same. some of there gods where more powerful than others but they did change through out

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