Each religions had many gods. Egyptians had as many as 114 gods and goddess. One for great things and many for the mundane every day. Possibly the top god was Ra, the sun god, controlling the rising and the setting of the sun. Isis, was the more popular of the goddess, as she watched over the women and children. The Egyptian gods were seemly nicer and more gracious. Mesopotamian gods were seen as harsh and volatile. Ereshkigal was the goddess of the Underworld. Ishtar was the goddess of love and war. The Bull of Heaven was controlled by the sky god Anu; he is now a constellation that we now know as Taurus. Each of the gods represented a part of the everyday for Mesopotamians and Egyptians. Today there are few religions that are as complex as the ones of the Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, but there are some customs that are but a minor reflection. Many believe in an afterlife, and judgment, many bury their dead with trinkets and tokens of the material world, and many pray to the gods for safe passage that the soul will be at peace and know
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happiness. The beliefs and customs of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia was serious matter and taken with great care. Many were very similar, multiple gods, monuments for the dead, and an Underworld that awaited them. But the stark differences between the customs for each burial, the different types of gods, and how to precede in the Underworld are unfathomable. For being as close as they were the great cities were very