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Personal Piety & the Approachable God
Not just grand temples: ordinary Egyptians left humble, personal prayers to a merciful god.
Alongside the grand state cult, Egyptians — especially in the New Kingdom — left texts and monuments expressing intimate, personal religion: praising a god as merciful, confessing faults, accepting divine punishment as just, and trusting god to guide one's life rather than relying on one's own cleverness. Workmen's prayers from Deir el-Medina and the later instructions (like Amenemope) breathe this humble, trusting spirit.
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