chadwick boseman played the god of wisdom in gods of egypt.
chadwick boseman played the god of wisdom in gods of egypt.
who plays the god of wisdom in gods of egypt?
chadwick boseman
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bullet::::- nikolaj coster-waldau as horus, the egyptian god of air and hathor's lover.









































bullet::::- gerard butler as set, the egyptian god of the desert









































bullet::::- brenton thwaites as bek, a young thief who allies with horus.









































bullet::::- lindsay farris voices an older bek that narrates the film.









































bullet::::- chadwick boseman as thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom.









































bullet::::- élodie yung as hathor, the egyptian goddess of love and horus's lover.









































bullet::::- courtney eaton as zaya, bek's lover.









































bullet::::- geoffrey rush as ra, the egyptian god of the sun









































bullet::::- rufus sewell as urshu, set's architect.
gods of egypt (film)
the egyptians used to have a whole list of gods who were worshipped during this period of time. these gods were always represented in the form of humans or animals or as animal-headed humans. some of these gods were specific to certain places or cities for example while others were more general and were worshipped on a larger scale. from early periods of the egyptian kingdom solar gods such as re had played a very important role in egyptian state religion. this is mainly because the idea of the sun as a distant yet universal power was close enough to the prevailing ideas of the supreme power of the king both inside egypt and beyond its borders. in the new kingdom, the prominence and power of solar gods increased again. one of the most popular ones was the aten, the visible sun-disk which can be seen traversing the sky each day. akhenaten raised the aten to the position of 'sole god', and it was represented as a disk with rays of light terminating in hands which reach out to the royal family, it was usually perceived as if it was offering the hieroglyphic sign for life. akhenaten and his family are usually displayed while worshipping the aten or even indulging in everyday activities beneath the disk that represents aten. art and test during this period always stressed on the idea of the tie between the king and the god. the king represents the link between the god and ordinary people. as a result, ordinary people had to focus on worshipping akhenaten and the royal family instead of the aten. and with worshipping the king they are getting closer to the god aten. it is highly probable that akhenaten's religion is not monotheistic. even though the aten is actually the only god worshipped and provided with temples during this period, other gods still existed and are sometimes mentioned in inscriptions. however, these solar gods are personifications of abstract concepts. this might be well understood as sometimes even the names of the aten, which are written in cartouches like king's names, consist of a statement describing the aten in terms of other gods. the idea of traditional gods was not highly tolerated by the majority of ordinary people however, teams of workmen were sent around the temples of egypt where they called out the names and images of these gods wherever they occurred. a number of hymns to the aten were composed during akhenaten's reign in order to praise the aten. these hymns provide an overview of what james allen has described as the 'natural philosophy' of akhenaten's religion. the wonders of the natural world are described to praise the universal power of the sun. all creatures celebrate when the sun rises and the nature becomes beautiful. while nasty things happen = at night when the sun is not present. akhenaten decided that the worship of the aten required a new location which is uncontaminated by the cults of traditional gods. that's why; he chose a site in middle egypt for a new capital city which he called akhetaten, 'horizon of the aten'. it is a faraway site in the desert surrounded on three sides by cliffs and to the west by the nile and is known today as el-amarna. in the cliffs surrounding the city the king left a series of monumental inscriptions in which he explained his reasons for the move to this new site and his architectural intentions for the city in the form of lists of buildings that he either built or intended to build.
amarna era