They wanted to keep religion out of government. But they can’t figure out what animal he’s supposed to be. When Saidman Yee set out to make a weight-loss DVD, she incorporated all of these ideas: “The first section focuses on a lot of standing poses and arm movements to get the heart rate up, and the second section is all about the midsection,” she says. The Pisces sign gets a lot of criticism for not being realistic or in ‘reality,’ but we need the dreamers; without dreamers, the world doesn’t get better. She also had an important funerary aspect, being known as “the lady of the west.” (Tombs were generally built on the west bank of the Nile.) In some traditions, she would welcome the setting sun every night; living people hoped to be welcomed into the afterlife in the same way. Sin, for Plotinus, came about from humans being separated from the One, just as in Christian theology sin arises from humankind’s separation from God. It is believed that depictions of Isis with the infant Horus influenced Christian imagery of Mary with the infant Jesus. Isis was one of the last of the ancient Egyptian gods to still be worshipped.

After the rulers of Thebes rebelled against a dynasty of foreign rulers known as the Hyksos and reestablished native Egyptian rule throughout Egypt, Amon received credit for their victory. As the devoted wife who resurrected Osiris after his murder and raised their son, Horus, Isis embodied the traditional Egyptian virtues of a wife and mother. As the wife of the god of the underworld, Isis was also one of the main deities concerned with rites for the dead. Anubis was concerned with funerary practices and the care of the dead. According to the Osiris myth, Anubis embalmed and wrapped the body of the murdered king, becoming the patron god for embalmers. Osiris rose to prominence as the lord of the underworld, Anubis was considered the principal god of the dead. Along with her sister Nephthys, Isis acted as a divine mourner, and her maternal care was often depicted as extending to the dead in the underworld. In underworld scenes showing the judgment undergone by the deceased after their deaths, Thoth is depicted as weighing the hearts of the deceased and reporting the verdict to Osiris, the god of the dead.

As the god of wisdom, Thoth was said to possess knowledge of magic and secrets unavailable to the other gods. One tradition holds that Horus lost his left eye fighting with Seth, but his eye was magically healed by the god Thoth. Because the right and left eyes of Horus were associated, respectively, with the sun and the moon, the loss and restoration of Horus’s left eye gave a mythical explanation for the phases of the moon. In the Ptolemaic period she came to be associated with the Greek goddess Artemis, the divine hunter and goddess of the moon. One of several deities associated with the sun, the god Re was usually represented with a human body and the head of a hawk. Depicted as a falcon or as a man with a falcon’s head, Horus was a sky god associated with war and hunting. It was believed that he sailed across the sky in a boat each day and then made a passage through the underworld each night, during which he would have to defeat the snake god Apopis in order to rise again. In his response, the student called Jefferson “an enemy of Christianity.” Ramaswamy instantly butted in and replied, “So, this is where we disagree.” The two butted for a while again, leading Ramaswamy to his next statement, “If you believe that Thomas Jefferson as a Deist would’ve been unqualified to be US president, then I guess you and I see the future of the United States of America differently.

Artemisia Gentileschi in 1620. The painting tells the Biblical story of Jael driving a tent peg into the head of Sisera, an enemy warlord who was seeking refuge from the Israelites. He was usually represented as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. Thoth, the god of writing and wisdom, could be depicted in the form of a baboon or a sacred ibis or as a man with the head of an ibis. Amon was a god of the air, and the name probably means the “Hidden One.” He was usually represented as a man wearing a crown with two vertical plumes. Amon was worshipped locally in the southern city of Thebes. Which Ontario city is the capital of Canada? She took the less ferocious form of a domestic cat in the first millennium BCE. Bastet statueEgyptian cat statue representing the goddess Bastet. HorusHorus, statue at his temple in Idfū, Egypt. Passover commemorates the exodus from slavery to freedom Jews experienced under the Pharaoh’s rule in ancient Egypt.