cladking Wrote:
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> No, not necessarily specific but how ANY
> individual concept or god arose.

It depends on the deity. In general, they're kind of "kit bashed" from earlier animistic spirits. For instance, in the Levant (which includes part of Egypt), there are old traces of what may be a "bull cult" as well as goddess figurines (I'm thinking of Catalhyouk). Is Hathor (one of the oldest goddesses) a manifestation of this combination?

Who knows? Right now, we don't have enough evidence.


> I'm trying to get a feel for how the structure
> came into being. Right now
> all I have is the idea that they created Gods as
> they found them and then
> shared them as it suited their interests.

And as a reflection of their society. When they got kings, they figured the gods must also have kings.

> I'm trying to get a better handle on these to
> better understand the Pyramid
> Texts.

You should start by taking the pyramid texts apart and finding out when they were written (they cover a 3,000 year span of time... which saw many cultural and philosophical changes) and where they came from (different areas had different cultural nuances.)