Tutankhamun: what did he believe?

As the face of the boy king Tutankhamun is revealed,and in London excitement rises at the return of the exhibition of tomb artefacts,  it is worth stopping to consider what the makers of these astonishing things believed about life and death. 

This site is informative: Ancient Egyptians tried with poetic energy to understand their place in the universe: their mythology centers itself on nature, the earth, sky, moon, sun, stars, and the Nile River.  Biblical pechoes are startling: In the beginning of time was Nu: a vast area of swirling watery chaos and as the floods receded the land appeared. The  god Atum arose: he mated with his shadow and became the Great He-She, a bisexual. Atum gave birth to Shu and Tefnut: Shu represented the air and the principles of life and Tefnut represented rain and principles of order. And so on to the more familiar Isis, Osiris, and the rest. It is their belief in the afterlife which gives us the artefacts unveiled by Howard Carter the power of their poetry which makes us, even now, shiver a little at the idea of the curse...

Comments

[John Lovett]

You state "Biblical pechoes are startling". I have tried in vain to find the word "pechoes" in three dictionaries although Google does come up with an interesting result.
I would simply point out that the Genesis record has "God said let there be ...... and it was so" There is no mating of gods of any kind. Surely creation was all 'ex nihilo'. All ancient creation stories involve the mention of earth, sea, sky etc but in their case they are all made from pre-existing material. The biblical account of creation is that it came into being by the word of God. "It is by faith we understand that the universe was created by God's word." Heb 11:3 (TEV) An echo? Mmmmmmm. Not really.

[Nancy]

The pharoahs of egypt were pagans who worshiped the disk "god" - the sun. This is freely stated by the guides at the royal egyptian museum in cairo.

[Nikky]

Tutankhamun believed in after life. His purpose in a tomb was that no-one would enter his tomb. It was so well hidden for a REASON!!! Why do you think Howard Carter died? Because Tutankhamun swore a curse to anyone that entered his tomb.