Ancient Egypt Unit - Gods and Goddesses
Description
“Gods and Goddesses” is one of ten songs I’ve written on the subject of Ancient Egypt. The whole pack is available from my store.
The zip file contains:
1. PDF of the music
2. The lyrics in a separate Word document
3. An mp3 vocal backing track
4. An mp3 piano backing track
5. PowerPoint with both the vocal and piano tracks embedded (great if you have speakers attached to your whiteboard!). See the illustration to see the icons – the one on the top left is for the vocal, the one on the right is piano only.
6. PowerPoint of the staff notation
I hope you and your pupils enjoy singing the song! If you do you may want to check out my complete “Ancient Egypt” pack. It contains songs about Tutankhamun, the pyramids, the Nile, mummies, hieroglyphics, the Sphinx, toys and games and Egyptian gods and goddesses.
I’d really appreciate your feedback!
Happy singing!
Donna
10. Gods and Goddesses
Chorus:
Many gods in Egyptian life
To help each day, to keep you safe
And protect you from strife.
All these gods were to keep you from harm.
They had the heads of animals
But were often drawn in human form.
Scarab beetles symbolized Khepri,
Sun God in the morning.
By the evening he became Atum,
Or he could be Re Harakhty too.
Chorus:
Many gods in Egyptian life
To help each day, to keep you safe…
Thoth the Moon God, Ibis for a head,
Beak a crescent moon shape.
So the bird became the symbol Thoth,
God of wisdom and of healing too.
Tawaret the hippopotamus,
God of all the children.
Sekhmet had a lionesses head.
Vengeance was her job so please take care.
Chorus:
Many gods in Egyptian life
To help each day, to keep you safe…
Khnum, the ram’s head, god of all the Nile,
Always spoke to Hapy.
Every year the flooding of the Nile
Was arranged by Khnum and Hapy too.
Amun Re was King of all the gods
and protected Pharaoh.
Akhenaten banished all the rest.
Tutankhamun brought them back once more.
Chorus:
Many gods in Egyptian life
To help each day, to keep you safe…
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