The Kush empire adopted most of their religion from the Egyptians, they built the same types of pyramids which served as tombs and they worshipped the same gods. They did adopt the Cult of Isis from the Egyptian people. Most of these cults were to worship Egyptian era gods. However unlike the Egyptians they did form their own gods, such as Apedemak, god of victory and agriculture.
The Kush generally coped with the difficulties of their lives by praying or worshipping their gods. Like the Egyptians they would pray to them for certain things to happen such as the flooding of the Nile river for their crops. Other than that the people of the Kush however, much like the Egyptians, were mostly non religious and used other means to cope. The Kush would simply pray to gods and that was what they did to help themselves.
The Kush get a C for religion. It did not serve much of a purpose in their society, and because they basically copied the Egyptian religion word for word. The problem with this is that they barley adapted it their society. The overall problem would be that they did not do much in terms of uniting the community and society. If they did make a better effort to help with their society maybe they would have gotten farther in their times.
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