The ancient Greek historian Herodotus writes: The Egyptians are religious to excess, beyond any other nation in the world... they are meticulous in everything which concerns their religion... It was only, if I may put it so, the day before yesterday that the Greeks came to know the origin and form of the various gods... The names of all the gods came to Greece from Egypt... for the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt from the beginning of time.
