Significance of Ancient Egyptian Symbols in Religious Rituals and Practices The Ancient Egyptians understood the power of words and the hidden force behind these glorious Ancient Egyptian symbols. The Egyptians believed that they were the keys to bliss and the gifts of nature and the cosmos which was controlled by the golden gods and goddesses of Egypt. There were the ultimate tools to communicate with the gods and the forces of nature. They were utilized and fully used as the foundation of their religion. These ancient Egyptian symbols were often incorporated into religious objects, such as amulets, statues, paintings, carvings, and temple decorations. They were also used in hieroglyphics, which were the written language of ancient Egypt plus used in their practices, festivals, and rituals to express their religious beliefs and to seek protection, guidance, and blessings from the divine. The pharaohs and the high priests are always seen holding a number of Egyptian symbols like the Ankh, Djed, Was Specter, the Pschent Crown, the Crook and Flail, and more.

Influence in Egyptian culture Set and Horus support the pharaoh. The reconciled rival gods often stand for the unity of Egypt under the rule of its king.
Because the Egyptians rarely described theological ideas explicitly, the implicit ideas of mythology formed much of the basis for Egyptian religion. The purpose of Egyptian religion was the maintenance of maat, and the concepts that myths express were believed to be essential to maat. The rituals of Egyptian religion were meant to make the mythic events, and the concepts they represented, real once more, thereby renewing maat. The rituals were believed to achieve this effect through the force of heka, the same connection between the physical and divine realms that enabled the original creation. For this reason, Egyptian rituals often included actions that symbolized mythical events. Temple rites included the destruction of models representing malign gods like Set or Apophis, private magical spells called upon Isis to heal the sick as she did for Horus,[104] and funerary rites such as the Opening of the mouth ceremony and ritual offerings to the dead evoked the myth of Osiris’ resurrection. Yet rituals rarely, if ever, involved dramatic reenactments of myths. There are borderline cases, like a ceremony alluding to the Osiris myth in which two women took on the roles of Isis and Nephthys, but scholars disagree about whether these performances formed sequences of events. Much of Egyptian ritual was focused on more basic activities like giving offerings to the gods, with mythic themes serving as ideological background rather than as the focus of a rite.  Nevertheless, myth and ritual strongly influenced each other. Myths could inspire rituals, like the ceremony with Isis and Nephthys; and rituals that did not originally have a mythic meaning could be reinterpreted as having one, as in the case of offering ceremonies, in which food and other items given to the gods or the dead were equated with the Eye of Horus.