Life in Ancient EgyptLife in Ancient Egypt involved orderly living. The Nile flooded and the sun regularly dried the land each year. People lived their lives in an orderly manner that required them to follow established routines from year to year. This routine was greatly integrated into the Egyptian belief in the spiritual world and the religion it soon became. Egyptian religion helped people define their lives and gave them a reason to live. There was an afterlife to hope for and a spiritual rule of law that would take care of them until then. There was also a state created by religion to rule the people properly. Therefore, the most important role that religion played in Egypt was to give people the spiritual definition and structure of the ordered life they lived. Egyptian religion revolved around death and the afterlife because it was believed that an individual's life would continue on a different plateau. after their death, life being only a transitional stage. It was a strong belief that death was only a passage to another life that one would live; this life was actually more important than the one a person was living in the current life. “So there is an air of permanence in Egypt; the past is never far from the present. ” (Mckay 25) Therefore, people lived their lives waiting for death and the afterlife and therefore their lives revolved around it. The ancient Egyptians believed that when a person died, they embarked on a journey to another world, where they would have the ability to lead a new life. Egypt was a society whose climate never really killed anything and simply brought things back to life. "The climate of Egypt is so stable that change is cyclical and... middle of paper ... spiritual definition of the structure by which to live life. They had a definition of what was happening around them in terms of science and natural events. It gave people the opportunity to structure their lives around events. It also eliminated fear. and directed happiness toward death People were given order in their lives that could have been chaos if death had never been understood People were also given structure in terms of law and order. religious writings provided. The state was also strong and orderly because of how people received structure from religion in their lives. Thus, in Egyptian life, the most important function of religion. was to give spiritual definition to the ordered and structured lives of people..