All you need to know about the priests in the lives of the ancient Egyptians

We can learn a lot about civilizations from studying their religion, and ancient Egypt is a good example of this. The religion of ancient Egypt had a far-reaching influence on every aspect of daily life, and if you want to learn more about a religion it is better to start with its priests, and the priests lived The ancient Egyptians lived a life dedicated to their gods. In ancient Egypt, the priest's sole duty was to look after the god of their temple, unlike priests of most other religions.

We know that the priesthood actually originated in the Early Dynastic Period (3150-2613 BC) and underwent rapid development during the Old Kingdom (2613-2181 BC), and the priests of Egypt became very powerful, while their role was supposed to be to preserve religious beliefs and traditions. As they amassed great wealth and political power, they became important to the power of the pharaohs, and both men and women could join the clergy, thus receiving the same wages and performing the same duties, according to the ancient-origins website.

The Egyptian priesthood had a hierarchy, and the duties they performed depended on where they were in that hierarchy, the higher they were, the more lustrous their duties were, and the less they were, the more hard work they did.

The next rank of ancient Egyptian priests was the reading priest, whose job was to codify religious texts, teach other clergy, and recite haka (formal speech) in temples and during festivals.

At the end of the hierarchy were priests serving the gods in any way. There is no definitive list of the different types of ancient Egyptian priests, so their roles were varied, however, we have a record of several types of middle-ranking priests.
Since there are so many different types of priests, each with their own duties, it is difficult to summarize the "life of an Egyptian priest", with the exception of the high priest, most priests were only part-time. The priesthood was divided into "hours" and served only one month out of every four. The rest of the time, they lived their normal lives in society, often working as mid-level bureaucrats. During the service they lived within the complex of the temples of their deity.