How did the Ancient Egyptian worship his God?

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Those huge and fancy and rich Temples were reserved for royalty and their friends, relatives, and associated government officials, along with a very large and prosperous priesthood. The common ordinary Egyptian set up a shrine in a corner of his home, away from its busiest rooms, where he could quietly  worship his own God in his own way. They believed in eternal life, as this passage from one of the texts indicates: "I am Shu, the god of unformed matter. My soul is God, my soul is eternity." But they didn't believe in any kind of resurrection of the body. Nowhere are we told that man's corruptible body will rise again. Instead, they said, "Soul to heaven, body to earth." And they repeated that in various forms down through the millennia, to the end of the Ptolemaic period. "Your essence is in heaven, your body in earth." and again, "Heaven has your soul, earth has your body."

 

And some of the ideas expressed in those very old hieroglyphic sacred texts are very similar to Biblical passages. For example: "The house of God what it hates is much speaking. Pray you with a loving heart, the petitions of which  all are in secret. He will do your business, he will hear that which you say, and will accept your offerings. In offering to your God, guard you against the things which He abominates." And again: "Give yourself to God; keep you yourself daily for God; and let tomorrow be as today."

 

Reading some of this, I'm struck by the fact that God and worshipping God is much older than most of us conceptualize. It goes back many thousands of years. Those above quotations are about 5,000 years old, and they were not new ideas then.