Christian Egypt
Christianity brought with it a number of cultural & religious expectations more familiar to the modern day: an emphasis on 'traditional' gender roles; the outlaw of homosexuality; a Christian aristocracy. As with every other society swallowed up in the insatiable spread of Christianity, native, 'pagan' deities were vilified, religious monuments mutilated (Parkinson).
In spite of this, a unique Egyptian culture seems to have survived, even within Christian circles.
The Gnostics were a particular sect of Christianity who existed around the Mediterranean, as well as Egypt. The Gnostics believed the traditional God of the Bible to be a malevolent imposter deity who usurped an earlier creation goddess. Much of their practice involved efforts to undermine & reject the wider Christian morals relating to gender & heterosexuality (Cahana).
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal book of the Bible, involves a scene between Jesus & Mary Magdelene which appears to combine a Christian conception of the afterlife with that of old Egypt.
Verse 114 (1) states: '...Jesus said: Look, I will lead her that I may make her male, in order that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter into the kingdom of heaven....' (Blatz).