What role did the priests play in the lives of the Egyptians?

In ancient Egypt, it was believed that nature and man were ruled by the gods. If the gods are angered, misfortunes will fall on the cities. For the cult of the gods, the ancient Egyptians erected temples, under which the servants of God, the priests, lived. Both ordinary people and pharaohs listened to the opinion of the priests. The pharaohs gave the temples gold, slaves, arable land and gardens. The priests played an important role not only in the religious life of the Egyptians. They were engaged in healing, teaching, breeding new varieties of plants, knew how to accurately determine the date of the flood of the Nile, etc. The influence of the stars on the life and fate of a person was also studied by the priests.