Religion of the Ancient EgyptiansNone of the ancient civilizations valued religion more highly than Egypt, where every civic and public issue was influenced by religious considerations. The foremost artifacts of the Nile Valley, its temples and tombs, attest to the dominance of religious culture, but even secular objects from ancient Egypt tend to exhibit a connection with the worship of higher powers. This far-reaching and highly readable study offers an accessible overview of the predominant role of religion in ancient Egyptian life. Rather than a systematic or interpretive work, it devotes itself to a factual presentation of the culture's principal deities, myths, religious ideas, and doctrines, placing particular emphasis on the concepts bearing historical significance. Written by an expert Egyptologist with a thorough understanding of the ancient languages, this book is firmly based on original texts and offers literal translations of passages from the most important documents. Topics include explorations of sun worship and solar myths, the practice of magic and sorcery, ritual use of amulets, the worship of animals, and an introduction to the chief Egyptian deities--particularly Osiris, the god of the underworld and of vegetation, and the doctrine of immortality associated with his worship. The text is completed by 73 handsome black-and-white illustrations of religious art. Unabridged republication of the edition published by H. Grevel & Co., London, 1897. Index. 73 black-and-white illustrations. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
SUN WORSHIP | 14 |
SOLAR MYTHS | 52 |
THE PASSAGE OF THE SUN THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD | 81 |
THE CHIEF DEITIES | 103 |
FOREIGN DEITIES | 148 |
THE WORSHIP OF ANIMALS | 172 |
OSIRIS AND HIS CYCLE | 207 |
THE OSIRIAN DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY | 234 |
MAGIC AND SORCERY | 261 |
AMULETS | 284 |
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Amen Ra amulet Ancient Egyptian Anubis Apis Aten bark Bekhten body Book called CHAPTER chief chiefly coffin connexion creatures crocodile crown cult dead death deceased demons divine doctrine Duat Dynasty E. A. Wallis Budge earth Egyptian religion enemies ennead father fields figure find fire first funerary goddess gods Greeks Hail to thee Harmakhis Hathor hawk headed heart heaven Heliopolis hence honour Horbehudti Horus hypocephalus identified illustrations immortality incarnate influence inscriptions Isis Khepera Khnum Khunsu king Kingdom land legend Lord Lower Egypt magic formulas majesty Memphis mummy myth Nephthys Nile nome official origin Osirian Osiris papyrus Pharaoh priests Ptah Rameses regarded represented sacred animal sanctuary serpent significance solar deities soul spake Sphinx stelae supposed symbol Tefnut temple texts Thebes Thoth Thou art tomb triad Underworld unto Upper winged sun winged sun disk words worship
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