The Religion of Ancient Egypt - Couverture souple

Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0766149137 ISBN 13 : 9780766149137

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2003

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Book by Petrie W M Flinders

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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialised group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name. It is unfortunate that every other word for supernatural intelligences has become debased, so that we cannot well speak of demons, devils, ghosts, or fairies without implying a noxious or a trifling meaning, quite unsuited to the ancient deities that were so beneficent and powerful. If then we use the word god for such conceptions, it must always be with the reservation that the word has now a very different meaning from what it had to ancient minds. To the Egyptian the gods might be mortal; even Ra, the sun-god, is said to have grown old and feeble, Osiris was slain, and Orion, the great hunter of the heavens, killed and ate the gods. Nor was there any doubt that they might suffer while alive; one myth tells how Ra, as he walked on earth, was bitten by a magic serpent and suffered torments. The gods were also supposed to share in a life like that of man, not only in Egypt but in most ancient lands. Offerings of food and drink were constantly supplied to them, in Egypt laid upon the altars, in other lands burnt for a sweet savour. The Egyptian gods could not be cognisant of what passed on earth without being informed, nor could they reveal their will at a distant place except by sending a messenger; they were as limited as the Greek gods who required the aid of Iris to communicate one with another or with mankind. The gods, therefore, have no divine superiority to man in conditions or limitations; they can only be described as pre-existent, acting intelligences, with scarcely greater powers than man might hope to gain by magic or witchcraft of his own.

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Lanzone.-Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, 1881-86. 1312 pp., 408 pls. About £4 second hand. (The indispensable storehouse of facts and references.)

Wiedemann.-Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, 1897. 307 pp, 73 figs. 12s.6d. (The best general view of the subject.)

Wiedemann.-Article in supplement to Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible. (Excellent outline.)

Wiedemann.-Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of Immortality, 1895. 71 pp., 21 figs., 2 pls. 3s.

Maspero.-Dawn of Civilisation, see pp. 81-222, 1894. 25s. (A popular outline by a master.)

Maspero.-Études de Mythologie, 1893, 895 pp.

Maspero.-Inscriptions des Pyramides de Saqqara, 1894. 456 pp., 9 pl.

Renouf.-Book of the Dead, 1893-1902. 308 pp., 53 pl. £2. (The standard translation with the illustrations.)

Budge.-Gods of the Egyptians, 1904. 908 pp., 131 figs., 98 pls. £3, 3s. (Useful repertory, but illustrations not exact.)

Sayce.-Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, 1902. 509 pp. 7s. 6d. (Useful for comparative view.)

Petrie.-Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt, 1898. 176 pp. 2s. 6d. (A study of the nature of conscience, and the tribal aspect of religion.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0766149137
• ISBN 13: 9780766149137
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108