The Egyptian Heaven and Hell (2) - Couverture rigide

Budge, E. A. Wallis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138778923 ISBN 13 : 9781138778924

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the Åm-Tuat and of the Book of Gates, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. In the Book of Gates the doctrines of the sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily upon his eternal body.

The object of all the Books of the Other World was to provide the dead with a ‘guide’ or ‘handbook,’ containing a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the Kingdom of Osiris, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for an unimpeded journey from this world to the next.

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E. A. Wallis Budge

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138778923
• ISBN 13: 9781138778924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
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