Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future LifeCosimo, Inc., 2005 M08 1 - 212 pages A prolific Victorian Egyptologist explores, in this class book first published in 1899, the position of Ra, Osiris, Set, and Isis among the diverse pantheon of numerous deities of ancient Egypt, as well as their domination of the collective imagination of this sophisticated civilization. Hymns from The Book of the Dead illustrate the beliefs of the Egyptian peoples regarding the afterlife, judgment after death, resurrection, and immortality.The writings of E.A. Wallis Budge are considered somewhat controversial today because of his use of an archaic system of translation, but useful illustrations and an abundance of information make them necessary resources for students of the ancient world as well as those of the evolution of historical study. Conveying the beauty and power of the religion of ancient Egypt, this fascinating book remains an important work today.Sir E.A. WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum form 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead. |
Contents
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OSIRIS The God of the ResurrecTION | 41 |
THE Gons oF THE EGYPTIANS | 84 |
THE Judgment of the Dead | 110 |
THE RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY | 157 |
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Abydos Amen Anubis behold thy belief Chapters of Coming comest cometh creator dead deceased says Disk divine E. A. WALLIS BUDGE earth Egypt Egyptian religion ELYSIAN FIELDS eternity existence Eye of Horus father goddess gods Hail hath Hathor heart heaven Heliopolis Heracleopolis Hetep Homage to thee Horus Hunefer HYMN ideas Isis Isis and Nephthys judgment Khepera Khnemu king land live Maat Maati Meskhenet mighty mother Nebseni Nekhen Nephthys neter Nile Osiris Papyrus period Praise be unto primeval Ptah religious texts Renenet resurrection right and truth shrine soul spirit spiritual body stablished Sun-god symbol Tattu Tefnut Temu therein things Thoth thou art thou didst thou dost thou exalted Power thou hast thou lord thou risest thou who art thy name thyself tomb Typho Un-nefer underworld unto thee Vth dynasty words worship XVIIIth dynasty
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Page 45 - ... in that reverence and worship which they were to pay to the gods. With the same good disposition he afterwards travelled over the rest of the world inducing the people everywhere to submit to his discipline; not indeed compelling them by force of arms, but persuading them to yield to the strength of...
Page 60 - ... in his aspect as god of the resurrection and of eternal life that he appealed to men in the valley of the Nile; and for thousands of years men and women died believing that, inasmuch as all that was done for Osiris would be done for them symbolically, they like him would rise again and inherit life everlasting. However far back we trace religious ideas in Egypt, we never approach a time when it can be said that there did not exist a belief in the...
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