The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of Ancient EgyptScribner, 1880 - 270 pages |
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abode Abydos Akerblad Amenhotep II Amon ancient Egypt ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION Anubis Apis Book Brugsch called Chabas Champollion chapter character Christian coffin considered Coptic Dead deceased deity Dendera derived divine doctrine Dümichen earth Egyp Egyptian language Egyptian texts Egyptian word eighteenth dynasty eleventh dynasty evidence existence father feast funereal genius goddess gods Greek hath Hathor heaven Hebrew hieratic hieroglyphic Horus hymns Indo-European inscriptions Isis king LECTURE Lepsius living Lord Maat manuscripts Mariette Max Müller meaning monuments mother Museum myth mythology nature Nephthys nether world Nile notion nutar nutra Osiris papyrus period person prayers Ptah Pyramids Rameses Rameses II reign religious represented Rougé royal sacred says scholars Semitic Seti signifies soul sovereigns speak sun-god symbols tablet Tefnut Tehutimes temple Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast tion tombs translated verb worship written
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Page 73 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 103 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 111 - Look up and see the sun as a bridegroom richly dressed, and greatly pleased, coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race...
Page 56 - TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ORIENTALISTS. Held in London in September 1874. Edited by Robert K. Douglas, Hon.
Page 65 - ... construction of the discharging chambers over the roof of the principal apartment, in the alignment of the sloping galleries, in the provision of ventilating shafts, and in all the wonderful contrivances of the structure. All these, too, are carried out with such precision that, notwithstanding the immense superincumbent weight, no settlement in any part can be detected to the extent of an appreciable fraction of an inch. Nothing more perfect, mechanically, has ever been erected since that time...
Page 233 - He maketh his might a buckler. He is not graven in marble as an image bearing the double crown. He is not beheld ; he hath neither ministrant nor offerings ; he is not adored in sanctuaries ; his abode is not known ; no shrine [of his] is found with painted figures. There is no building that can contain him Unknown is his name in heaven ; he doth not manifest his forms ! Vain are all representations." Yet the last of these passages, which would seem to have reference to the purest worship of one...
Page 77 - Doing that which is right and hating that which is wrong, I was bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, a refuge to him that was in want; that which I did to him, the great God hath done to me.
Page 226 - When these individual gods are invoked, they are not conceived as limited by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity — as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every single god.
Page 239 - The whole land of Egypt and all peoples repeat all thy names at thy rising, to magnify thy rising in like manner as thy setting. Thou, O God, who in truth art the living one, standest before the two eyes.