Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of Ancient Egypt: Delivered in May and June, 1879Williams and Norgate, 1884 - 259 pages |
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... later times Shu repre- sented Air , but this is only because the Dawn brings fresh breezes - Oriens afflavit anhelis . But in all the early texts Shu is the rising Sun. The Harris magical papyrus identifies Shu with the Sun travelling ...
... later times Shu repre- sented Air , but this is only because the Dawn brings fresh breezes - Oriens afflavit anhelis . But in all the early texts Shu is the rising Sun. The Harris magical papyrus identifies Shu with the Sun travelling ...
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... later periods of Egyptian religion was confounded with Set . But Set represents Night , and in the olden days was called the great and living god and lord of heaven . Apepi never was called a god . He therefore represents , not a ...
... later periods of Egyptian religion was confounded with Set . But Set represents Night , and in the olden days was called the great and living god and lord of heaven . Apepi never was called a god . He therefore represents , not a ...
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... later periods . But when the Greeks adopted foreign gods , they Hellenized them . This is not what I meant when I denied the transmission of religious ideas from Egyptians to Greeks . I do not believe that Serapis was an Egyptian god ...
... later periods . But when the Greeks adopted foreign gods , they Hellenized them . This is not what I meant when I denied the transmission of religious ideas from Egyptians to Greeks . I do not believe that Serapis was an Egyptian god ...
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... later ages identical with the primitive religion of the country ? Had there been advance or retrogression ? The solution of these and many other obvious ques- tions was quite impossible until very recently . The learned Brücker , in his ...
... later ages identical with the primitive religion of the country ? Had there been advance or retrogression ? The solution of these and many other obvious ques- tions was quite impossible until very recently . The learned Brücker , in his ...
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... later stage of the language in which the hieroglyphic texts are written , and the vocabulary of the latter is full of words which are as intelligible to the Coptic scholar as the infinitives of Latin verbs are to a mere Italian scholar ...
... later stage of the language in which the hieroglyphic texts are written , and the vocabulary of the latter is full of words which are as intelligible to the Coptic scholar as the infinitives of Latin verbs are to a mere Italian scholar ...
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abode Abydos Amenhotep II Amon ancient ancient Egypt Anubis Book Brugsch called Chabas Champollion chapter Christian cloth coffin Dead deceased deity Dendera derived divine doctrine dynasty earth Egyp Egypt Egyptian language Egyptian mythology Egyptian religion Egyptian texts Egyptian word eighteenth dynasty eleventh dynasty evidence existence expressed father feast Fravashi funereal genius goddess gods Greek hath Hathor heart heaven Hebrew Heliopolis Henotheism hieroglyphic Horus hymns Indo-European inscriptions Isis king language Lectures legend living Lord Maat manuscripts Mariette Max Müller meaning monuments mother Museum myth mythology Nephthys nether world notion nutar nutra Osiris papyrus period person prayers Ptah Pyramids Rameses reign religious Renenet represented Rougé royal sacred says scholars Semitic Seti signifies soul sovereign speak sun-god symbol tablet Tefnut Tehutimes temple Thebes thine things thou art thou hast tion tombs translated verb worship written
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