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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... 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 regularly ...
... 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 regularly ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... period , argue that the Egyptian religion was essentially mono- theistic , though disfigured by polytheistic imagery . The oppo- site parties necessarily admit each other's facts , but in the analysis of these facts they are , I believe ...
... period , argue that the Egyptian religion was essentially mono- theistic , though disfigured by polytheistic imagery . The oppo- site parties necessarily admit each other's facts , but in the analysis of these facts they are , I believe ...
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... period of not less than three thousand years . It may have been in existence for many centuries anterior to the earliest of the monuments which have been preserved . Its origin is a matter , not of history , but of speculation . Its ...
... period of not less than three thousand years . It may have been in existence for many centuries anterior to the earliest of the monuments which have been preserved . Its origin is a matter , not of history , but of speculation . Its ...
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... period ( some seven centuries before Christ ) , the character was still further abridged and debased , and assumed the form now called demotic , and this is the second cha- racter on the Rosetta stone . A great many documents in our ...
... period ( some seven centuries before Christ ) , the character was still further abridged and debased , and assumed the form now called demotic , and this is the second cha- racter on the Rosetta stone . A great many documents in our ...
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Abydos Amenhotep II Amon ancient ancient Egypt Anubis Book Brugsch called Chabas 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 eyes father Fravashi funereal goddess gods Greek Hail to thee 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 moral mother Museum myth mythology Nephthys nether world Nile notion nutar nutra Osiris papyrus period prayers Ptah Pyramids Rameses reign religious Renenet represented Rougé royal sacred says scholars Seti signifies soul sovereign speak sun-god symbol tablet Tefnut Tehuti temple Thebes thine abode things thou art thou hast thy name tion tombs translated verb worship
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