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Muḥammadan Months Abyssinian Months Egyptian Months The History of Áāhmes , son of Abana The Religion and Gods of Egypt The Modern Egyptians Sketch of Coptic History The Arabs and Muḥammadanism :: Muḥammad the Prophet ... The Hijra .
Muḥammadan Months Abyssinian Months Egyptian Months The History of Áāhmes , son of Abana The Religion and Gods of Egypt The Modern Egyptians Sketch of Coptic History The Arabs and Muḥammadanism :: Muḥammad the Prophet ... The Hijra .
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At the beginning of his work Manetho gives a list of gods and demi - gods who ruled over Egypt before Menes , the first human king of Egypt ; the thirty dynasties known to us he divides into three sections : 1 - XI . , XII .
At the beginning of his work Manetho gives a list of gods and demi - gods who ruled over Egypt before Menes , the first human king of Egypt ; the thirty dynasties known to us he divides into three sections : 1 - XI . , XII .
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According to Manetho , the reigns of the gods and demi - gods lasted in Egypt about 12,843 years , and according to Panodorus only about 1,1835 years . The gods and demi - gods are probably nothing more than a long series of petty ...
According to Manetho , the reigns of the gods and demi - gods lasted in Egypt about 12,843 years , and according to Panodorus only about 1,1835 years . The gods and demi - gods are probably nothing more than a long series of petty ...
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them had been elected to rule by Rā , and Åmen , and Ptaḥ , either by some motion made by the figures of the gods which were enshrined within their sanctuaries , or by declarations made on their behalf by the high priests .
them had been elected to rule by Rā , and Åmen , and Ptaḥ , either by some motion made by the figures of the gods which were enshrined within their sanctuaries , or by declarations made on their behalf by the high priests .
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The god whom this king delighted i.l. , the solar disk , which was regarded as the source of all things . The religion appears to have been a sort of ... In so far as it rejected all other gods , the Aten religion was monotheistic .
The god whom this king delighted i.l. , the solar disk , which was regarded as the source of all things . The religion appears to have been a sort of ... In so far as it rejected all other gods , the Aten religion was monotheistic .
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Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nile-- notes for travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 |
| Length | 955 pages |
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