Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 29
Page 103
... dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports of the living . Men had come to be anxious for the state of their souls in the dread passages of the nether world . An army of priests , slowly fastening ...
... dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports of the living . Men had come to be anxious for the state of their souls in the dread passages of the nether world . An army of priests , slowly fastening ...
Page 104
... dead must be near the resting - place of the body had so far disappeared that the mortuary temple could be several miles from the tomb without impairing its efficiency . One will look in vain for shrines aboveground in the Valley of the ...
... dead must be near the resting - place of the body had so far disappeared that the mortuary temple could be several miles from the tomb without impairing its efficiency . One will look in vain for shrines aboveground in the Valley of the ...
Page 108
... dead . To speak of either set of gods as at all savoring of monotheism seems absurd , and yet it cannot be denied that the deities of the living , although varying from time to time in numbers and often in names , did tend most clearly ...
... dead . To speak of either set of gods as at all savoring of monotheism seems absurd , and yet it cannot be denied that the deities of the living , although varying from time to time in numbers and often in names , did tend most clearly ...
Page 109
... dead , through whose realms the sun passed at night on his way back to the east . If Ammon - Ra , or Horus , or some equivalent sun - god , is supreme in the visible world , Osiris is as supreme in the invisible . That the sun - god ...
... dead , through whose realms the sun passed at night on his way back to the east . If Ammon - Ra , or Horus , or some equivalent sun - god , is supreme in the visible world , Osiris is as supreme in the invisible . That the sun - god ...
Page 112
... dead . For you will see a representation of her in the Cairo museum in the form of a cow , giving the needful milk to the happy dead who have been justified before Osiris and are thus restored to life everlasting . She is much too ...
... dead . For you will see a representation of her in the Cairo museum in the form of a cow , giving the needful milk to the happy dead who have been justified before Osiris and are thus restored to life everlasting . She is much too ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship