The keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum offers studies in Egyptian mythology. Lavishly illustrated with plates and line drawings. The Egyptian hieroglyphs are translated, and actual excerpts in hieroglyph abound in this scholarly work. Selected contents: The gods of Egypt; Primitive gods and nome-gods; Hell and the damned; The myths of Ra; Thoth, Maat and the other goddesses who were associated with him; The Horus gods.
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GIVE BUDGE THE CREDIT HE DESERVES!,
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This review is from: Gods of the Egyptians or Studies in Egyptian Mythology (two volume set) (Hardcover)
I noticed many criticizing Budge for this 2-vol. set on the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt. To his credit, he provides much useful and obscure information that modern authors tend to leave out. If you want simple definitions of the gods and goddesses, then no, these volumes aren't for you; but, the Ancient Egyptians religion was not a simple one. I love Budge's books more that anything because he provides the heiroglyphic texts for you to see for yourself, you don't have to rely on what someone else says they mean. There are times he makes statements about the Egyptians that are now considered untrue (i.e. that they were savages... or other statements about their religion) but if you read his other books, you will find that his opinion changed over time, and he says so in his books. I would recommend any of Budge's books for the extensive amount of information they provide, and the actual heiroglyphic texts they provide for you to translate yourself if you choose to.
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AMONG the gods who were known to the Egyptians in very early times were AMEN and his consort AMENT, , and their names are found in the Pyramid Texts, e.g., Unas, line 558, where they are mentioned immediately after the pair of gods NAU and NEN, , and in connexion with the twin Lion-gods Shu and Tefnut, who are described as the two gods who made their own bodies, and with the goddess TEMT, the female counterpart of Tem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mummied form, combatant gods, solar disk encircled, sep sen, funeral chest, sepulchral meals, thou mighty one, early dynastic times, two plumes, predynastic times, papyrus swamps, thou shinest, thou settest, grant thou, thy members, watery abyss, hieroglyphic texts, white crown, divine food, thy limbs, thou lord, thou risest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book of the Dead, Pyramid Texts, Boole of the Dead, Signor Lanzone, British Museum, Judgment Scene, Upper Egypt, First Cataract, Lower Egypt, Ram of Mendes, Ist Dynasty, Khensu Nefer-hetep, Metternich Stele, Boolc of the Dead, New Empire, Early Empire, Papyrus of Ani, Great Bear, Great Cackler, Herakleopolis Magna, The Dekans, Virgin Mary, Vth Dynasty, Elysian Fields, Great House New!
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AMONG the gods who were known to the Egyptians in very early times were AMEN and his consort AMENT, , and their names are found in the Pyramid Texts, e.g., Unas, line 558, where they are mentioned immediately after the pair of gods NAU and NEN, , and in connexion with the twin Lion-gods Shu and Tefnut, who are described as the two gods who made their own bodies, and with the goddess TEMT, the female counterpart of Tem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mummied form, combatant gods, solar disk encircled, sep sen, funeral chest, sepulchral meals, thou mighty one, early dynastic times, two plumes, predynastic times, papyrus swamps, thou shinest, thou settest, grant thou, thy members, watery abyss, hieroglyphic texts, white crown, divine food, thy limbs, thou lord, thou risest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book of the Dead, Pyramid Texts, Boole of the Dead, Signor Lanzone, British Museum, Judgment Scene, Upper Egypt, First Cataract, Lower Egypt, Ram of Mendes, Ist Dynasty, Khensu Nefer-hetep, Metternich Stele, Boolc of the Dead, New Empire, Early Empire, Papyrus of Ani, Great Bear, Great Cackler, Herakleopolis Magna, The Dekans, Virgin Mary, Vth Dynasty, Elysian Fields, Great House New!
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- The Golden Ass (Dodo Press) by Lucius Apuleius on page 265
- Ancient Fragments by Isaac Preston Cory on page 340
- The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day by Book of Hte Dead on page 46
- The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston on page 284
- Religion of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred Wiedemann on page 284
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