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Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations

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Kim Ringenbach's review would seem to refer to a different book - this one consists entirely of Egyptian legends presented in their original hieroglyphic form with Budge's translation. One would have preferred photostats or photos of the actual documents - as it is, the texts are written in Budge's font style, which is clear and easy to read, but doesn't give much practice in reading actual texts. However, this is a very useful document for those who are studying Egyptian. I was hoping for some more populist legends like the story of Sinuhe or the Shipwrecked Sailor - these are the typical "official" stories of creation and the gods.

I haven't read much of this book but just by paging through it it appears that the majority of the book is translations of hieroglyphic texts, accompanied by the hieroglyphics, so the previous review should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

Sir Wallis Budge did a great job of providing a summary and then a highly detailed image of Egyptian beliefs in this book. He includes the hierogliphic texts so that one can do the homework themselves. Everyone that is serious about religious studies should own this book. Christians might be surprised as to what's in this book as well.

This book has a great amount of text to learn hieroglyphs. Unfortunatenaly, I don't know if the translations are good, because I'm starting to learn...

Gimme back my Marvel Comics! Who wants all this stuff with all words and no color comic panels? Yech! They expect me to read all these paragraphs!!! Come on, if you don't know anything about the subject material, stick with Captain Marvel and reading boxes of Cheerios. This is one of the modern world's greatest Egyptologists presenting nine of the greatest myths of ancient Egypt, translated directly from the hieroglyphs. It doesn't get much better than this. No, you won't see any color glossies of Harrison Ford, and they do use long words made up of even six, seven, sometimes eight characters. And some of the sentences even contain as many as ten words! Or more! All in a row! But this is the real stuff, primary source material. Written thousands of years ago. True what the ancient Egyptians had to say probably doesn't quite compare to visceral, heady thrills of the adventures of Captain Marvel. But for the rest of the literate and educated world, this is required reading if you're seriously interested in ancient Egypt and their mythology.

This book basically tells you alot of boring stuff. It takes the fun out of Ancient Eygpt. It talks alot of who discovered what and when, more then anything else, atleast that's what I saw. I stopped reading it after it went on and on about people discovering the stuff. I mean, sure, we'd like to know who discovered it, but we would like to learn more about what they discovered, and what it means etc. This book is probably the worst I have ever gotten.