Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, UK, 1996

0801482488 / 9780801482489

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Scarce. This stimulating and thought provoking soft cover book is 249 pages in length, with many black-and-white text illustrations. Our copy is clean and in near fine condition. Photographs are available. "This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists. The book begins with a discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not invulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and little-known texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth. By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe".…

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Titel
Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods
Autor
Meeks, Dimitri; Favard-Meeks, Christine
Verlag
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, UK
Erscheinungsjahr
1996
Zustand
Near Fine
Schutzumschlag
No Jacket
Einband
Soft cover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0801482488
ISBN-13
9780801482489

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A large collection of privately owned publications, mostly relating to ancient Egypt (all periods), Nubia, and the surrounding areas, which have been gathered together over the course of the last fifty years. Books range from second-hand in good condition to extremely rare, with a number of recently acquired brand new volumes. Over the years I have also procured a selection of withdrawn university library books. The collection further includes a significant number of scholarly journals and popular magazines about the ancient world. Please browse the titles currently available. Additional works are still being added. There are hundreds more yet to be listed. If you should have any questions about any of these offerings, please feel free to inquire. Emails are attempted to be answered in an expeditious manner. Your purchases are always carefully wrapped and shipped promptly. The books come from a smoke-free household. Photographs are available to those seriously interested.…

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