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The Religion of Ancient Egypt

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The text surveys ancient Egyptian religious thought, classifying deities (animal-headed, anthropomorphic, cosmic, abstract, and foreign) and examining beliefs about human nature, the afterlife, creation myths, and ritual practice. It treats priesthood organization, sacred books, private devotion, animal worship, and ethical views, and traces how religious forms and symbols operated in temples and cemeteries. Chapters outline funerary doctrine, cultic rites, and theological categories, offering an organized, comparative account of how religious institutions and ideas evolved and interacted across historical periods.


VULTURE, 25.


WITCHCRAFT, 3.

Worship of Egypt spread over the world, 90-93.




Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty
at the Edinburgh University Press



RELIGIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

ANIMISM.
By EDWARD CLODD, Author of The Story of Creation.


PANTHEISM.
By JAMES ALLANSON PICTON, Author of The Religion of the Universe.


THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA.
By Professor GILES, LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge.


THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE.
By JANE HARRISON, Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Author Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion.


ISLAM IN INDIA.
By T. W. ARNOLD, Assistant Librarian at the India Office, Author of The Preaching of Islam.


ISLAM.
By SYED AMEER ALI. M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.'s High Court of Judicature in Bengal, Author of The Spirit of Islam and The Ethics of Islam.


MAGIC AND FETISHISM.
By Dr. A. C. HADDON, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cambridge University.


THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
By Professor W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, F.R.S.


THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA.
By THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, late of the British Museum.


BUDDHISM. 2 vols.
By Professor RHYS DAVIDS, LL.D., late Secretary of The Royal Asiatic Society.


HINDUISM.
By Dr. L. D. BARNETT, of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., British Museum.


SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.
By WILLIAM A. CRAIGIE, Joint Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.


CELTIC RELIGION.
By Professor ANWYL, Professor of Welsh at University College, Aberystwyth.


THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
By CHARLES SQUIRE, Author of The Mythology of the British Islands.


JUDAISM.
By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cambridge University, Author of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.


PRIMITIVE OR NICENE CHRISTIANITY.
By JOHN SUTHERLAND BLACK, LL.D., Joint Editor of the Encyclopaedia Biblica.


SHINTOISM.
ZOROASTRIANISM.
MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIANITY.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ITALY.


Other Volumes to follow.




Transcriber's notes:

The ae-ligature character was not used consistently in the source book.

In some cases, the god's name "Bes" has an e-macron, and in others a standard e. No attempt was made to regularize this.

Footnotes have been renumbered sequentially and moved to the end of their respective chapters.