Chap. 1 Introductory
Local Gods—Animism—Fetishism and Totemism—Creation Myths—The 'Companies' of the Gods—The Egyptian Idea of God—Deities of the Pyramid Texts—Early Burials—The Pyramid—Pyramidal Architecture—'Lost' Pyramids—Mummification—Funeral Offerings—The Ka—The Ba.
Chap. 2 Exploration, History and Customs
The Nile Valley—Racial Origin—Egyptian Exploration—Early Researches—Town Planning—Palaces and Mansions—Life and Law in Ancient Egypt—Commerce—Agriculture—Legal Code—Science—The Peasantry—Costume.
Chap. 3 The Priesthood: Mysteries and Temples
The Priesthood—The College of Thebes—Mysteries—The Greek Mysteries—The Egyptian Temple—The Holy Place.
Chap. 4 The Cult of Osiris
Isis—Isis as the Wind—Manifold Attributes of Isis—Horus—The Dream of Thothmes—Heru-Behudeti—The Myth of the Winged Disk—The Slaughter of the Monsters—Other Horus Legends—The Black Hog—Nephthys—Set—Set and the Ass—Anubis—Thoth—Thoth as Soul-Recorder—Maāt—The Book of the Dead—A 'Discovery' 3400 Years Old—The Three Recensions—The Place of Reeds—The Journey of Osiris—The Place of Punishment—The Egyptian Heaven—How the Blessed Lived.
Chap. 5 The Great Gods
The Seven Wise Ones—Bast—The Festival of Bast—Nefer-Tem—I-em-hetep—Khnemu—The Legend of the Nile's Source—Satet—Anqet—Aten— A Religion of One God— A Social Revolt— Aten's Attributes—A Hymn to Aten—Hathor—Hathor as Love-Goddess—The Slaying of Men—The Forms of Hathor—Hapi, the God of the Nile—Counterparts of Hapi—Nut—Taurt—Hekt—Khonsu—Minor Deities.
Chap. 6 Egyptian Literature
The Shipwrecked Sailor—The Fable of the Head and the Stomach—The Rebuking of Amasis—Tales of Magic—The Parting of the Waters—The Visit of the Goddesses—Lyric and Folk Poetry—The True History of Setne and his son Se-Osiris—A Vision of Amenti—The Reading of the Sealed Letter—The Contents of the Letter—Magic versus Magic—The War of Enchantments—How Setnau Triumphed over the Assyrians—The Peasant and the Workman—Story of the Two Brothers—The Treachery of Bitou's Wife—The Doomed Prince—The Visit of Ounamounou to the Coasts of Egypt—The Story of Rhampsinites—Civil War in Egypt: The Theft of the Cuirass—The Birth of Hatshepsut—How Thoutii took the Town of Joppa.
Chap. 7 Magic
Antiquity of Egyptian Magic—The Wandering Spirit—Coercing the Gods—Names of Power—'Right Speaking'—A Magical Conspiracy—Amulets—Spells—The Tale of Setne—A Game of Draughts with the Dead—Medical Magic—Alchemy—Animal Transformation—Dreams—Mummy Magic.
Chap. 8 Foreign and Animal Gods: The Late Perod
Ashtoreth—Semitic and African Influence—Sacred Animals—Apis—The Apis Oracle—The Crocodile—The Lion—The Lion Guardian—The Cat—The Dog—The Hippopotamus—Other Animals—The Ibis—Sacred Trees—The Lotus—Religion of the Late Period—A Religious Reaction—The Worship of Animals—Religion under Persian Rule—The Ptolemaic Period—Fusion of Greek and Egyptian Ideas—The Legend of Sarapis—An Architectural Renaissance—Change in the Conception of the Underworld—Twilight of the Gods.
Chap. 9 Egyptian Art
The Materials of Painting—New Empire Art—Egyptian Art Influences—Artistic Remains—Egyptian Colour-harmonies—The Great Simplicity of Egyptian Art.