Myths and Legends - Ancient Egypt

About this eBook

Author

Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955

Title

Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Credits

Produced by Madelaine Kilsby, Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Egypt -- Religion

Category

Text

eBook-No.

43662

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43662

Release Date

September 7, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MYTHS AND LEGENDS — ANCIENT EGYPT — by
2. 2.LEWIS SPENCE — Author of "The Myths of Mexico and Peru," — "The Civilisation of Ancient Mexico," "The Popol Vuh," — "The Myths of the North American Indians"
3. 3.PREFACE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I: 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 — CHAPTER II: 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 — CHAPTER III: THE PRIESTHOOD: MYSTERIES AND TEMPLES — The Priesthood — The College of Thebes — Mysteries — The Greek Mysteries — The Egyptian Temple — The Holy Place — CHAPTER IV: THE CULT OF OSIRIS — Osiris — The Myth of Osiris — Set, the Enemy — The Tamarisk-tree — The Grief of Isis — The Vengeance of Horus — Sir J.G. Frazer on Osiris — Primitive Conceptions of the Moon — Osiris and the Persephone Myth — A New Osirian Theory — 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 — CHAPTER V: THE GREAT GODS — Ra, the Sun-God — Rat — Fusion of Myths — Ra and Osiris — The Sacred Beetle — Amen — Amen's Rise to Power — The Oracle of Jupiter-Ammon — Mut the Mother — The Seker-boat — Sekhmet — 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 — CHAPTER VI: EGYPTIAN LITERATURE — Egyptian Language and Writing — The Hieroglyphs — Literature — The Cat and the Jackal — Travellers' Tales — The Story of Saneha — The Shipwrecked Sailor — The Fable of the Head and the Stomach — The Rebuking of Amasis — Tales of Magic — The Parting of the Waters — The Prophecy of Dedi — The Visit of the Goddesses — Lyric and Folk Poetry — The True History of Setne and his son Se-Osiris [7] — 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 — CHAPTER VII: MAGIC — Antiquity of Egyptian Magic — The Wandering Spirit — Coercing the Gods — Names of Power — 'Right Speaking' — A Magical Conspiracy — Amulets — Spells — The Gibberish of Magic — The Tale of Setne — A Game of Draughts with the Dead — Medical Magic — Alchemy — Animal Transformation — Dreams — Mummy Magic — CHAPTER VIII: FOREIGN AND ANIMAL GODS: THE LATE PERIOD — Foreign Deities — Asiatic Gods — 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 — CHAPTER IX: EGYPTIAN ART — The Materials of Painting — New Empire Art — Egyptian Art Influences — Artistic Remains — Egyptian Colour-harmonies — The Great Simplicity of Egyptian Art — GLOSSARY AND INDEX — THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN — GLOSSARY AND INDEX — Table of Contents

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