Research Catalog

Title

The death of gods in ancient Egypt : an essay on Egyptian religion and the frame of time / Jane B. Sellers.

Author

Sellers, Jane

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1992.

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Details

Description

xxii, 378 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

• Mythology, Egyptian
• Astronomy, Egyptian
• Egypt > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-368) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First Guide through the Murky Landscape of Egyptian Gods -- Pt. 1. Story and the Celestial Dome -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Necessary Foundation -- 3. Inheritor of the Throne -- 4. Necessary Foundation: Da Capo -- 5. Allowable Questions? -- Pt. 2. Egyptian Writings and the Quiet Sun -- 6. 'Mighty is your striking power' -- 7. 'Who then is it?' -- 8. Pyramid Texts c. 2342-2181 BC -- 9. Eighty Years of the Gods' Contending -- 10. 'What then is this?' -- Pt. 3. Time of Crisis -- 11. Judgement of the Council of the Gods -- 12. Birthday of Complexities and the Secret of the Will -- 13. Divine Falcon -- 14. Second Guide through the Murky Landscape of Egyptian Gods -- Pt. 4. Throne of Fire -- 15. Death and Rebirth of a Constellation -- 16. Osiris given the 'Silent Land' -- 17. King of the Wood -- 18. Changes in the World Order and the Hurled Thunderbolt -- 19. 'That Day of Uniting the Two Lands' -- Pt. 5. Framework of Time -- 20. Succession of World Ages -- 21. Civil Calendar -- a Deeply Felt Conviction -- 22. Sidetracked on the Track of Time -- 23. At the Threshold of Myth: Pure Chance or Concealed Numbers? -- 24. Discovery of a Barleycorn -- Pt. 6. Ancient Beginnings -- 25. Astronomical Gleanings from the Sed Festival, Part I -- 26. Sed Festival, Part II -- 27. Site of 'IWNW' in Predynastic Egypt -- 28. 'Scene in the mummy chamber' -- 29. Sense of Control: The Litany of Re, The Book of the Caverns, and The Coffin Texts -- Pt. 7. Ancient Mysteries -- 30. Broad Hall of the Two Truths -- 31. Ritual Regicide? -- 32. Empty Tombs -- 33. Dates -- 34. Consuming Interest in the Celestial Universe -- 35. Promised Return -- 36. 'Rites of Osiris'.

ISBN

0140153071

LCCN

^^^93114826^

OCLC

• 26246082
• SCSB-11187707

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library