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Religion
The ancient Egyptians were an extremely pious people.
Reverence and gratitude incited them to toil endlessly for their gods.
No walk through an Egyptian museum collection can be meaningfull
without at least a basic understanding of this religion.
An outline of ancient Egyptian religion
An introduction to the nature of
ancient Egyptian religion. About gods and ethics, rituals and myth,
kingship and state religion, folk religion and personal piety.
Magic and Religion in ancient
Egypt. Part I: The Roots
This longer
work (91 pages) deals
with the fundamental differences in perspective between ourselves and
the ancient Egyptians - differences that we have to address, if we ever
want to understand the Egyptians. It begins with a list of apparent
inconsistencies in the Egyptian culture, and then ventures to examine
their background.
(in PDF-format, 2005).
Magic and Religion in ancient
Egypt. Part
II: 81 gods
Part II of the series
"Magic and Religion in Ancient Egypt"
is
to be a cycle of descriptions of 81 gods, mostly
in alphabetical order. It will
be
published in nine groups of nine gods each
(nine "Enneads"). It is meant as an
introduction to the most important gods of ancient Egypt, but also as an
illustration of the principles of god-forming that were once operative
in Egypt, and that have been laid out in detail in
Part I.
Two Previews to the first Ennead are
now available:
First Preview: Aah and Aker
The file (in PDF-format) has
19 pages.
Second Preview:
Amentet, Andjety and Anubis
This file (also in PDF-format) has 70 pages.
The One and the Many: one book,
many misunderstandings
A short note about how a rightfully
famous book about Egyptian religion can be misinterpreted and misused.
(1 page).
Gods in the DZA
The
DZA ( Das
digitalisierte Zettelarchiv)
holds tens of thousands
of "Zettel" (slips, or notes) with hand-written examples of the use of
ancient Egyptian words. Among these is also a series,
devoted to the occurences of the names of gods, such as
quotes from the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts,
Book of the Dead, and many inscriptions from temples and tombs. This
material has not yet been made accessible in a structured way, but
for those with enough patience, it is still worthwile to browse around in.
To facilitate this, I have listed
for this particular corpus the first slip-number
per god.
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