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26.HEALING THE CRIMINAL HEART. Introduction to Maat Philosophy,
Yoga and Spiritual Redemption Through the Path of Virtue Who is a
criminal? Is there such a thing as a criminal heart? What is the
source of evil and sinfulness and is there any way to rise above
it? Is there redemption for those who have committed sins, even the
worst crimes? Ancient Egyptian mystical psychology holds important
answers to these questions. Over ten thousand years ago mystical
psychologists, the Sages of Ancient Egypt, studied and charted the
human mind and spirit and laid out a path which will lead to
spiritual redemption, prosperity and Enlightenment. This
introductory volume brings forth the teachings of the Asarian
Resurrection, the most important myth of Ancient Egypt, with
relation to the faults of human existence: anger, hatred, greed,
lust, animosity, discontent, ignorance, egoism jealousy,
bitterness, and a myriad of psycho-spiritual ailments which keep a
human being in a state of negativity and adversity
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Contents: nature of gods; nature of man; future life; animal
worship; groups of gods, animal-headed gods; human gods; cosmic
gods; abstract gods; foreign gods; cosmogony; ritual and
priesthood; sacred books; private worship; Egyptian ethics;
influence of Egypt.
Introduction; The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep; The Instruction of
Ke'Gemni; Note to appendix; The Instruction of Amenemheet;
Explanation of Names; Bibliography.
A Study of the Temple-Worship and Mythology of the Ancient
Egyptians; Contents: The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn; First
Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy; Astronomical Basis of the Egyptian
Pantheon; Two Horizons; Yearly Path of the sun-God; Probable
Hor-Shesu Worship; Methods of Determining the Orientation of
Temples; Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt; Other Similar Shrines
Elsewhere; Solar Temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak; Age of the Temple of
Amen-Ra at Karnak; Stars-Their Risings and Settings; Egyptian
Heavens-Zodiacs of Denderah; Circumpolar Constellations: The Myth
of Horus; Temples Directed to the Stars; Further Inquiries with
Regard to the Stellar Temples; Building Inscriptions; Star Temples
at Karnak; Personification of Stars-Temple of Isis at Denderah;
Temple of Hathor at Denderah; Star-Cults; Egyptian Year and the
Nile; Years of 360 and 365 Days; Vague and the Sirian Years; Sothic
Cycle and the Use made of it; Calendar and its Revision; Fixed Year
and Festival Calendars; Mythology of Isis and Osiris; Temple-Stars;
History of Sun-Worship at Annu and Thebes; Early Temple and Great
Pyramid Builders; Cult of Northern as Opposed to Southern Stars;
Origin of Egyptian Astronomy-Northern Schools; General Conclusions
as to the North and South Races; Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic
Constellations; Influence of Egypt Upon Temple-Orientation in
Greece.
With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom. "When
Christians shall at length acknowledge that many of those
doctrines, which together now make up orthodoxy, or the religion of
the majority, as distinguished from the simple religion which Jesus
taught and practised; when they shall acknowledge that many of them
are so many sad and lamentable errors; then, and not till then,
will they seek to know their origin, and enquire from which of the
several branches of Paganism they sprung. They will then see that
most of the so-called Christian doctrines, that have no place in
the New Testament, reached Europe from Egypt, through Alexandria."
Contents: Religion of Upper Egypt; Religion of Lower Egypt;
Religion Under the Persian Conquerors; Religion Under the
Ptolemies; Religion Under the Romans; Christianity Under the Roman
Emperors; Christianity Under the Byzantine Emperors.
The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is
a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All
hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural
imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts.
Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related,
ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images.
This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and
art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records
and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic
perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric
Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of
first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers
the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of
colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of
techniques used to record different phases of writing in different
media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques
allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and
palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the
aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach
those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the
records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy
being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two
dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental,
an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's
defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a
range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques
of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading
and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and
instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific
conundrum.
James H. Breasted (1865-1935) was the foremost influence in
introducing Americans to the culture of ancient Egypt. He founded
the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and was the
author of History of Egypt and Ancient Times: A History of the
Early World, among other works.
This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar
materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite
culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the
natural environment.The opening chapter sets out the conceptual
ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively
ephemeral activities under investigation were centrally important
to the actors. The first and largest study treats human
organization of the landscape and its use to create and transmit
elite meanings, especially through pictorial and encyclopaedic
forms, and to mobilize emotional values. Next, a treatment of the
planning of primarily third millennium settlements on the
floodplain argues that Egypt offers a partly rural perspective that
provides an alternative to the urban focus of many early
civilizations but has parallels in elite culture in much of the
world. The third study discusses how a single year's events were
orchestrated to culminate in a celebratory hunt in which the king,
his court, and high officials participated. The concluding chapter
presents an initial synthesis of Egyptian treatments of elite
experience, drawing in particular upon additional evidence from
literary texts and attitudes to travel.
In attempting even a brief and imperfect outline of the history of
Egyptian queens the author has undertaken no easy task and craves
indulgence for its modest fulfillment. The aim has been merely to
put the little that is known in a readable and popular form, to
gather from many sources the fragments that remain, partly
historic, partly legendary, of a dead past. To present -- however
imperfectl -- sketches of the women who once lived and breathed as
Queens of Egypt.
This volume provides a catalogue of the ancient Egyptian imports
and Egyptianising artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of
a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece. The cave
was a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess
Eileithyia, the little known goddess of childbirth and motherhood
whose offerings depict pregnant women, women in labour, and couples
embracing, among other motifs. The Aegyptiaca of the Minoan and
Mycenaean eras on Crete signify the political and economic
relations between the Aegean rulers and the Egyptian royal court.
Several of the objects are Egyptian scarabs, which certainly
represent official Egyptian-Cretan affairs, especially those dating
from the reign of Amenophis III to the end of the eighteenth
Dynasty. Many of the objects catalogued come from the 10th to 7th
centuries BC, linked to veneration of the goddess of childbirth and
motherhood. The volume is illustrated with colour photographs
depicting statuettes, seals, and vessels found at the site.
This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex
fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the
period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when
it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E.
Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing
native piety--from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and
terracotta figurines--and drawing on anthropological studies of
folk religion, David Frankfurter argues that the religion of
Pharonic Egypt did not die out as early as has been supposed but
was instead relegated from political centers to village and home,
where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries.
In analyzing the fate of the Egyptian oracle and of the
priesthoods, the function of magical texts, and the dynamics of
domestic cults, Frankfurter describes how an ancient culture
maintained itself while also being transformed through influences
such as Hellenism, Roman government, and Christian dominance.
Recognizing the special characteristics of Egypt, which
differentiated it from the other Mediterranean cultures that were
undergoing simultaneous social and political changes, he departs
from the traditional "decline of paganism/triumph of Christianity"
model most often used to describe the Roman period. By revealing
late Egyptian religion in its Egyptian historical context, he moves
us away from scenarios of Christian triumph and shows us how long
and how energetically pagan worship survived.
Volume 2 of the work providing thorough coverage of numerous gods of ancient Egypt by foremost Egyptologist. Information on evolution of cults, rites and gods; the cult of Osiris; the Book of the Dead and its rites; the sacred animals and birds; Heaven and Hell; and more.
The emergence of the cult of Osiris is, in most cases, dated to the
end of the 5th dynasty, the period in which the name of Osiris
appears in writing, and it is commonly held that before this period
not a trace of the cult can be discerned. This study is intended to
investigate whether this emergence was really so sudden, or if
there is evidence to suggest this appearance was preceded by a
period of development of the theology and mythology of the cult.
One of the most important aspects of the mythology of the cult is
the rebirth of Osiris. In the theology of the cult this rebirth was
projected on mortal men, and led to the postulation that every
human being, whether royal or non-royal, had the possibility to
attain eternal life after death. What made this cult even more
attractive is that this eternal life was not confined to the tomb,
as it used to be for non-royalty. The study is concerned with the
rebirth possibilities of non-royal persons and aims to determine
the chronological development of the rebirth connotations of the
various decoration themes that were used in the chapel of Old
Kingdom tombs. The decoration themes that are the subject of the
determinations are the group of bed-scenes consisting of the
bed-making scene and the marital bed-scene, the development in form
and length of the bread loaves on the offering table, the different
aspects of the scenes in which the "lotus" flower is depicted, and
the marsh scenes.
The Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid,
powerful and inescapable, that controlling one's destiny within it
was a constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces
manifested themselves through misfortune and illness, and after
death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld along with the
divine gods that controlled the universe. The Book of the Dead
empowered the reader to overcome the dangers lurking in the
Otherworld and to become one with the gods that governed. Barry
Kemp selects a number of spells to explore who and what the
Egyptians feared and the kind of assistance that the Book offered
them, revealing a relationship between the human individual and the
divine quite unlike that found in the major faiths of the modern
world.
Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess
Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient
Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great? How are we
limited by the established methodological apparatus of
historiography and which innovative methods from other disciplines
can overcome these limits? In this book, Tomas Glomb shows that
while the interplay of different factors such as the economy,
climate, and politics created favorable conditions for the early
spread of the Isiac cults, the use of innovative quantitative
methods can shed new light and help disentangle the complex
interplay of individual factors. Using a combination of geospatial
modeling, mathematical modeling, and network analysis, Glomb
determines that, at least in the regions of the Hellenistic Aegean
and western Asia Minor, the political channels created by the
Ptolemaic dynasty were a dominant force in the local spread of the
Isiac cults. An important contribution to the historiography of the
ancient Mediterranean, this book answers the specific question of
"how it happened" as well as, "how can we answer it beyond the
limits of the established methodological apparatus in
historiography."
This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction
and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in
Greek which derives from that area of southern (Upper) Egypt known
as the Apollonopolite (or Edfu) nome and is now preserved in
Copenhagen. Dating from the late second century BC, this survey
provides a new picture of both landholding and taxation in the area
which differs significantly from that currently accepted. The
introduction sets this new evidence in its contemporary context,
drawing particular attention to what it reveals about the nature of
the relations of the Ptolemaic royal administration with local
grandees, Egyptian temples and the army. No student of Hellenistic
Egypt can afford to ignore this text, which importantly extends our
knowledge of Upper Egypt under the Ptolemaic kings and involves
some modification to the prevailing picture of landholding in
Hellenistic Egypt.
In this book, Lisa Sabbahy presents a history of ancient Egyptian
kingship in the Old Kingdom and its re-formation in the early
Middle Kingdom. Beginning with an account of Egypt's history before
the Old Kingdom, she examines the basis of kingship and its
legitimacy. The heart of her study is an exploration of the king's
constant emphasis on his relationship to his divine parents, the
sun god Ra and his mother, the goddess Hathor, who were two of the
most important deities backing the rule of a divine king. Sabbahy
focuses on the cardinal importance of this relationship, which is
reflected in the king's monuments, particularly his pyramid
complexes, several of which are analysed in detail. Sabbahy also
offers new insights into the role of queens in the early history of
Egypt, notably sibling royal marriages, harem conspiracies, and the
possible connotations of royal female titles.
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