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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Hardcover)
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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods (Hardcover)
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This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume
originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of
wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as
if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of
ethnologists or sociologists. The book begins with the discussion
of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors
describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the
conflicts that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to
protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and
struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their
immortal but not vulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their
needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did
they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar
traditions and littleknown texts to explain the relationship of the
gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth.
By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate
equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld
of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was
autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate
spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course
and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the
universe.
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