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This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian
mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it
includes explorations of sign language in mythological
representation, totemism, fetishism, spirits and gods, the Egyptian
Book of the Dead and Egyptian wisdom in the Hebrew Genesis. Readers
will enjoy the wealth of information offered by Gerald Massey, as
well as his clear and readable style.
Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the
Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace
of civilization and that the widespread monotheistic vision of man
and the metaphysical was, in fact, based on ancient Egyptian
mythos. In The Natural Genesis, presented here in an omnibus
edition, Massey delivers a sequel, delving deeper into his
compelling polemic. In Volume I, he offers a more intellectual,
fine-tuned analysis of the development of society out of Egypt.
From the simplest signs (numbers, the cross) to the grandest
archetypes (darkness, the mother figure), Massey carefully and
confidently lays the cultural and psychosocial bricks of
evolutionism. Volume II provides detailed discourse on the Egyptian
origin of the delicate components of the monotheistic creed. With
his agile prose, Massey leads an adventurous examination of the
epistemology of astronomy, time, and Christology-and what it all
means for human culture. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907)
published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism,
and theology, but his best known works are in the realm of
Egyptology, including The Book of the Beginnings, The Natural
Genesis, and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.
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