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The Enigmatic Dr. Musès
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Arthur Versluis
Published: 10 October 2023
... ancient Egyptian religion multiple worlds multiple dimensions afterlife syncretism Over the years, I have published a number of books that broke new ground because what interests me is exploration. I am drawn to topics that call for investigation, and sometimes mapping, as they represent relatively...
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Published: 20 September 2018
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Kushites in Egypt, 664 BCE–14 CE: Egypt and Kush in the Borderlands of Lower Nubia
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Kathryn Howley
Published: 13 January 2021
... religious interaction Egyptian religion After almost a century of Kushite rule over, and presence in, Egypt, the retreat of King Tanwetamani to Kush in the face of the invading Assyrian armies of Ashurbanipal brought a close to the 25th Dynasty. So ended the presence of Kushite kings...
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The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Rita Lucarelli (ed.) and Martin Andreas Stadler (ed.)
Published online: 20 June 2023
Published in print: 01 August 2023
... and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. This handbook is the first guide to all the aspects and topics of research in relation both to the Book of the Dead itself and to broader research on ancient Egyptian religion and magic....
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Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt
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Ann-Katrin Gill and Mark Smith
Published online: 24 October 2024
Published in print: 05 September 2024
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Introduction
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Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler
Published: 20 June 2023
...’ individual approach to the corpus is also outlined and contextualized within the wider field of study of the ancient Egyptian religion, of which the Book of the Dead is a major source of knowledge and understanding. P Paris BnF P Rylands Hieroglyphic Manuscript P Qenna P Leiden T P Insinger Dra Abu el...
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Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri
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Willy Clarysse
Published: 18 September 2012
..., as synnaoi theoi . Drawing from E. Chassinat, Le temple dʼEdfou , vol. 1, 527, pl. XXXVIa, Paris (1897) . Figure 24.10. Soknebtynis-Kronos (with a small crocodile on his lap) and ithyphallic Min in Tebtynis. From Egyptian Religion, the Last Thousand Years: Studies ...
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Isis, Osiris, and Serapis
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Martin Bommas
Published: 21 November 2012
... at Philippi Red Hall at Pergamon Rome Actium battle of 31 bce Cestius Gaius and festivals for Egyptian cults Egyptian religion cult of Isis Plutarch Hellenistic Isis Roman Egypt Isis cults myth of Osiris It was not until Greek settlers appeared in Egypt that certain aspects of Egyptian...
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Published: 06 March 2007
... and sanctuary at Philae onomastics Sarapis machimoi Roman Egypt differences from Ptolemaic Egyptian religion temples intermarriage bilingualism epigraphy This chapter originates in an impulse from the general assembly of the International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities (ICPH), 1...
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The Egypt of The Mummy
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Doris V. Sutherland
Published: 10 September 2019
... touches upon ancient Egyptian religion. Finally, there is the phenomenon that originally prompted Universal Pictures to head to Egypt for inspiration: the cursed tomb. The Mummy ancient Egypt twentieth-century Egypt Tutankhamun Egyptian religion cursed tomb The Mummy is a film...
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Published: 27 November 2020
... Moreland J P Plantinga Cornelius Jr polytheism social trinitarianism Swinburne Richard Trinity doctrine of Amun Re theology creation myths Egyptian religion Thebes Heliopolitan cosmogony Hermopolitan cosmogony Khonsu Cosmogony Memphite cosmogony Baines John Bonnet Hans Hornung Erik Morenz...
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Published: 28 January 2021
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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice
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Jennifer Wright Knust (ed.) and Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (ed.)
Published online: 19 January 2012
Published in print: 14 October 2011
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Gods, mythology, and cosmology
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Susanne Bickel
Published: 15 December 2020
.... This article sketches the history of study of Egyptian religion, and summarizes definitions and forms of characterizations of deities, as well as the main mythological complexes within which the gods were set in interaction. It also addresses cosmology was a crucial issue of religious thinking and world...
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Ritual and Worship in Ancient Egypt
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Emily Teeter
Published: 08 October 2020
...There was no set doctrine in Egyptian religion and no overall canonical tradition. The goals of worship in ancient Egypt were the preservation of the cosmic order and the perpetuation of life through rituals that combated the forces of non-existence. The gods were represented on earth by statues...
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The Land and its People
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Aidan Dodson
Published: 27 January 2016
... scribe sesh Egyptian society agriculture ancient Egyptian religion the Nile ancient Egyptians ancient Egyptian government The modern Arab Republic of Egypt occupies 992,000 square kilometers of the northeast corner of the African continent, together with Asia’s Sinai peninsula; however, only a tiny...
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17 ‘Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown’ Gerald Massey and Late‐Victorian Afrocentrism
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Brian H. Murray
Published: 01 October 2011
...In A Book of Beginnings (1881) the English poet and radical Gerald Massey (1828‐1907) combined the findings of evolutionary biology with his own comparative study of language and myth to argue that Egyptian religion and mythology were the roots of European civilisation. Massey's...
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Religious Practice and Piety
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David Frankfurter
Published: 21 November 2012
...Traditional Egyptian religion involved much more than temples, priests, and processions. The rhythms of agriculture, the experience of the landscape, and the perpetuation and fortune of family and village all involved ritual interactions with diverse gods and spirits: in the home, in local shrines...
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Egyptian Cult: Evidence from Temple Scriptoria and Christian Hagiographies
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Martin Andreas Stadler
Published: 21 November 2012
... temple Mongos Petros Narmouthis Medinet Madi Severus Septimus Emperor Christianity and ending of worship of Egyptian religion Roman rule magic temple cult written tradition Everything could have turned out so well! The Persian kings and the Ptolemies had placed themselves...
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Published: 28 January 2021
...2021 ‘Religion’ studies ancient Egyptian religion, the history of which was at one stage concerned principally with the beliefs and temples of the pharaonic period. Now it has become increasingly clear that there is a significant prehistory of Egyptian religion. If the provision of offerings...
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