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The gods of the Egyptians : or studies in Egyptian mythology / E.A. Wallis Budge.

By: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Dover, 1969Description: 1 v. : ill. (part folded, colored) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0486220559.Subject(s): Mythology, EgyptianDDC classification: 704.947
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Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom, inventor of the art of writing; Osiris, the dead god who arose and set the pattern for death-and-resurrection gods ever since; Isis, the great mother, wandering through the reed swamps; Anubis, conductor of the dead, with jackal head; Bast, the cat goddess; Set, the evil serpent; Ptah, the living mummy ... For more than 2,500 years, since the days of Herodotus, students have found the gods of Ancient Egypt a source of fascination and wonder. Strange beings who lived in a world of their own (as opposed to the human gods of the European people), irrational powers and menaces, sometimes animal-like, sometimes superhuman, sometimes incalculable in their evil potentialities, they still have the power to move men's thought.
By far the most thorough, most useful coverage of the gods of Ancient Egypt is this book by Dr. Budge of the British Museum, one of the foremost Egyptologists of the century. In it is presented practically everything known about the high gods, the local gods, demigods, demons, and mythological figures of Khem. Dr. Budge provides full information on the origins of the ancient religion; its peculiarly Egyptian aspects; evolution of cults, rites, and gods; the priesthoods; the heretical aberration of Ikhnaten and the Aten cult; the cult of Osiris; the Book of the Dead and its rites; the sacred animals and birds; heaven and hell, and much other secret wisdom that has been discovered hidden in mummy cases or written on tomb walls. The text is profusely illustrated, with many reproductions of tomb and mummy-case paintings, while many full texts are presented, with both hieroglyphs and translation.
Dr. Budge's book is a standard work in the history of religion. It is also a most useful background book for anyone seriously interested in the life and thought of Ancient Egypt, an explicator of many of the obscurer passages in the Book of Dead.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • I The Gods of Egypt
  • "Appendix: Unás, the Slayer and Eater of the Gods-Hieroglyphic Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation"
  • II "Conception of God and the "Gods"
  • III Primitive Gods and Nome-Gods
  • IV The Companions of the Gods in Heaven
  • V The Underworld
  • VI Hell and the Damned
  • VII The Oldest Company of the Gods and the Creation
  • VIII History of the Creation of the Gods and of the World-Hieroglyphic Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation
  • IX "Ra, the Sun-God, and His Forms"
  • X The Myths of Ra
  • XI The Legend of Ra and Isis-Hieroglyphic Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation
  • XII The Destruction of Mankind-Hieroglyphic Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation
  • XIII "Thoth, and Maat and the Other Goddesses Who Were Associated With Him"
  • XIV Hathor and the Hathor-Goddesses
  • XV The Horus Gods
  • XVI "The Great Triad of Memphis, Ptah, Sekhet, and I-Em-Hetep"

Author notes provided by Syndetics

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan.

Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920.

E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.

(Bowker Author Biography)