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Title
The Religion of Ancient Egypt
Author
Peter le Page Renouf
Year
1880
Publisher
Williams and Norgate
Location
London
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LECTURE I.
The Sources of Information respecting the Ancient Egyptian Religion.
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Early Christians on the Egyptian worship
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Heathen writers on the same subject
2
How far can such evidence be relied upon
4
Modern attempts at investigation
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Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing
11
Dr. Young
12
Champollion
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His successors
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Recovery of the ancient language
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Publication of Egyptian texts
22
Most of the texts are of a religious nature
26
LECTURE II.
Antiquity and Characteristics of Egyptian Civilization.
Egyptian chronology depends upon monuments recording contemporary facts
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Monuments mentioning the year of a reign
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Monuments furnishing evidence of a succession of reigns
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Royal lists and their verification by the monuments
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Royal list of Abydos
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Evidence of the reality of sovereigns named
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Omissions of this list
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Genealogies
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Manetho
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Absolute dates
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Egyptian monarchy anterior to 3000 B.C.
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Pre-historic antiquity of human race in Egypt
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Egyptian ethnology
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Language
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Art
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Moral code
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Castes
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Monogamy
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LECTURE III.
The Gods of Egypt.
Identity of the religious institutions from first to last
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Temples
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Triads and enneads
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Local character of Egyptian worship
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The deities innumerable
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Mean notions concerning these deities
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Simplification of the list
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Is the religion really monotheistic?
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Evidences as to the meaning of the word Nutar
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The Power
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The Powers
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Myth and legend
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Rā and his family
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Osiris and his family
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Horus
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Set
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Thoth
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The reign of Law
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LECTURE IV.
Communion with the Unseen World.
Sepulchral rites
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The tombs and their inscriptions
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The ka or genius
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Souls, shadows, apparitions
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Possession
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Dreams
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Oaths
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Angels
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Destiny
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The king's divinity
161
LECTURE V.
The Religious Books of Egypt.
The Book of the Dead
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Beatification of the dead
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The renewed existence "as upon earth"
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Transformation
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Identification with Osiris and other gods
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Amulets
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Words of power
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Moral doctrine
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Other sacred books
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LECTURE VI.
Religious Books and Hymns: Henotheism, Pantheism and Materialism.
Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys
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Book of glorifying Osiris
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Book of the Breaths of Life
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Rhind papyri
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Magical literature
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True notion of God
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Henotheism
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Pantheism
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Materialism
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Influence of Egyptian upon foreign thought
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Conclusion
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POTM November 2015
