LEADER 05557nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910460215703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5804-8 010 $a0-8014-5928-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459283 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081043 035 $a(OCoLC)726824213 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929893 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10445299 035 $a(PQKB)10614210 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137956 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28927 035 $a(DE-B1597)503520 035 $a(OCoLC)1076408651 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457577 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081043 100 $a20091021d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sungod's journey through the netherworld$b[electronic resource] $ereading the ancient Egyptian Amduat /$fAndreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung 210 $aIthaca, NY $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aTranslated from the German. 311 $a0-8014-4875-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword To The German Edition / $rHornung, Erik -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tEditor's Note -- $tImmersion Into Darkness -- $tThe Amduat-The Book Of The Hidden Chamber -- $tThe Title Of The Amduat -- $tFirst Hour: The Jubilation Of The Baboons -- $tSecond Hour: The Fertile Region Of Wernes -- $tThird Hour: Rowing On The Water Of Osiris -- $tFourth Hour: The Snake-Land Of Sokar -- $tFifth Hour: The Mystery Of The Cavern Of Sokar -- $tSixth Hour: The Corpse Of The Sungod And The Rebirth Of Light -- $tSeventh Hour: Apopis, Enemy Of The Sun -- $tEighth Hour: Provision With Clothes -- $tNinth Hour: The Sungod's Crew -- $tTenth Hour: The Bodyguard Of The Sungod -- $tEleventh Hour: The Renewal Of Time -- $tTwelfth Hour: The End Of The Primeval Darkness -- $tClosure: The Five Stages Of Renewal -- $tChronology -- $tGlossary -- $tBibliography -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $a"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations and texts of the Amduat, threats hidden in the depths of our soul become visible as concrete images, an analysis of which remains ever worthwhile: even in the guise of the evil, ominous, or dark side of godhead with which Schweizer concerns himself. The netherworld into which we descend underlies our own world. Creative energies of dreadful intensity are active there, and only death, to which all must surrender, makes us truly alive by offering us regeneration from the depths."-Erik Hornung, from the ForewordThe Amduat (literally "that which is in the netherworld") tells the story of the nocturnal journey of Re, the Egyptian Sungod, through the netherworld from the time when the sun dies, after setting in the west, to its rebirth at sunrise in the east. In the middle of the night, in the profoundest depths of the netherworld, this resurrection is made possible by a mystical union of the sun with the mummified body of Osiris, god of the dead. This great mystery of the union between the freely moving soul of the Sungod, longing for the bright and boundless sky, with Osiris's corpse, which is irrevocably bound to the subterranean realm of the dead, evokes the renewal of all life and the restoration of totality.In the Egyptian belief system, the pharaohs and in later times all blessed dead embarked on this same "night-sea journey" after death, ultimately becoming one with Re and living forever. The vision of the afterlife elaborated in the Amduat, dating from around 1500 B.C.E., has been influential for millennia, providing the model for an entire genre of Egyptian literature, the Books of the Afterlife, which in turn endured into the Greco-Roman era. Its themes and images persisted into gnostic and alchemical texts and made their way into early Christian portrayals of the beyond.In The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld, Andreas Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of its principal textual and iconographic elements. He is concerned with themes that run deep and wide in human experience, drawing on Jungian archetypes to find similar expression in many cultures worldwide: sleep as death; resurrection as reawakening or rebirth; and salvation or redemption, whether from original sin (as for Christians) or from the total annihilation of death (as for the ancient Egyptians). 606 $aEschatology, Egyptian 606 $aVoyages to the otherworld 607 $aEgypt$xReligion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEschatology, Egyptian. 615 0$aVoyages to the otherworld. 676 $a299/.31 700 $aSchweizer$b Andreas$f1946-$01031240 701 $aLorton$b David$f1945-$01031241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460215703321 996 $aThe sungod's journey through the netherworld$92448517 997 $aUNINA