LEADER 02469nam 2200409 450 001 9910813117303321 005 20200904114325.0 010 $a1-78969-199-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000008952914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5845602 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008952914 100 $a20190923h20192019 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe ancient Egyptian book of the moon $ecoffin texts spells 154-160 /$fGyula Priskin 210 1$aOxford :$cArchaeopress Publishing Limited,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (261 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aArchaeopress egyptology ;$v22 311 $a1-78969-198-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $a"The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at around the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, for that matter, in the entire world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month. It is argued that through a wide variety of mythological allusions, the separate texts--following an introduction which explains the origins of the month (spell 154)--describe the successive stages of the monthly cycle: the period of invisibility (spell 155), waxing (spell 156), events around the full moon (spell 157), waning (spell 158), the arrival of the last crescent at the eastern horizon (spell 159), and again the conjunction of the sun and the moon when a solar eclipse occurs (spell 160). After highlighting the possible lunar connotations of each spell, further chapters in the book investigate the origins of the composition, its different manuscripts preserved on coffins coming from Hermopolis and Asyut, and the survival of the spells in the later mortuary collection known as the Book of Going Forth by Day."--$cBack cover. 410 0$aArchaeopress Egyptology ;$v22. 607 $aEgypt$xHistory$y30 B.C.-640 A.D 608 $aEarly works.$2fast 676 $a493.1 700 $aPriskin$b Gyula$01714906 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813117303321 996 $aThe ancient Egyptian book of the moon$94109097 997 $aUNINA