The Egyptian myths : a guide to the ancient gods and legends / / Garry J. Shaw |
Autore | Shaw Garry J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 299.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Gods, Egyptian
Mythology, Egyptian |
ISBN | 0-500-77200-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part 1. Disorder and creation -- The reigns of Kings Re, Shu and Geb -- The reign of King Osiris -- The reign of King Seth and the triumph of Horus -- Part 2. The mythic environment -- Dealing with the invisible in daily life -- Part 3. The trials of the Duat (a guide) -- Your judgment and life as an Akh -- Epilogue : the myth of ancient Egypt. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793897403321 |
Shaw Garry J. | ||
London ; ; New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Egyptian myths : a guide to the ancient gods and legends / / Garry J. Shaw |
Autore | Shaw Garry J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 299.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Gods, Egyptian
Mythology, Egyptian |
ISBN | 0-500-77200-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part 1. Disorder and creation -- The reigns of Kings Re, Shu and Geb -- The reign of King Osiris -- The reign of King Seth and the triumph of Horus -- Part 2. The mythic environment -- Dealing with the invisible in daily life -- Part 3. The trials of the Duat (a guide) -- Your judgment and life as an Akh -- Epilogue : the myth of ancient Egypt. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814621203321 |
Shaw Garry J. | ||
London ; ; New York, New York : , : Thames & Hudson, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egyptian religion / / Siegfried Morenz |
Autore | Morenz Siegfried. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 396 |
Collana | Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Social and cultural anthropology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-54256-6
1-138-87871-5 1-315-01772-5 1-136-54249-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Sources; Meaning of religion in Egyptian; 1. THE RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION; Art; Literature and drama; Science; Philology and philosophy; Historiography; Government; Justice; Religion as matrix of culture; 2. THE GODS; Power; Conception of the gods; Form of the gods: personification; Names of the gods; Creation of the gods; Negative relationship between gods and man; Local deities; Cosmic deities; Revelation
Sacrosanct monarchyKing's two bodies; The king as intermediary with the gods; 3. THE WORSHIPPERS; The Egyptocentric outlook: the country; The Egyptocentric outlook: the inhabitants; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence within the country; 4. DIVINE COMMANDMENTS, GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODS; The problem of free will; Theodicy; Divine commandments; Divine guidance; Divine inspiration; Fate; Foreknowledge; prophecy; Terminology for 'fate'; God as lord of fate; Egyptian view of time; 5. CULT AND PIETY: THE CONDUCT OF MEN Relationship between cult and mythCult in dynastic times; The Egyptian temple; Daily service for the image; Festivals; Professions of belief; hymns; Divine service as expression of a juridical relationship between God and man; Sanctity; Priesthood; Personal piety; oracles; Amon's role in personal piety; Images; Coexistence of official cult and personal piety; 6. ETHICS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION; Religious foundations of conduct; Sources; What is maat ?; Relative explicitness of maat; Means of becoming cognizant of maat; Cognizance of maat based on insight and experience Maat as measure of judgement upon menThe judgement of the dead; Consciousness of sin; Substance of Egyptian ethics; Ethics and religion; 7. EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY; Nature of Egyptian theology; Local deities; 'syncretism'; Unity in plurality; Egyptian trinities; Doctrine of Amenophis IV; Origins of monotheism; Relationship between deity and image; Initial assumption of identity between image and object; Ritual performed to vitalize the image; Concept of ba; 8. EGYPTIAN COSMOGONIES AND DOCTRINES OF EVOLUTION; Creation; The creator-god as craftsman; God as procreator; Creation through God's word Time of the creation 'the first time'; Material of creation; Mythology of creation and scientific thought; Origin of life from an egg; Origin of life from a lotus; Relationship between doctrines of creation and evolution; 9. DEATH AND THE DEAD; Creation of man; God as lord of death; Death part of cosmic order; Egyptian attitude to death; The act of dying; Egyptians' lifelong consciousness of death; Creative consequences: the pyramids and Egyptian art; Burial customs; mummification; Funerary gifts and supply of provisions; Concept of heaven; Realm of the dead; Historical development Significance: overcoming death |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452647703321 |
Morenz Siegfried. | ||
Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egyptian religion / / Siegfried Morenz |
Autore | Morenz Siegfried. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 396 |
Collana | Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Social and cultural anthropology |
ISBN |
1-136-54256-6
1-138-87871-5 1-315-01772-5 1-136-54249-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Sources; Meaning of religion in Egyptian; 1. THE RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION; Art; Literature and drama; Science; Philology and philosophy; Historiography; Government; Justice; Religion as matrix of culture; 2. THE GODS; Power; Conception of the gods; Form of the gods: personification; Names of the gods; Creation of the gods; Negative relationship between gods and man; Local deities; Cosmic deities; Revelation
Sacrosanct monarchyKing's two bodies; The king as intermediary with the gods; 3. THE WORSHIPPERS; The Egyptocentric outlook: the country; The Egyptocentric outlook: the inhabitants; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence within the country; 4. DIVINE COMMANDMENTS, GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODS; The problem of free will; Theodicy; Divine commandments; Divine guidance; Divine inspiration; Fate; Foreknowledge; prophecy; Terminology for 'fate'; God as lord of fate; Egyptian view of time; 5. CULT AND PIETY: THE CONDUCT OF MEN Relationship between cult and mythCult in dynastic times; The Egyptian temple; Daily service for the image; Festivals; Professions of belief; hymns; Divine service as expression of a juridical relationship between God and man; Sanctity; Priesthood; Personal piety; oracles; Amon's role in personal piety; Images; Coexistence of official cult and personal piety; 6. ETHICS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION; Religious foundations of conduct; Sources; What is maat ?; Relative explicitness of maat; Means of becoming cognizant of maat; Cognizance of maat based on insight and experience Maat as measure of judgement upon menThe judgement of the dead; Consciousness of sin; Substance of Egyptian ethics; Ethics and religion; 7. EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY; Nature of Egyptian theology; Local deities; 'syncretism'; Unity in plurality; Egyptian trinities; Doctrine of Amenophis IV; Origins of monotheism; Relationship between deity and image; Initial assumption of identity between image and object; Ritual performed to vitalize the image; Concept of ba; 8. EGYPTIAN COSMOGONIES AND DOCTRINES OF EVOLUTION; Creation; The creator-god as craftsman; God as procreator; Creation through God's word Time of the creation 'the first time'; Material of creation; Mythology of creation and scientific thought; Origin of life from an egg; Origin of life from a lotus; Relationship between doctrines of creation and evolution; 9. DEATH AND THE DEAD; Creation of man; God as lord of death; Death part of cosmic order; Egyptian attitude to death; The act of dying; Egyptians' lifelong consciousness of death; Creative consequences: the pyramids and Egyptian art; Burial customs; mummification; Funerary gifts and supply of provisions; Concept of heaven; Realm of the dead; Historical development Significance: overcoming death |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790667803321 |
Morenz Siegfried. | ||
Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Egyptian religion / / Siegfried Morenz |
Autore | Morenz Siegfried. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 396 |
Collana | Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Social and cultural anthropology |
ISBN |
1-136-54256-6
1-138-87871-5 1-315-01772-5 1-136-54249-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Sources; Meaning of religion in Egyptian; 1. THE RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION; Art; Literature and drama; Science; Philology and philosophy; Historiography; Government; Justice; Religion as matrix of culture; 2. THE GODS; Power; Conception of the gods; Form of the gods: personification; Names of the gods; Creation of the gods; Negative relationship between gods and man; Local deities; Cosmic deities; Revelation
Sacrosanct monarchyKing's two bodies; The king as intermediary with the gods; 3. THE WORSHIPPERS; The Egyptocentric outlook: the country; The Egyptocentric outlook: the inhabitants; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence within the country; 4. DIVINE COMMANDMENTS, GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODS; The problem of free will; Theodicy; Divine commandments; Divine guidance; Divine inspiration; Fate; Foreknowledge; prophecy; Terminology for 'fate'; God as lord of fate; Egyptian view of time; 5. CULT AND PIETY: THE CONDUCT OF MEN Relationship between cult and mythCult in dynastic times; The Egyptian temple; Daily service for the image; Festivals; Professions of belief; hymns; Divine service as expression of a juridical relationship between God and man; Sanctity; Priesthood; Personal piety; oracles; Amon's role in personal piety; Images; Coexistence of official cult and personal piety; 6. ETHICS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION; Religious foundations of conduct; Sources; What is maat ?; Relative explicitness of maat; Means of becoming cognizant of maat; Cognizance of maat based on insight and experience Maat as measure of judgement upon menThe judgement of the dead; Consciousness of sin; Substance of Egyptian ethics; Ethics and religion; 7. EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY; Nature of Egyptian theology; Local deities; 'syncretism'; Unity in plurality; Egyptian trinities; Doctrine of Amenophis IV; Origins of monotheism; Relationship between deity and image; Initial assumption of identity between image and object; Ritual performed to vitalize the image; Concept of ba; 8. EGYPTIAN COSMOGONIES AND DOCTRINES OF EVOLUTION; Creation; The creator-god as craftsman; God as procreator; Creation through God's word Time of the creation 'the first time'; Material of creation; Mythology of creation and scientific thought; Origin of life from an egg; Origin of life from a lotus; Relationship between doctrines of creation and evolution; 9. DEATH AND THE DEAD; Creation of man; God as lord of death; Death part of cosmic order; Egyptian attitude to death; The act of dying; Egyptians' lifelong consciousness of death; Creative consequences: the pyramids and Egyptian art; Burial customs; mummification; Funerary gifts and supply of provisions; Concept of heaven; Realm of the dead; Historical development Significance: overcoming death |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814215203321 |
Morenz Siegfried. | ||
Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploring religion in ancient Egypt / / Stephen Quirke |
Autore | Quirke Stephen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
Disciplina | 299/.31 |
Collana | Blackwell Ancient Religions |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-61052-0
1-118-61049-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Belief without a book -- Finding the sacred in space and time -- Creating sacred space and time: temple architecture and festival -- Chaos and life: forces of creation and destruction -- Being good: doing, saying, making good possible -- Being well -- Attaining eternal life: sustenance and transformation. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459952103321 |
Quirke Stephen | ||
Chichester, West Sussex : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Following Osiris : perspectives on the Osirian afterlife from four millenia / / Mark Smith |
Autore | Smith Mark |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (666 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 299.312113 |
Soggetto topico | Future life |
ISBN |
0-19-108976-1
0-19-174745-9 0-19-108975-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164929703321 |
Smith Mark | ||
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Goden van Egypte : op zoek naar de wetten van de kosmos / / redactie, Maarten J. Raven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (172 pages) |
Disciplina | 299.31 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Egyptian
Gods, Egyptian |
ISBN | 90-8890-720-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | dut |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793124003321 |
Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Goden van Egypte : op zoek naar de wetten van de kosmos / / redactie, Maarten J. Raven |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (172 pages) |
Disciplina | 299.31 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Egyptian
Gods, Egyptian |
ISBN | 90-8890-720-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | dut |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827383803321 |
Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gods, priests and men : studies in the religion of pharaonic Egypt / / by Aylward M. Blackman ; compiled and edited with an introduction by Alan B. Lloyd |
Autore | Blackman Aylward M (Aylward Manley), <1883-1956., > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
Disciplina | 299/.31 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LloydAlan B |
Collana | Studies in Egyptology |
Soggetto topico | Mythology, Egyptian |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-03827-4
1-283-84041-3 1-136-15386-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Gods, Priests and Men; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section I: Generalities; 1. 'Purification (Egyptian)': Hastings, ERE, 10 (1918), 476-82; 2. 'Righteousness (Egyptian)': op.cit. 10 (1918), 792-800; 3. 'Salvation (Egyptian)': op.cit. 11 (1920), 131-2; 4. 'Sin (Egyptian)': op.cit. 11 (1920), 544-5; 5. 'Myth and Ritual in Ancient Egypt': S.H. Hooke (ed.), Myth and Ritual (1933), Essay II; Section II: The Cult of the Dead; 6. 'The Significance of Incense and Libations in Funerary and Temple Ritual': ZÄS 50 (1912),69-75
7. 'Libations to the Dead in Modern Nubia and Ancient Egypt': JEA 3 (1916), 31-48. 'The Ka-House and the Serdab' JEA 3 (1916), 250-4; 9. 'Some Notes on the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Washing the dead': JEA 5 (1918), 117-24; 10. 'The Rite of Opening the Mouth in Ancient Egypt and Babylonia': JEA 10 (1924), 47-59; Section III: The Temple Cult; 11. 'Priest, Priesthood (Egyptian)' : Hastings, ERE 10 (1918), 293-302; 12. 'On the Position of Women in the Ancient Egyptian Hierachy': JEA 7 (1921), 8-30; 13. 'Worship (Egyptian)': Hastings, ERE 12 (1921), 776-82 14. 'Sacramental Ideas and Usages in Ancient Egypt': PSBA March, 1918, 57-66, and May, 1918, 86-9115. 'The House of the Morning': JEA 5 (1918), 148-65; 16. 'The Sequence of the Episodes in the Egyptian Daily Temple Liturgy': JMEOS 8 (1919), 27-53; 17. 'A Study of the Liturgy celebrated in the Temple of the Aton at El-Amarna': Recueil d'études égyptologiques dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion (Ecole des hautes études. Bibliothéque: Sciences historiques et philologiques, 234) (Paris, 1922), 505-27 18. 'The Myth of Horus at Edfu-I', with H.W. Fairman: JEA 28 (1942), 32-8 (continuation of H.W. Fairman, 'The Myth of Horus at Edfu. I', JEA 21 (1935), 26-3619. 'The Myth of Horus at Edfu-II', with H.W. Fairman: JEA 29 (1943), 2-36; 20. 'The Myth of Horus at Edfu-II', with H.W. Fairman: JEA 30 (1944), 5-22; 21. 'The Consecration of an Egyptian Temple according to the Use of Edfu', with H.W. Fairman: JEA 32 (1946), 75-91; 22. 'The Significance of the Ceremony Ffwt BlJsw in the Temple of Horus at Edfu', with H.W. Fairman: JEA 35 (1949), 98-112 23. 'The Significance of the Ceremony Ffwt Bl]sw in the Temple of Horus at Edfu', with H.W. FairmanJEA 36 (1950),63-81Section IV: The King; 24. 'The Pharaoh's Placenta and the Moon-God Khons': JEA 3 (1916), 235-49; 25. 'The King of Egypt's Grace before Meat': JEA 31 (1945), 57-73; Section V: Communication Between Gods and Men; 26 'Oracles in Ancient Egypt. I. Papyrus B.M. 10335': JEA 11 (1925), 249-55; 27 'Oracles in Ancient Egypt. II': JEA 12 (1926), 176-85; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462675603321 |
Blackman Aylward M (Aylward Manley), <1883-1956., > | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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