Egyptian Mythology

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Egyptian Mythology
The gods of ancient Egypt were involved with every aspect of life, from the creation of the world to ordinary details of everyday life. As well as embracing the sun and the sky, life after death and the fertility of the Nile the gods reflect the profundity of the beliefs that covered the whole life of every Egyptian.
This book recalls these gods, their attributes and the stories about them: Hathor, the goddess of love wearing cow's horns to indicate her origins as a fertility goddess; Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom and Anubis, who guided souls to judgement. There were more human and appealing figures too - Osiris, brought down by his enemy Set; the loving and sorrowing I sis, wife of Osiris; and Horus, her divine son, whose struggle with Set is one of the great stories of the world. Veronica Ions also tells of the great pharaohs and their ministers who were made gods, and Akhenaten who rejected the gods he could not believe in and fashioned another.... Tovább

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Egyptian Mythology
The gods of ancient Egypt were involved with every aspect of life, from the creation of the world to ordinary details of everyday life. As well as embracing the sun and the sky, life after death and the fertility of the Nile the gods reflect the profundity of the beliefs that covered the whole life of every Egyptian.
This book recalls these gods, their attributes and the stories about them: Hathor, the goddess of love wearing cow's horns to indicate her origins as a fertility goddess; Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom and Anubis, who guided souls to judgement. There were more human and appealing figures too - Osiris, brought down by his enemy Set; the loving and sorrowing I sis, wife of Osiris; and Horus, her divine son, whose struggle with Set is one of the great stories of the world. Veronica Ions also tells of the great pharaohs and their ministers who were made gods, and Akhenaten who rejected the gods he could not believe in and fashioned another.
Veronica Ions was born in London, though part of her early childhood was spent in the USA, at Washington, D.C. She returned to England to complete her education, first at St Paul's Girls' School, where she was a Senior Scholar, and then at Somerville College, Oxford. She early became interested both in ancient and modern languages (in which she took her degree), and in the study of myths and legends.
After Oxford, she entered publishing, and for a number of years was mainly occupied with the preparation of the English versions of the Larousse encyclopedias. Her first book, Indian Mythology, was published in 1967, and was warmly received.
In 1970 Veronica Ions published in the Hamlyn Myths and Legends in Colour series a book of Indian legends based on historical events, illustrated by the Bengali artist Biman Mullick. This was followed in 1974 by The World's Mythology in Colour, which deals with 15 mythologies. In recent years she has been researching a book on the powerful role of the female in mythology, and the light it sheds on current controversies. Vissza