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 Isis, 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 Isis, 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.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S MYTHS AND LEGENDS
Myths and legends are found the world over, and their origin and purpose form a special part of the story of the development of man. Some of these myths embody man's early explanations of the world he lived in, the forces governing his life and the need to provide some account for the good and evil that befell him. Many of these forces were personified - given names and personalities - the first step to the formalisation of belief in ritual and in religion. A galaxy of gods, devils, heroes and monsters emerged, as varied as the societies from which they sprang and the appeal of their actions. Mythology has served as the foundation of man's loftiest and most abstract thought in art and religion - of Milton's Paradise Lost and the Hindu Bhagavad Gita; equally the legends of the lesser spirits have been retained in folk tales familiar to us all in fairy tales.
The Library of the World's Myths and Legends is an authoritative series on the major mythologies of the world's history. Written by a team of well-known scholars, including archaeologists, linguists and students of comparative religion, each book in the library combines an attractive recital of the myths of a culture with the world-picture that these stories reveal and the art-forms they have inspired. The text is fully illustrated with artefacts and paintings related to the myths, and, where appropriate, ethnological material showing the role of myth in everyday life.
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