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Title The Religion of Ancient Egypt
Author Peter le Page Renouf
Year 1880
Publisher Williams and Norgate
Location London
Source djvu
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
LECTURE I.

The Sources of Information respecting the Ancient Egyptian Religion.
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Early Christians on the Egyptian worship
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1
Heathen writers on the same subject
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2
How far can such evidence be relied upon
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4
Modern attempts at investigation
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9
Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing
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11
Dr. Young
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12
Champollion
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14
His successors
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19
Recovery of the ancient language
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20
Publication of Egyptian texts
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22
Most of the texts are of a religious nature
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26
 
LECTURE II.

Antiquity and Characteristics of Egyptian Civilization.
Egyptian chronology depends upon monuments recording contemporary facts
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32
Monuments mentioning the year of a reign
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33
Monuments furnishing evidence of a succession of reigns
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34
Royal lists and their verification by the monuments
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37
Royal list of Abydos
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38
Evidence of the reality of sovereigns named
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39
Omissions of this list
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41
Genealogies
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46
Manetho
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47
Absolute dates
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48
Egyptian monarchy anterior to 3000 B.C.
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49
Pre-historic antiquity of human race in Egypt
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50
Egyptian ethnology
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53
Language
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55
Art
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61
Moral code
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71
Castes
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78
Monogamy
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79
 
LECTURE III.

The Gods of Egypt.
Identity of the religious institutions from first to last
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80
Temples
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82
Triads and enneads
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83
Local character of Egyptian worship
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83
The deities innumerable
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85
Mean notions concerning these deities
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87
Simplification of the list
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87
Is the religion really monotheistic?
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89
Evidences as to the meaning of the word Nutar
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93
The Power
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100
The Powers
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103
Myth and legend
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104
Rā and his family
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109
Osiris and his family
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110
Horus
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113
Set
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116
Thoth
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116
The reign of Law
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119
 
LECTURE IV.

Communion with the Unseen World.
Sepulchral rites
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124
The tombs and their inscriptions
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127
The ka or genius
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147
Souls, shadows, apparitions
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152
Possession
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154
Dreams
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155
Oaths
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157
Angels
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158
Destiny
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159
The king's divinity
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161
 
LECTURE V.

The Religious Books of Egypt.
The Book of the Dead
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172
Beatification of the dead
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179
The renewed existence "as upon earth"
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180
Transformation
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181
Identification with Osiris and other gods
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184
Amulets
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191
Words of power
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192
Moral doctrine
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194
Other sacred books
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200
 
LECTURE VI.

Religious Books and Hymns: Henotheism, Pantheism and Materialism.
Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys
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204
Book of glorifying Osiris
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205
Book of the Breaths of Life
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207
Rhind papyri
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209
Magical literature
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210
True notion of God
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215
Henotheism
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217
Pantheism
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230
Materialism
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239
Influence of Egyptian upon foreign thought
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243
Conclusion
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249
POTM November 2015
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