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The Gods of Egypt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traunecker, Claude.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ancient Egyptian religion.
- Mythology, Egyptian.
- Egypt--Religion--332 B.C.-640 A.D.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Civilization--332 B.C.-638 A.D.
- Local Subjects:
- Ancient Egyptian religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable.
- Contents:
- Translator’s Note
- Introduction
- 1. The Sources and the State of Our Knowledge
- The Sources
- History of Scholarship
- Basic Concepts
- 2. The World of the Ancient Egyptians
- Geographic and Social Reality
- Humankind
- 3. The Gods and Their Universe
- The Appearance of the Gods
- The Nature of the Divine
- Divine Space and Time
- Divine Language and Subsistence
- 4. The Appearance of the Gods
- Forms and Transformations
- Divine Bodies
- Attitudes and Attributes
- 5. Divine Society
- The Family Model
- Divine Groups
- Hierarchy and Recruitment of Deities
- 6. Divine Functions
- Agents of Creation
- Cosmogonic Procedures
- The Organization of the Universe
- Special Functions
- 7. The Gods and the Human Realm
- Means of Communication
- Divine Presence on Earth Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-8452-8
- OCLC:
- 1532410678
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