Author: Hans GoedickePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991078
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Re-used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Author: Hans GoedickePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991078
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Re-used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Author: Reused Block from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Author: Hans GoedickeThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition
Author: Hans GoedickeRe-used Bloocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Author: Hans GoedickeTexts from the Pyramid Age
Author: Nigel StrudwickPublisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1589831381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700-2170 B.C.). These royal and private inscriptions, coming from both the secular and religious milieus and from all kinds of physical contexts, not only shed light on the administration, foreign expeditions, and funerary beliefs of the period but also bring to life the Egyptians themselves, revealing how they saw the world and how they wanted the world to see them. Strudwick's helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts.
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts
Author: Jeremy NaydlerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals • Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists • Examines the similarity between the pharaoh’s afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying • Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical tradition To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom. While there are many today who still share that view, the consensus of most Egyptologists is that no evidence exists that Egypt possessed any mystical tradition whatsoever. Jeremy Naydler’s radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts--the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt--places these documents into the ritual context in which they belong. Until now, the Pyramid Texts have been viewed primarily as royal funerary texts that were used in the liturgy of the dead pharaoh or to aid him in his afterlife journey. This emphasis on funerary interpretation has served only to externalize what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king. In order to understand the character and significance of the extreme psychological states the pharaoh experienced--states often involving perilous encounters with alternate realities--we need to approach them as spiritual and religious phenomena that reveal the extraordinary possibilities of human consciousness. It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and that holds the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptian mysticism.
A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
Author: John RomerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250030137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Originally published: United Kingdom: Allen Lane, 2016.
Temples of Ancient Egypt
Author: Dieter ArnoldPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801433993
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Five distinguished scholars here summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. The first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, it offers a unique perspective on ritual and its cultural significance. The authors perceive temples as loci for the creative interplay of sacred space and sacred time. They regard as unacceptable the traditional division of the temples into the categories of "mortuary" and "divine", believing that their functions and symbolic representations were, at once, too varied and too intertwined. Both informative to scholars and accessible to students, the book combines descriptions of specific temples with new insights into their development and purposes.
The Great Pyramid Disrespected
Author: Charles N. PopePublisher: DomainOfMan.com
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Bible and Mythology have a good deal to say about the origin of the Great Pyramid and how it relates to the anthropology of hominins, including modern humans.