Chapter I: Front Matter

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Religions Ancient and Modern

[Frontispiece: EGYPTIAN GODS. PETRIE COLLECTION]

THE RELIGION OF

ANCIENT EGYPT

By

W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE

D.C.L., LL.D., LIT.D., PH.D., T.R.S., F.B.A., F.S.A. SCOT.
EDWARDS PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

LONDON

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD

16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET

1906

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE NATURE OF GODS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE NATURE OF MAN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
III. THE FUTURE LIFE, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
IV. ANIMAL WORSHIP, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
V. THE GROUPS OF GODS. ANIMAL-HEADED GODS, . . . . . 28
VI. THE HUMAN GODS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
VII. THE COSMIC GODS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
VIII. THE ABSTRACT GODS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
IX. THE FOREIGN GODS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
X. THE COSMOGONY, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
XI. THE RITUAL AND PRIESTHOOD, . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
XII. THE SACRED BOOKS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
XIII. PRIVATE WORSHIP, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
XIV. EGYPTIAN ETHICS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
XV. THE INFLUENCE OF EGYPT, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
INDEX, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

PRINCIPAL WORKS ON EGYPTIAN RELIGION

LANZONE.--_Dixionario di Mitologia Egizia_, 1881-86.
1312 pp., 408 pls. About £4 second hand. (The
indispensable storehouse of facts and references.)

WIEDEMANN.--_Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, 1897.
307 pp, 73 figs. 12s. 6d. (The best general view of the
subject.)

WIEDEMANN.--Article in supplement to _Hastings's Dictionary
of the Bible_. (Excellent outline.)

WIEDEMANN.--_Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of Immortality_,
1895. 71 pp., 21 figs., 2 pls. 3s.

MASPERO.--_Dawn of Civilisation_, see pp. 81-222, 1894. 25s.
(A popular outline by a master.)

MASPERO.--_Études de Mythologie_, 1893, 895 pp.

MASPERO.--_Inscriptions des Pyramides de Saqqara_, 1894.
456 pp., 9 pl.

RENOUF.--_Book of the Dead_, 1893-1902. 308 pp., 53 pl. £2.
(The standard translation with the illustrations.)

BUDGE.--_Gods of the Egyptians_, 1904. 908 pp., 131 figs.,
98 pls. £3. 3s. (Useful repertory, but illustrations not
exact.)

SAYCE.--_Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia_, 1902.
509 pp. 7s. 6d. (Useful for comparative view.)

PETRIE.--_Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt_, 1898.
176 pp. 2s. 6d. (A study of the nature of conscience,
and the tribal aspect of religion.)

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THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT