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Religions Ancient and Modern

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. (Theindispensable storehouse of facts and references.)

WIEDEMANN.—Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, 1897.307 pp, 73 figs. 12s. 6d. (The best general view of thesubject.)

WIEDEMANN.—Article in supplement to Hastings's D