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CONTENTS

CHAP.

 

Page

 

INTRODUCTION

xvii

I.

CREATION LEGEND OF SUN WORSHIPPERS

1

II.

THE TRAGEDY OF OSIRIS

15

III.

DAWN OF CIVILIZATION

30

IV.

THE PEASANT WHO BECAME KING

45

V.

RACIAL MYTHS IN EGYPT AND EUROPE

62

VI.

THE CITY OF THE ELF GOD

77

VII.

DEATH AND THE JUDGMENT

87

VIII.

THE RELIGION OF THE STONE WORKERS

102

IX.

A DAY IN OLD MEMPHIS

116

X.

THE GREAT PYRAMID KINGS

131

XI.

FOLK TALES OF FIFTY CENTURIES

142

XII.

TRIUMPH OF THE SUN GOD

155

XIII.

FALL OF THE OLD KINGDOM

171

XIV.

FATHER GODS AND MOTHER GODDESSES

185

XV.

THE RISE OF AMON

195

XVI.

TALE OF THE FUGITIVE PRINCE

207

XVII.

EGYPT'S GOLDEN AGE

221

XVIII.

MYTHS AND LAYS OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

234

XIX.

THE ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENT

228

XX.

THE HYKSOS AND THEIR STRANGE GOD

252

XXI.

JOSEPH AND THE EXODUS

268

XXII.

AMON, THE GOD OF EMPIRE

280

XXIII.

TALK OF THE DOOMED PRINCE

294

XXIV.

CHANGES IN SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE

302

XXV.

AMENHOTEP THE MAGNIFICENT AND QUEEN TIY

316

XXVI.

THE RELIGIOUS REVOLT OF THE POET KING

325

XXVII.

THE EMPIRE OF RAMESES AND THE HOMERIC AGE

338

XXVIII.

EGYPT AND THE HEBREW MONARCHY

352

XXIX.

THE RESTORATION AND THE END

363

 

PLATES IN COLOR

THE GIRL WIFE AND THE BATA BULL p. 194a

THE FARMER PLUNDERS THE PEASANT p. 194b

SENUHET SLAYS THE WARRIOR OF TONU p. 194c

QUEEN AHMES (WIFE OF THOTHMES I) p. 194d

LURING THE DOOM SERPENT p. 194e

FOWLING SCENE p. 194f

FARM SCENE p. 194g

PASTIME IN ANCIENT EGYPT THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO p. 194h

 

PLATES IN MONOCHROME

 

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LUNAR, SOLAR, AND EARTH GODS (THOTH, OSIRIS-AH, PTAH, RA, AND SET)

16

OSIRIS, ISIS, AND HORUS

17

SACRED ANIMALS

70

FIGURE OF THE APIS BULL, WITH A KING MAKING OFFERING

71

THE STEP PYRAMID OF SAKKARA

100

JUDGMENT SCENE: WEIGHING THE HEART

101

SERVITORS BRINGING THEIR OFFERINGS

108

"USHEBTIU" FIGURES OF VARIOUS PERIODS

109

A SEATED SCRIBE

124

AN OLD KINGDOM OFFICIAL ("SHEIKH-EL-BELED")

125

THE GREAT PYRAMID OF KHUFU (CHEOPS)

138

KING KHAFRA (IV DYNASTY)

139

NEFERT, A ROYAL PRINCESS OF THE OLD KINGDOM PERIOD

190

THREE TYPICAL "GREAT MOTHER" DEITIES (ISIS, BAST, AND SEKHET)

191

COURTYARD OF AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE (RESTORED)

238

LOCAL GODS WITH ADDED SOLAR AND OTHER AT TRIBUTES (KHNÛMÛ, SEBEK, MIN, BES, ANUBIS)

239

EGYPTIAN CHARIOT (FLORENCE MUSEUM)

278

EGYPTIAN KING (SETI I) MOUNTED ON CHARIOT

278

A PLATOON (TROOP) OF EGYPTIAN SPEARMEN

279

DEITIES OF THE EMPIRE PERIOD (AMON-RA, MUT, AND HAPI)

288

RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF DER-EL-BAHARI, THEBES

289

AMENHOTEP III

326

AMENHOTEP IV (AKHENATON)

327

AKHENATON, HIS QUEEN, AND THEIR CHILDREN

348

MUMMY HEADS OF NOTABLE PHARAOHS (THOTHMES II, RAMESES II. RAMESES III, SETI I)

349

GREAT SEA AND LAND RAID: PHILISTINE PRISONERS

356

AMON PRESENTING TO SHESHONK LIST OF CITIES CAPTURED IN ISRAEL AND JUDAH

357

RESTORATION PERIOD DEITIES (PTAH -SOKAR -OSIRIS, IMHOTEP)

374

MUMMY CASES

375

 


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