9780801482489
Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods
Dimitri Meeks; Christine Favard-Meeks
ISBN 13: 9780801482489
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
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This book describes the ancient Egyptian gods' community, the structures of their society, the nature of their immortal but not invulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs. The authors cite familiar traditions and little-known texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth.
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Book Description: Cornell University Press, United States, 1996. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 229 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists.The book begins with a discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not invulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and little-known texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent them on earth. By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780801482489 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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