Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods: Images of the Commune Tapa dura - 1996
de Dimitri Meeks; Christine Favard-Meeks; G. M. Goshgarian (Translator)
Descripción de contraportada
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 the 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 vulnerable 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 littleknown 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.
Detalles
- Título Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods: Images of the Commune
- Autor Dimitri Meeks; Christine Favard-Meeks; G. M. Goshgarian (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First American E
- Páginas 288
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
- Fecha de publicación 1996-10-31
- ISBN 9780801431159 / 0801431158
- Peso 1.2 libras (0.54 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.34 x 6.23 x 0.86 pulgadas (23.72 x 15.82 x 2.18 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
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Temas
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: North Africa
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 96-7984
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.31
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Library Journal, 10/01/1996, Page 84
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