Religion of Ancient Egypt

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Other religions

Authors: William Matthew Flinders Petrie In Year : 1906

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Religion of Ancient Egypt

Chapter I: The Nature of Gods
Chapter II: The nature of man
Chapter III: The future life
Chapter IV: Animal worship
Chapter V: The groups of gods. Animal-headed gods
Chapter VI: The human gods
Chapter VII: The cosmic gods
Chapter VIII: The abstract gods
Chapter IX: The foreign gods
Chapter X: The cosmogony
Chapter XI: The ritual and priesthood
Chapter XII: The sacred books
Chapter XIII: Private worship
Chapter XIV: Egyptian ethics
Chapter XV: The influence of Egypt

William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian Archaeology. In this scientific paper he describes special varieties of the conception of the supernatural in ancient Egypt. The source text also includes a list of "principal works on Egyptian religion" and a list of works "on religions ancient and modern". (Summary by Kajo and Piotrek81)