The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589836782
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts written by James P. Allen and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies in their antiquity and in their endurance throughout the entire intellectual history of ancient Egypt. This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published. It incorporates full restorations and readings indicated by post-Old Kingdom copies of the texts and is the first translation that presents the texts in the order in which they were meant to be read in each of the original sources.

Author : Harold M. Hays
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004227490
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization of the Pyramid Texts (2 vol. set) written by Harold M. Hays and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest body of religious texts in the world. This book weds traditional philology to linguistic anthropology to associate them with two spheres of ritual action, mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife.

Author : Jeremy Naydler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776180
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts written by Jeremy Naydler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals • Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists • Examines the similarity between the pharaoh’s afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying • Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical tradition To the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient world, Egypt was regarded as the home of a profound mystical wisdom. While there are many today who still share that view, the consensus of most Egyptologists is that no evidence exists that Egypt possessed any mystical tradition whatsoever. Jeremy Naydler’s radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts--the earliest body of religious literature to have survived from ancient Egypt--places these documents into the ritual context in which they belong. Until now, the Pyramid Texts have been viewed primarily as royal funerary texts that were used in the liturgy of the dead pharaoh or to aid him in his afterlife journey. This emphasis on funerary interpretation has served only to externalize what were actually experiences of the living, not the dead, king. In order to understand the character and significance of the extreme psychological states the pharaoh experienced--states often involving perilous encounters with alternate realities--we need to approach them as spiritual and religious phenomena that reveal the extraordinary possibilities of human consciousness. It is the shamanic spiritual tradition, argues Naydler, that is the undercurrent of the Pyramid Texts and that holds the key to understanding both the true nature of these experiences and the basis of ancient Egyptian mysticism.

Author : Susan Brind Morrow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944269
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawning Moon of the Mind written by Susan Brind Morrow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world’s oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they have been misconstrued by Western Egyptologists as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating to obscurity their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific inquiry, and religion. Now, in a seminal work, the classicist and linguist Susan Brind Morrow has recast the Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognized as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. In The Dawning Moon of the Mind she explains how to read hieroglyphs, contextualizes their evocative imagery, and interprets the entire poem. The result is a magisterial religious and philosophical text revealing a profound consciousness of the world with astonishing parallels to Judeo-Christian culture, Buddhism, and Tantra. More than twenty years in the making, The Dawning Moon of the Mind is a monumental achievement that locates one of the origins of poetic thought in Western culture. Almost before science, art, and written language, these texts set forth the relationship between time and eternity, life and death, history and ideas. In The Dawning Moon of the Mindthey emerge in their original luminosity and intelligence alongside a persuasive argument for their central importance to the history of language.

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575067536
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis written by James P. Allen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is designed as a six-volume study of the earliest comprehensive corpus of ancient Egyptian texts, inscribed in the pyramids of five pharaohs of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2325–2150 BC) and several of their queens. The first volume, devoted to the earliest corpus, that of Unis, is based on a database that allows for detailed analysis of the orthography of the texts and every aspect of their grammar; it includes a complete hieroglyphic lexicon of the texts and a consecutive transcription and translation on facing pages. The grammatical analysis incorporates both the most recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar and a few new interpretations published here for the first time.

Author : Raymond Oliver Faulkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856682971
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts written by Raymond Oliver Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyramid Texts, which were carved on the walls of the pyramids of the kings of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties to guide the dead king through the Netherworld and protect his welfare there, constitute the oldest corpus of religious and funerary texts and, as such are, of fundamental importance for the students of Egyptian religion. This translation, completed in 1969 by a leading authority on these texts, is one of the most accessible, scholarly and complete available, and this reprint should be useful not only to Egyptologists but also to those interested in the history of religion and the occult.

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575067520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts written by James P. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is designed as a six-volume study of the earliest comprehensive corpus of ancient Egyptian texts, inscribed in the pyramids of five pharaohs of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2325-2150 BC) and several of their queens. The first volume, devoted to the earliest corpus, that of Unis, is based on a database that allows for detailed analysis of the orthography of the texts and every aspect of their grammar; it includes a complete hieroglyphic lexicon of the texts and a consecutive transcription and translation on facing pages. The grammatical analysis incorporates both the most recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar and a few new interpretations published here for the first time.

Author : Gyula Priskin
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691990
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 written by Gyula Priskin and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154–160, recorded at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. Based on a new translation, the detailed analysis of these spells reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month.

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.MX/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Oliver Faulkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856687549
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts written by Raymond Oliver Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, these writings were intended to supply the deceased with the speeches he would need to achieve a secure and important position in the next world. As such they supply valuable insights into Egyptian beliefs and mortuary practices. Concise textual notes are kept to a minimum, allowing the character of the texts to be experienced as a whole. Indexes cover divinities, localities, celestial bodies, selected Egyptian words in translation and also the parts of boats and sailing gear that figure prominently in some spells.