The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

217 The fame of Orion was eclipsed in later days by that of Sopd or Sirius. But this had its reason in the physio-graphical pecu ...

218 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia wicked. Not far off was the hippopotamus, which Brugsch would identify with Dra ...

219 a coincidence cannot have been accidental; the Babylonian and Egyptian decans must have had the same origin. But there was y ...

220 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia The lines are the introduction to a story of the Creation of which they form an ...

221 it was altogether unnatural. If water were needed, the sacred Nile flowed at the foot of the temple or else there were canal ...

222 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [241] was also characterised by a spirit of creativeness; the Egyptian created ...

223 assume an individual form, was part of the doctrine which saw, in the manifold varieties of nature, the manifestations of a“ ...

224 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia This very fact assisted in spiritualising Egyptian religion. Ideas and their sy ...

225 metaphors he used; but in this respect he does not stand alone. Where he has no rival is in the magnitude of the part played ...

226 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and as in him there can be no distinction between conception and birth, from al ...

227 embodies all that is intelligent, he is Imhotep; when he is he who accomplishes all things with art and verity, he is Phthah ...

228 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and that his confession in the judgment-hall of Osiris had been in agreement wi ...

229 son of a woman of Nubia, and will be born in [the south].... He shall assume the crown of Upper Egypt, and lift up the red c ...

230 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia But Amon-hotepIII. was not the first of whom it had been said that his father w ...

231 all go back to the priestly philosophers of Egypt. Gnosticism and Alexandrianism, the speculations of Christian metaphysic [ ...

Part II. The Religion Of The Babylonians. Lecture I. Introductory. It is now fourteen years ago since I delivered a course of le ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 233 and imperfect, the gaps in it are too numerous, to make anything of the sort possible. Our knowledg ...

234 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia inscriptions which were engraved when Sumerian princes still ruled the land, an ...

Lecture I. Introductory. 235 is much which has not yet been fully copied or examined. The British Museum, moreover, is no longer ...

236 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Genesis;^204 and, so far as they have been examined by Professor Hilprecht, it ...