The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

57 of the latter. The Sumerians never advanced to the further stage of making the vital principle itself a separable quality; pe ...

58 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Among these new ideas was that of the Khu or“luminous” part of man. On the recen ...

59 The Khu thus forms a link between men and the gods, and participates in the divine nature. It is the soul regarded as a godli ...

60 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the soul is imprisoned in the earthly tabernacle of the body, the intelligence i ...

61 to return there. To the gods accordingly was committed the care of the Ba, and of seeing that it was properly provided for. B ...

62 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia time showing the coffer in which the stomach was. And having said this, he throw ...

63 the words of which were ascribed a magical effect. The chapter reads as follows:“O heart (ab) of my mother, O heart (%ati) of ...

64 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia accommodated to them, that it was possible for an Egyptian to speak of meeting h ...

65 preserved the bodies buried in it; and even as late as the time of the Pyramid texts of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, when t ...

66 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia to murder and madness. But at last, after ages of suffering, the end comes; it d ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. In my last lecture, when speaking of the form under which the soul of man was pictured b ...

68 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Abydos, two hawks stand above the wall of a city which seems to bear the name of ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 69 Dynasty, Sharu and Khufu, are carried in boats on the prows of which a hawk is perche ...

70 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of Isis and his twin brother Set. But the confusion between the two Horuses must ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 71 to the king, and presides over his kingdom; but it is only over the royal Ka that he ...

72 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia with the wings of the hawk.^48 A legend inscribed on the walls of the temple, wh ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 73 Maspero, that Horus was originally the sky, and is in favour of the general belief of ...

74 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia hieroglyph which depicts them. They were the twin mountains between which the su ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 75 case with Anupu or Anubis.^50 But though the name of Khar or Khur is and must remain ...

76 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Upper and Lower Egypt,”while the serpent of Uazit symbolised the north, the vult ...