The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 77 theological associations made it the starting-point of a new phase of religious thoug ...

78 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia or at Memphis an artist who had carved them out of stone, so it was as a father ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 79 But it was only its first father and generator who was the god of the nome in which t ...

80 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia was born. Between the Babylonian and the Egyptian schemes the differences are sl ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 81 column of wood,^58 in which some have seen an emblem of the sun-god, like the sun-pil ...

82 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Egyptian temples. This was the identification of one god with another, or, to sp ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 83 of Ra.”It narrowed their pretensions to divinity, and at the same time implied their ...

84 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia in some cases, at least, can be shown to have been formed by the union of foreig ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 85 be conceived of as symbolical like the generation of thought, all the more since the ...

86 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia noteworthy development of solar worship in Egypt. It is perhaps hardly correct t ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 87 god”was unique only to the worshipper, and to the worshipper only in so far as his wo ...

88 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia had given them their empire over the world, and upon whose city of Thebes the sp ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 89 whose visible symbol is the solar disc, is He, as we learn from them, who has created ...

90 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia The solar disc was thus, as it were, the mask through which the supreme Creator ...

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead. 91 ThothmesIII., speaks of being“beloved by the beams of the solar disc”(Aten-Ra); and t ...

92 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia they spring into existence. There was no chaos of matter outside and before him; ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. St. Clement of Alexandria thus describes the religion of his Egyptian neighbours (Pædag.iii. 2):“Amon ...

94 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia A Roman soldier who had accidentally killed a cat was torn to pieces by the mob ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 95 could enter for a time whatever material form it chose; could fly to heaven, for instance, in the ...

96 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia have been one closely akin to African fetishism. The gods appear frequently, but ...