The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 97 first two standards are the jackals of Anubis, on the next the ibis of Thoth, then the hawk of Hor ...

98 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia found monuments of early Egypt. On the Pharaonic monuments of that remote age th ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 99 And this symbolism, it will be noticed, accompanies the introduction of symbolic writing. The figu ...

100 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia between two antagonistic currents of religious thought, appears very clearly wh ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 101 a bird, if so he willed. Transmigration from one body to another, indeed, never presented any dif ...

102 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Egyptian, whatever might be his rank and station, could follow the processions ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 103 it was needful that he should be black. Nor was the worship of the bull confined to the north. At ...

104 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of cats have been found at Bubastis, at Beni-Hassan, and other places; so too t ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 105 Under the Ptolemies, Greek ideas gathered round the person of a deity who thus united in himself ...

106 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Egyptians, and the deities they adored were consequently also there before the ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 107 last days of Egyptian paganism the sun-god of Heliopolis was not a bull, but a man; and though th ...

108 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia emblems borne on the flagstaffs of the prehistoric boats, like the emblems on t ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 109 has been said that such composite creatures were as real to the Egyptian as the cattle and sheep ...

110 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia called into existence; they were abortive attempts at creation, composed of lim ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 111 And, it must be remembered, it is only in Chaldæa that they find their explanation. Here they ori ...

112 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia [121] the chronological registers, and find that it has returned exactly when t ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 113 conception of the soul there accordingly gathered associations with the light, and more especiall ...

114 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of the sacred animals from being pictured on the temple walls. As long as there ...

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 115 of the gods were also their tombs, and even among the Greeks the sepulchre of Zeus was pointed ou ...

116 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia “What is fortune? say the wise. Vanished are the hearths and homes, What he doe ...