The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Lecture V. Animal Worship. 117 Still more hopeless are the words put into the mouth of the wife of the high priest of Memphis at ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. In the language of ancient Egypt the wordnetersignified“a god.”Sir P. le Page Renouf endeavoured ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 119 the same connotation for him that they have for us. All that we can do is to approximate to t ...

120 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia We have already dealt with an important class of gods, those which had a solar ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 121 over Western Asia. The Egyptian Nu is the counterpart of the Babylonian Mummu, the mother of ...

122 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia However this may be, Thoth was the creator of the world through the word of his ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 123 Ashmunên), and who were often addressed as“the god eight,” like“the god seven”in Babylonia. P ...

124 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia treated; even to-day the ape in the zoological gardens of Giza is called by the ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 125 were four also. To each god, as it were, an ape was assigned. The influence of Hermopolis bel ...

126 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia of the Old Testament. The foreign nature of Ânuqet has long been recognised, fo ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 127 Hence he is called“the creator of all this, the fashioner of that which exists, the father of ...

128 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia kinsfolk did in later days into the tablelands of Abyssinia. The creator who wa ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 129 figures, the Greek writer tells us, were carved by the Phœnicians on the prows of their vesse ...

130 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia interpreted the liturgy of the dead and the magic formulæ which restored health ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 131 The Pharaonic Egyptians brought their own gods with them, and these naturally became the divi ...

132 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia and render unto thee royal homage. Stable are thy decrees for Egypt before thy ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 133 of Thebes, became paramount in the State religion of Egypt. But before we trace the history o ...

134 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia has the head of a lion, sometimes of a cat. At Philæ it is said of her that“she ...

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt. 135 her, as the gods were resolved into forms of Ra. The kings of the Sixth Dynasty called themse ...

136 The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia the destruction of mankind by Ra, she appears as the eye of the sun-god who pli ...