| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
878553
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Clark, R. T. Rundle, (Robert Thomas Rundle)
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Myth and symbol in ancient Egypt /\ R.T. Rundle Clark.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
London :: Thames and Hudson,, 1978.
|
|
|
:
|
, ©1959.
|
| Series Statement
|
:
|
Myth and man
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm.
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0500110166
|
|
|
:
|
: 0500271127
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780500110164
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780500271124
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Preface -- Chronological table -- The gods -- Mythological scheme -- Map: Chief cult centres of ancient Egypt -- Introduction -- The High God in the Old Kingdom -- The High God in the age of the Coffin Texts -- Osiris-Original scheme -- Osiris universalized -- Esoteric Osiris -- Some myths about the Great Gods -- Mythological symbols -- Chart of the major religious symbols -- Conclusion.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This classic study remains the best single introduction to the Egyptian mythological world. The Egyptians lived apart from the rest of the ancient world, and it is this isolation that makes their ideas so difficult to appreciate and interpret. Egyptian though was presented in terms of mythology: myth was used to convey insights into the workings of nature and the ultimately indescribable realities of the soul ...
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Egyptian.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythologie égyptienne.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Arqueologia/pre-historia (egito)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Historia antiga-- egito (religiao, mitologia)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mitologia e mito.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythologie égyptienne.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Egyptian.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
299.31
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
BL2441.2.C55 1978
|