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A. E. vol Albert Nyanza Ammon Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians animal ankh Antiquités appears Arabs Architecture Atbara Athor author's Hero author's Herodotus Birch Brugsch Bunsen Bunsen's Egypt chamber character colour cultivated Culto deities Delta Description de l'Egypte desert Diod Diodorus dotus dynasty Egyp Egypt's Place feet Fergusson figures goddess gods Greeks Guide to Museum head height Herod Herodotus hieroglyphics Hist Horus Ibid Isis Karnak Kenrick Khem kings Kneph Lake land Lenormant Lepsius Lord Manuel miles modern monuments nearly Nephthys Nile valley obelisk ordinary Osir Osiris Past peculiar Phthah pillars Plin portion priests probably pyramid Rameses Rameses III Records regarded representation represented Ritual river rodotus Roman Rosellini sacred Savak says scarcely side sometimes stone Strab Taouris temple Thebes thee Thoth thou tians tion tombs Topography of Thebes tract viii Vyse width Wilkinson worship
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Page 480 - and he has no easy way of avoiding their extortionate demands. Next, the wretch is caught, bound and sent off to work without wage at the canals; his wife is taken and chained; his children are stripped and plundered.
Page 315 - Deity, or parts of the nature which he had created, considered as informed and inspired by him. Num or Kneph represented the creative mind, Phthah the creative hand, or act of creating ; Maut represented matter, Ra the sun, Khons the moon, Seb the earth, Khem the generative power in nature...
Page 208 - Syene — a distance of 500 miles— polished like glass and so fitted that the joints can hardly be detected. Nothing can be more wonderful than the extraordinary amount of knowledge displayed in the construction of the discharging chambers over the roof of the principal apartment, in the alignment of the sloping galleries, in the provision of ventilating shafts, and in all the wonderful contrivances of the structure. All these, too, are carried out with such precision that, notwithstanding the...
Page 233 - ... no language can convey an idea of its beauty, and no artist has yet been able to reproduce its form so as to convey to those who have not seen it an idea of its grandeur.
Page 545 - The crocodile hears its cries, and, making for the sound, encounters the pork, which he instantly swallows down. The men on the shore haul, and when they have got him to land, the first thing the hunter does is to plaster his eyes with mud. This once accomplished, the animal is despatched with ease, otherwise he gives great trouble.
Page 208 - No one can possibly examine the interior of the Great Pyramid without being struck with astonishment at the wonderful mechanical skill displayed in its construction. The immense blocks of granite brought from...
Page 327 - Deliverer of the timid man from the violent: judging the poor, the poor and the oppressed: Lord of wisdom whose precepts are wise: at whose pleasure the Nile overflows: Lord of mercy most loving: at whose coming men live: opener of every eye: proceeding from the firmament: causer of pleasure and light: at whose goodness the gods rejoice: their hearts revive when they see him.
Page 367 - Commencement of the Book of Respirations made by Isis for her brother Osiris, to give life to his soul, to give life to his body, to rejuvenate all his members anew ; that he may reach the horizon with his father, the Sun ; that his soul may rise to Heaven in the disk of the Moon ; that his body may shine in the stars of Orion on the bosom of Nu-t...
Page 315 - God was worshipped in some one of His forms, or in some one of His aspects. It does not appear that in more than a very few cases did the Egyptian religion, as conceived of by the initiated, deify created beings, or constitute a class of secondary gods who owed their existence to the Supreme God. Ra was not a Sun-Deity with a distinct and separate existence, but the Supreme God acting in the sun, making His light to shine on the earth, warming, cheering, and 1 "Ancient Egyptians,