Wallis Budge

Book of Ancient Ethiopian religious doctrine, history, and mysticism.

Osiris the king, was slain by his brother Set, dismembered, scattered, then gathered up and reconstituted by his wife Isis and finally placed in the underworld as lord and judge of the dead. He was worshipped in Egypt from archaic, pre-dynastic times right through the 4000-year span of classical Egyptian civilization up until the Christian era, and even today folkloristic elements of his worship survive among the Egyptian fellaheen. In this book E. A. Wallis Budge, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, focuses on Osiris as the single most important Egyptian deity. This is the most thorough explanation ever offered of Osirism. With rigorous scholarship, going directly to numerous Egyptian texts, making use of the writings of Herodotus, Diodorus, Plutarch and other classical writers, and of more recent ethnographic research in the Sudan and other parts of Africa, Wallis Budge examines every detail of the cult of Osiris. At the same time he establishes a link between Osiris worship and African religions. He systematically investigates such topics as: the meaning of the name "Osiris" (in Egyptian, Asar); the iconography associated with him; the heaven of Osiris as conceived in the VIth dynasty; Osiris's relationship to cannibalism, human sacrifice and dancing; Osiris as ancestral spirit, judge of the dead, moon-god and bull-god; the general African belief in god; ideas of sin and purity in Osiris worship; the shrines, miracle play and mysteries of Osiris; "The Book of Making the Spirit of Osiris" and other liturgical texts; funeral and burial practices of the Egyptians and Africans; the idea of the Ka, spirit-body and shadow; magical practices relating to Osiris; and the worship of Osiris and Isis in foreign lands. Throughout there are admirable translations of pyramid texts (often with the original hierogyphics printed directly above) and additional lengthy texts are included in the appendices. There are also a great many reproductions of classical Egyptian art, showing each phase of the Osiris story and other images bearing upon his worship. The great wealth of detail, primary informatioin, and original interpretation in this book will make it indispensable to Egyptologists, students of classical civilization and students of comparative religion. Since Osiris seems to have been the earliest death and resurrection god, whose worship both caused and influenced later dieties, the cult of Osiris is highly important to all concerned with the development of human culture.

TAP INTO THE MAGICK OF THE PYRAMIDS THIS BOOK INCLUDES TEN OF THE MOST MAGICAL GOOD LUCK TALISMANS AND AMULETS FROM THE POWERFUL HIGH PRIESTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. THE PYRAMIDS SPEAK -- Revealing Ancient Mysteries Of Great Benefit To Modern Mankind FIRST TO CAST SPELLS -- A great deal of mystery has been associated with the pyramids of Egypt. For centuries there has been continual heated debate as to how the massive blocks - each weighing several tons - were actually lifted into place, reaching right up to the heavens and ending with a perfectly placed capstone. And while the pyramids have often been associated with the mummification of royal remains, the truth is that the pyramids were not really intended to be tombs. In about 350 B. C., King Nectanebo found the power of occult magick to his liking. When his kingdom was threatened, he would fight his enemies with wax figures, animating these "robots" with the breath of life by using a ritual taken directly from the Book of the Dead, a stone ledger containing the world's most powerful incantations. MANY QUESTIONS ANSWERED - TO BENEFIT ALL ** Does A Time Capsule Rest Under The Great Pyramid? - ** Will The Cross Jesus Was Crucified On Be Found Beneath The Sands of Egypt? - ** Did Spaceships Use The Pyramids To Recharge So They Could Return Home? - ** Did The Ancients Realize That The Shape of The Pyramid Itself Was Very Powerful? - ** Why Has The Fact That Pyramids Have Been Found All Over The Planet Been Withheld From The Public? FREE BONUS - YOUR BOOK CONTAINS A MINATURE PYRAMID "KIT" TO COPY WHICH IS BELIEVED TO HAVE MAGICAL POWERS YOU CAN TAP INTO ON YOUR OWN - ONE, TWO, THREE

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. This little book is intended to serve as an elementary introduction to the study of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study of the mental development of ancient nations. It is not addressed to the Egyptological specialist, to whom, as a matter of course, its contents are well known, and therefore its pages are not loaded with elaborate notes and copious references. It represents, I believe, the first attempt made to place before the public a summary of the principal contents of Egyptian Literature in a handy and popular form. The specimens of native Egyptian Literature printed herein are taken from tombs, papyri, stel , and other monuments, and, with few exceptions, each specimen is complete in itself. Translations of most of the texts have appeared in learned works written by Egyptologists in English, French, German, and Italian, but some appear in English for the first time. In every case I have collated my own translations with the texts, and, thanks to the accurate editions of texts which have appeared in recent years, it has been found possible to make many hitherto difficult passages clear. The translations are as literal as the difference between the Egyptian and English idioms will permit, but it has been necessary to insert particles and often to invert the order of the words in the original works in order to produce a connected meaning in English. The result of this has been in many cases to break up the short abrupt sentences in which the Egyptian author delighted, and which he used frequently with dramatic effect. Extraordinarily concise phrases have been paraphrased, but the meanings given to several unknown words often represent guess-work.