New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Introduction Phần 1 pdf

[...]... symbol of life Originally a God of Thebes, Amon was raised by the conquests of Thutmoses III to the position of Supreme God of the known world Tomb of Thutmoses III from Deir el-Behri Eighteen dynasty, 15 80 -13 50 BC (Page 6) (11 ) Carved stone stele discovered near Avigone The face probably represents a deity and the stele itself would have been erected at a cult center Neolithic period (Page 7) (12 ) Rock... Goddess of joy and love She was proclaimed mistress of merriment and sovereign of the dance, mistress of music and sovereign of song, of leaping and jumping and the weaving of garlands Her temple was the 'home of intoxication and a place of enjoyment.’ Hathor nourished the living with her milk We see her giving her breast to the king whom she holds in her arms or on her knees and, again, in the form of. .. us the text of these lamentations Just as Nephthys and Isis had protected the mummy of their brother so the 'twins,’ as they are often called, also watched over the bodies of the dead who, by virtue of funeral rites, had become "Orises." On coffin-lids and the walls of sarcophagi we often see them represented, standing or kneeling, stretching forth their long, winged arms in a gesture of protection... nocturnal transit Often also we find a personage with the head of a falcon, surmounted by a disk with the Uraeus This is Ra-Harakhte, the great solar God of Heliopolis, sovereign lord of Egypt The forms and names of Ra are innumerable and the Litanies of the Sun, engraved at the entrance of the royal tombs, list no fewer than seventy-five Universally recognised as the creator and ruler of the world, Ra,... or of the heads being cut from corpses immediately after death To all appearances these skulls must have been preserved after the bodies had been stripped of flesh Hence from the remotest times when, on the evidence of the skull which is all we have of his body, man was still closely related to the ape, it would seem that there are proofs of his industry and that, at least in the form of a cult of. .. presently see how the tribunal of the Gods gave judgment in favour of Horus, who from the end of the second dynasty was considered to be the divine ancestor of the Pharaohs in whose records he is given the title Hor Nubti: 'Horus the Vanquisher of Set.’ Behdety, 'He of Behdet' (or Hor Behdetite) is another name of the great celestial Horus He was worshipped at Behdet, a district of ancient Edfu The Greeks... broad slabs of bone At La Ferrassie the two children at least were laid in artificial trenches The man's skeleton was covered by rubble and protected by chips of bone The skeleton of Moustier had its skull placed on a sort of pillow formed by a heap of flint fragments carefully adapted to the shape of the head The nose seems to have been especially protected by two chips of flint The bodies of both La... the door of the tomb Anubis also makes sure that offerings brought by the deceased's heirs actually reach him Afterwards we see Anubis take the dead by the hand and, in his capacity of Osiris' usher, introduce him into the presence of the sovereign judges before whom he then weighs the soul of the dead This role of God of the dead won Anubis a universal cult and his admission into the circle of Osiris... with an inventory of treasures brought to the Gods of Egypt by a naval expedition on its return from the land of Punt Nekhebet, the Goddess, in the form of a vulture with outstretched wings, hovers protectively over the Pharaoh Mem-kau-Heru, of the Fifth Dynasty Louvre Thoth Was the keeper of the divine archives and at the same tin the patron of history He carefully noted the succession oftk sovereigns... kings of the sixth dynasty had engraved inside their pyramids 25 centuries before him It seems that the earliest representations of Eyptian deities appeared about the middle of the fourth millennium, long before the earliest hieroglyphs In those days, the inhabitants of the Nile valley lived in tribes Each tribe had its own God, which was incarnated in the form either of an animal, of a bird or of a . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Introduction by Robert Graves CRESCENT BOOKS NEW YORK New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Translated by Richard. permission of The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. ISBN 0- 517 -00404-6 Printed in Yugoslavia Scan begun 20 November 20 01 Ended (at this point Goddess knows when) LaRousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Graves: Introduction G H. Luquet: Prehistoric Mythology The religion of the first men The cult of the dead J. Viaud: Egyptian Mythology The Ennead of Heliopolis and the family of Osiris