{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/emec/emec01.htm","path":"egy/emec/emec01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec01.htm","text":"| THE RELIGION OF UPPER EGYPT. | PAGE | \n| The gods created out of visible objects and attributes | 2 | \n| The goddesses | 5 | \n| Gods who had been mortals | 7 | \n| Their families | 8 | \n| The biography of Osiris | 9 | \n| His birthplace and burial place | 10 | \n| Monotheism and polytheism compared | 11 | \n| Their number increased by division and by union | 12 | \n| The trinities | 14 | \n| The animals worshipped | 15 | \n| Wars about the animals | 16 | \n| Worship of ancestors | 17 | \n| Worship of kings | 17 | \n| Their miraculous birth | 18 | \n| The sacred tree of life | 19 | \n| Reasons for this worship | 20 | \n| The temples described | 21 | \n| The intercolumnar separation between priest and laity | 24 | \n| The priesthood | 26 | \n| The priests' cells | 27 | \n| The orders of priesthood | 28 | \n| Their ornaments copied by the Jews | 30 | \n| Their duties | 33 | \n| Their ventriloquism, serpent charming, divining | 37 | \n| Their wives, priestesses | 39 | \n| Their dress, tonsure, offerings | 39 | \n| The sacrifice of criminals | 41 | \n| The pyramids of Memphis and cave tombs of Thebes | 42 | \n| That of Oimenepthah I. | 43 | \n| The love for the gods | 45 | \n| The conquest of the serpent of evil | 45 | \n| The mummies | 47 | \n| The four gods of the dead | 49 | \n| Ceremonies of burial | 50 | \n| The trial by Osiris | 50 | \n| The mediators and their atonement | 52 | \n| Two views of the resurrection | 53 | \n| The funereal tablets | 55 | \n| The employments after death | 56 | \n| Opinions about the future state borrowed by Greeks | 57 | \n| THE RELIGION OF LOWER EGYPT. | | \n| The rise of Lower Egypt, its foreign population | 59 | \n| The pigmy Pthah | 60 | \n| The Cabeiri, or punishing gods | 62 | \n| They are worshipped in fear | 62 | \n| Chiun, the foreign Venus | 63 | \n| Ranpo or Remphan | 64 | \n| The Persian Anaita | 64 | \n| The goddess Neith of Sais | 65 | \n| The funereal Papyrus or Ritual | 66 | \n| Bigotry and persecution | 68 | \n| Egyptian opinions in Palestine, Etruria, Cyprus, Malta, and Sardinia | 69 | \n| The Theory of the Creation | 69 | \n| THE RELIGION UNDER THE PERSIAN CONQUERORS. | | \n| Persian Sun-worship | 73 | \n| Plato and the School of Heliopolis | 74 | \n| THE RELIGION UNDER THE PTOLEMIES. | | \n| The rise of Alexandria | 76 | \n| The Greek translation of the Bible by the LXX | 79 | \n| Its peculiarities | 80 | \n| The Apocryphal Books | 81 | \n| Philo and the Jewish Monks | 83 | \n| The Eleusinian mysteries | 84 | \n| The Alexandrian character | 85 | \n| THE RELIGION UNDER THE ROMANS. | | \n| The worship of Serapis | 87 | \n| The worship of Horus | 87 | \n| The trinities | 88 | \n| Horus a Child | 89 | \n| Isis with Horus in her arms | 89 | \n| This worship introduced into Rome | 90 | \n| CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. | | \n| Christianity in Egypt | 92 | \n| Its corruption | 93 | \n| It raises the Egyptians | 94 | \n| Gnosticism; its sculptured gems | 95 | \n| Serpent worship | 96 | \n| Its \u00c6ons, the Ogdoad | 97 | \n| Its Trinity | 99 | \n| The Book of Revelation | 100 | \n| Clemens and Origen | 101 | \n| The Trinity of Dionysius | 102 | \n| The Docet\u00e6 | | \n| Christians persecuted as political disturbers | 103 | \n| The rebellions against Rome | 103 | \n| The worship of Mithra and Manicheism | 104 | \n| CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE BYZANTINE EMPERORS. | | \n| The rise of Egyptian opinions and the Arian Controversy | 106 | \n| The Council of Nic\u00e6a and Athanasius | 108 | \n| The Nicene Creed | 109 | \n| The Athanasian Creed | 109 | \n| Temples turned into Churches | 111 | \n| St. George and the Dragon | 112 | \n| Italy and the West adopt the Egyptian opinions | 113 | \n| The monastic institutions | 114 | \n| St. Ambrose, St. Augustin, St. Jerome | 115 | \n| Theodosius makes Constantinople take Egyptian opinions | 116 | \n| Egyptian MSS.; relics | 117 |","title":"Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: Contents","type":"page"}