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Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: Contents

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