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Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Contents

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| LECTURE I | | | Nature and the State Make Their Impression on Religion—Earliest Systems | 3 | | Natural sources of the content of Egyptian religion chiefly two: the sun and the Nile or vegetation—The Sun-myth and the Solar theology—The national state makes its impression on religion—Re the Sun-god becomes the state god of Egypt—Osiris and his nature: he was Nile or the soil and the vegetation fructified by it—The Osiris-myth—Its early rise in the Delta and migration to Upper…