Sacred Texts: Ancient Egypt

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lecture V. The Osirianization of the Hereafter

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Probably nothing in the life of the ancient Nile-dwellers commends them more appealingly to our sympathetic consideration than the fact that when the Osirian faith had once developed, it so readily caught the popular imagination as to spread rapidly among all classes. It thus came into active competition with the Solar faith of the court and state priesthoods. This was especially true of its doctrines of the after life, in the progress of which we can discern the gradual Osirianization of…

Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lecture V. The Osirianization of the Hereafter

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