Identification of Godlikes through The Egyptian Religious texts | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Article 8, Volume 6, Issue 21, April 1995, Pages 1-16 PDF (1.47 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.1995.141729 | ||
| Author | ||
| Abu El eyoun Barakat* | ||
| لا يوجد | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A comprehensive review of the religious texts; pyramid texts(l), coffin texts(2), and book of the dead(3), reveals that numerous names of characters, who resemble gods, appear in these texts having no reference in the other texts or in the inscriptions on the walls of temples and/or tombs. The ancient Egyptians, in their life, did not express any petitions or prays those characters indicating doubts about their god-being and whether they were gods acting in the netherworld or they were spirits who had a definite duty in the netherworld, SO~they be dealt with as the so called ”godlikes” in this paper. Among the godlikes under this study whose names frequently appear in the religious texts, Nhb-Ksw, M3-l).3.f, ancl,.Cqn are.the godlikes to be considered in this respect. Nhb-kIw was drawn in various snaky forms. The most important forms are: (1) a great snake having two heads each with a different neck,(5) and the tail is ended with a snaky head(6). (Fig. 1,2), (2) a snake having a human limbs with raising hands to the mouth or carrying a small container, with w3dteye. This form is also graved on ’the basis of Sekhmet and Bastet thronesf/), (Fig. 3), and (3) a human form with snaky head. This form is represented in the ivory.statuesin. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| IDentification of Godlikes through The Egyptian Religious texts; The Egyptian Religious texts; Religion | ||
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