The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld : : Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schweizer, Andreas,
• MitwirkendeR: Hornung, Erik,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hornung, Erik.; Lorton, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]; ©2011
• Rok wydania: 2010
• Język: English
• Opis fizyczny: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 46 line drawings and an 8-page color gallery

"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. He...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword To The German Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Editor's Note
• Immersion Into Darkness
• The Amduat-The Book Of The Hidden Chamber
• The Title Of The Amduat
• First Hour: The Jubilation Of The Baboons
• Second Hour: The Fertile Region Of Wernes
• Third Hour: Rowing On The Water Of Osiris
• Fourth Hour: The Snake-Land Of Sokar
• Fifth Hour: The Mystery Of The Cavern Of Sokar
• Sixth Hour: The Corpse Of The Sungod And The Rebirth Of Light
• Seventh Hour: Apopis, Enemy Of The Sun
• Eighth Hour: Provision With Clothes
• Ninth Hour: The Sungod's Crew
• Tenth Hour: The Bodyguard Of The Sungod
• Eleventh Hour: The Renewal Of Time
• Twelfth Hour: The End Of The Primeval Darkness
• Closure: The Five Stages Of Renewal
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index