Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Title | Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004440143 |
This book fills a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Focusing on the visual language surrounding these cults, it aims to understand how images depict mysteries in different cults: Dionysus, Mithras, Mother of the Gods, and Isiac cults.
Ancient and accepted Rite. Thirtieth degree. Rite Ancien, etc. Fr. and Eng
Title | Ancient and accepted Rite. Thirtieth degree. Rite Ancien, etc. Fr. and Eng PDF eBook |
Author | Charles LAFFON-LADEBAT |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1857 |
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The Mythology of All Races ...
Title | The Mythology of All Races ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Mythology |
ISBN |
Papers
Title | Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Coffin of Heqata
Title | The Coffin of Heqata PDF eBook |
Author | Harco Willems |
Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Coffin texts |
ISBN | 9789068317695 |
The coffin published in this book represents a type that had some popularity in southern Upper Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, but which, despite its extraordinary decoration had not attracted attention so far. The most striking feature of the decoration is that the object friezes - the pictorial rendering of ritual implements usually found on coffin interiors of the period - also include complete ritual scenes, some of which are attested only here. Apart from this, the decoration includes an extensive selection of the religious texts know as the Coffin Texts. The author first studies the archaeological context and dating of the coffin and attempts a reconstruction of the construction procedures from his technical description of the monument. The detailed account of the decoration in the rest of the book interprets the ritual iconography and offers fresh translations and interpretations of the Coffin Texts. A methodological innovation is that he regards the scenes and texts not as individual decoration elements, but as components of an integral composition. The background of this composition is argued to be a view of life in the hereafter in which the deceased is involved in an unending cycle of ritual action which reflects the funerary rituals that were actually performed on earth. On the one hand, these netherworldly rituals aim at bringing the deceased to new life by mummification, on the other the newly regenerated deceased partakes in embalming rituals for gods representing his dead father (Osiris or Atum). These gods, in their turn, effectuate the deceased's regeneration. The entire process results in a cycle of resuscitation in which the afterlife of the deceased and of the 'father gods' are interdependent. The sociological bias of this interpretation, with its emphasis on kinship relations, differs significantly from earlier attempts to explain Egyptian funerary religion.
Mysteres Egyptiens, by Alexandre Moret
Title | Mysteres Egyptiens, by Alexandre Moret PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandre Moret |
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Pages | |
Release | 1913 |
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The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual
Title | The Tekenu and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ritual PDF eBook |
Author | Glennise West |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2019-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789691834 |
Attested from the Fifth Dynasty until, and including, the Saite Period, the Tekenu is a puzzling icon depicted within funerary scenes in the tombs of some ancient Egyptian nobles. In this work four distinct types of Tekenu are identified and classified and then a Corpus Catalogue is formed.