The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volumes I, II & III (Forgotten Books) - Brossura

Wallis Budge, E.A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1605064475 ISBN 13: 9781605064475

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2008

Riassunto

Book Description:

"This is a three volume collection of texts and commentary about the Ancient Egyptian alternate reality called the Tuat. The Tuat was both the region that the boat of the Sun God Ra traversed during the night, and the place where inhabitants of this world went after death. A description of the Tuat, and its inhabitants and portals, was inscribed on the walls of the tombs of all social strata." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

Table of Contents:

Publisher's Preface; The Book Of Am-tuat; Note; The Book Am-tuat: The Title Of The Work; The First Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Net-ra; The Second Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Urnes; The Third Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Net-neb-ua-kheper-aut; The Fourth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Ankhet-kheperu; The Fifth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Ament.; The Sixth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Metchet-mu-nebt-tuat; The Seventh Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Thephet-asar; The Eighth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Tebat-neteru-s; The Ninth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Best-aru-ankhet-kheperu; The Tenth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Metet-qa-utchebu; The Eleventh Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Re-en-qerert-apt-khatu; The Twelfth Division Of The Tuat, Which Is Called Then-neteru; The Book Of Gates; Note; The Short Form Of The Book Of Am-tuat; The Alabaster Sarcophagus Of Seti I; The Ante-chamber Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Saa-set; The Gate Of Aqebi. The Third Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Tchetbi. The Fourth Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Teka-hra. The Fifth Division Of The Tuat; The Judgment Hall Of Osiris; The Gate Of Set-em-maat-f; The Gate Of Akha-en-maat. The Seventh Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Set-hra. The Eighth Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Ab-ta. The Ninth Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Sethu. The Tenth Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Am-netu-f. The Eleventh Division Of The Tuat; The Gate Of Sebi And Reri. The Twelfth Division Of The Tuat; The Egyptian Heaven And Hell; Preface; Origin Of Illustrated Guides To The Other World; The Earliest Egyptian Conception Of The Other World; The Reunion Of The Beatified And Their Recognition Of Each Other In The Other World; The Book Am-tuat And The Book Of Gates; The Contents Of The Book Am-tuat And The Book Of Gates Compared. The Western Vestibule Or Antechamber Of The Tuat; Second Division Of The Tuat; Third Division Of The Tuat; Fourth Division Of The Tuat; Fifth Division Of The Tuat; Fourth Division Of The Tuat; Fifth Division Of The Tuat; Sixth Division Of The Tuat; Seventh Division Of The Tuat; Eighth Division Of The Tuat; Ninth Division Of The Tuat; Sixth Division Of The Tuat; Seventh Division Of The Tuat; Eighth Division Of The Tuat; Tenth Division Of The Tuat; Eleventh Division Of The Tuat; Ninth Division Of The Tuat; Tenth Division Of The Tuat; Eleventh Division Of The Tuat; Twelfth Division Of The Tuat; Twelfth Division Of The Tuat; Endnotes

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L'autore:

About the Author:

"E.A. Wallis Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall to Mary Ann Budge, a young woman whose father was a waiter in a Bodmin hotel. Budge's father has never been identified. Budge left Cornwall as a young man, and eventually came to live with his grandmother and aunt in London.

Budge became interested in languages before he was ten years old, but given that he left school at the age of twelve in 1869 to work as a clerk at the firm of W.H. Smith, he studied Hebrew and Syriac in his spare time with the aid of a volunteer tutor named Charles Seeger. Budge became interested in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he also began to spend time in the British Museum. Budge's tutor introduced him to the Keeper of Oriental Antiquities, the pioneer Egyptologist Samuel Birch, and Birch's assistant, the Assyriologist George Smith. Smith helped Budge occasionally with his Assyrian, whereas Birch allowed the young man to study cuneiformtablets in his office and obtained books of Middle Eastern travel and adventure such as Sir Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh and Its Remains for him to read from the British Library.

From 1869 to 1878 Budge spent whatever free time he had from his job at W.H. Smith studying Assyrian, and he often walked down to St. Paul's Cathedral over his lunch break to study during these years. When the organist of St. Paul's, John Stainer, noticed Budge's hard work, he decided to help the boy to realize his dream of working in a profession that would allow him to study Assyrian. Stainer contacted Budge's employer, the Conservative Member of Parliament W.H. Smith, as well as the former Liberal Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone, and asked them to help his young friend. Both Smith and Gladstone agreed to help Stainer to raise money for Budge to attend Cambridge University, where Budge later studied Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Ethiopic and Arabic from 1878 to 1883, continuing to study Assyrian on his own. Budge worked closely during these years with the famous scholar of Semitic languages William Wright, among others." (Quote from en.wikipedia.org)

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• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605064475
• ISBN 13: 9781605064475
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 428