Ancient Egypt Light Of The World 2 Vol set

Gerald Massey

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780710309983
• eBook ISBN: 9781134568987
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Egyptian Ancient History
• Index: History

First published in 2005. This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it includes explorations of sign-language in mythological representation, totemism, fetishism, spirits and Gods, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Egyptian wisdom in the Hebrew Genesis. Readers will enjoy the wealth of information offered by Massey, as well as his clear and readable style.

INDEX

Aaiu, the Egyptian Jews, worshippers of the Kamite deity Iu, 511, 653;—, in the Underworld, 647, 653

Aan, the divine Scribe, 691; witness for Horus, 706, 855

Aarru Garden, 196, 363, 373, 640, 658; sown with wheat and barley, 228, 460; harvest field, 239, 372; Paradise, field of papyrus reeds, 259, 304; the Upper and the Lower, 347; in the north, Paradise of the Eight Great Gods, 348, 355; allotments for cultivation, 359, 416, 447, 468, 659; Paradise repeated in Amenta, 420; the Celestial, 421; on the eastward side of Amenta, 460, 642; title-deeds of; its wheat and barley seven cubits high, 460; divine domain, divided into fourteen sections, 577; the Egyptian and the Jewish, 687

Abait: see Bee

Aber-Amentho, the Gnostic Jesus in Amenta, 772–3; lord of the Resurrection, 780, 803

Abraham, seven footprints of, 606

Abut or Abtu, a form of Apap, 714

Abyss, of waters, habitat of hideous beings, 280–2; the Mystical, 284, 302; the first, underground, 284; source of water, 282, 299, 300, 412, 446; repeated in Amenta, 446; Song sung on the steps of the, 472

Aceldama, the field of blood, compared with fertilizing the earth with the blood of the wicked, 878

Achernar, starting-point of the astronomical Nile, 286

Achor, Hebrew valley of sorrow, Egyptian Akar, 474

Adam, two wives of, Lilith and Chavvah, 78; two, the mortal on earth, Manes in Amenta, 423, 425; a dweller in the Celestial Heptanomis, 428; the first and second, 432, 442; the generations of, 435; the first, born with a tail, 436, 442

Adultery, penalty for, 85; with spirits, 174

Æsculapius, the Greek Iu-em-hetep, 755

Agapæ, Phallic festival of fertilization, 105, 108, 223, 747; Christian celebration of, 223–4

Aiu, ass-headed god, with the solar disk, 647, 653; followers of Iu, later Jews, 648; accompanying the sun-god as the “Flocks of Ra,” 653

Airyana Vaêjô, Paradise described in the Avesta, 378

Ak, star to which the rope of the solar boat was made fast, 395

Akar, a name of Amenta, 396; burial-place of Gog and his multitude, 473; valley of Amenta, sepulchre of Osiris in, 474; resurrection in, 475; covert in the midst of, 476; the lowest story of the Ark, 574

Akar or Khar, an underworld presided over by the Sphinx, 337

Akerit, Goddess of Akar, 337

Akhemu-Seku, the non-setting stars, 323, 387, 627

Akilles, Sun-god, 364

Alban Hills, the seven, 609

Alcheringa, mythical past 66; ancestors, half woman, half man, 179; no men or women in, 429

Alexander, as Ichthus, the fish, 743

Ali, the Associate Gods with Ptah, 344, 405, 409, 410, 413, 414, 432–8, 594

Altar, Coffin, the first, 221; of the Palmyrene at Rome, 343; of the Cyclops, 386; for sacrifices after the Deluge, 569; of the Pole, Mound, 587; built by Moses, 666; astronomical in the Constellation Ara, 786; night of provisioning the, 868

Amalek, compared with the Egyptian Am, 644; war of, 661

Amemit, the typical devourer, 643

Amen, the ram-headed, Constellation Aries, 302

Amen-Ra, the Egyptian Apollo, 714; the “Entire God,” 717

Ame-no-mi-Hashira, Japanese divine pillars of the heavens, 351

Ame-no-mi-naka-Nushi-no-Kami, Japanese God of the Pole-star, 379

Amenta, meeting-place of sun and moon, 31; resurrection of the soul in, 152; Manes put together in, 198; mystical Abodes in, 201; Solar god in, 211; night of the great battle in; ten great mysteries on ten different nights, 220; entrance to, a movable stone, 227; traditions of, continued in Rome, 241; mysteries of, purification by fire, 247; eater of the Shades in, 318; excavated by Ptah and his Seven Ali, 344, 411, 413, 638; subterranean country of the nocturnal sun, dawn and sunset its gates, road to heaven for the Manes, its firmament upraised by Ptah, 347; earth of the Manes, 355; entrance to, a blind doorway, 358; its purgatory, hells, mount, tree, solar bark, steps, ladder of ascent to heaven, 360; the Irish—, 366; Paradise of Atum, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• PREFATORY
• Contents
• I. SIGN-LANGUAGE AND MYTHOLOGY AS PRIMITIVE MODES OF REPRESENTATION
• II. TOTEMISM, TATTOO AND FETISHISM AS FORMS OF SIGN-LANGUAGE
• Fetishism
• III. ELEMENTAL AND ANCESTRAL SPIRITS, OR THE GODS AND THE GLORIFIED
• IV. EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD AND THE MYSTERIES OF AMENTA
• V. THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY.
• The Drowning of the Dragon
• VI. THE SIGN-LANGUAGE OF ASTRONOMICAL MYTHOLOGY. Part II
• The Irish Amenta
• VII. EGYPTIAN WISDOM AND THE HEBREW GENESIS
• VIII. THE EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN OTHER JEWISH WRITINGS
• IX. THE ARK, THE DELUGE, AND THE WORLD’S GREAT YEAR
• X. THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT AND THE DESERT OF AMENTA
• XI. EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE DIVINE
• XII. THE JESUS-LEGEND TRACED IN EGYPT FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS
• Double Horus, or Jesus and the Christ
• The Founders of the Kingdom
• Appendix
• Index