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Eschatology, Egyptian.
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Death -- Religious aspects.
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Egypt -- Religion.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xi, 490 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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data file rda |
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Death and culture : Death as culture generator ; Principal distinctions in the relationship between death and culture -- pt. 1. Images of death. 1. Death as dismemberment : The opening scene of the Osiris Myth ; The Egyptian image of the body ; Salvation from death by piecing together -- 2. Death as social isolation : The physical and social sphere of man ; "One lives, if his name is mentioned" ; "One lives, if another guides him" ; Subjection to death through social isolation ; "I am one with you": salvation from death through inclusion -- 3. Death as enemy : The lawsuit in Heliopolis ; The moralizing of death: the idea of the judgment of the dead ; Death as enemy and the life-giving significance of the judgment of the dead -- 4. Death as dissociation: the person of the deceased and its constituent elements : The Ba ; The deceased and his Ka ; The heart ; Image and body -- 5. Death as separation and reversal : Separation from life: death as parting and inversion ; Out of the realm of death and into the place of eternal nourishment ; Inversion as a state of death -- 6. Death as transition : Transition as ascent to the sky ; Transition as journey to Osiris ; Assistance from beyond: the image of death as transition and the realm of the living -- 7. Death as return : Nut texts: laying to rest in the coffin as return to the womb ; "The place where my heart returns": the tomb in the homeland -- 8. Death as mystery : The mystery of the sun: renewal and rebirth ; The mystery of Osiris ; The tomb as sacred place ; Initiation and death -- 9. Going forth by day : This life as the afterlife: the "reversed polarity" of mortuary belief in the New Kingdom ; Festival and garden as Elysian aspects of the realm of the living -- pt. 2. Rituals and recitations. 10. Mortuary liturgies and mortuary literature : Provisioning and transfiguration: the recording of recitation texts in Old Kingdom pyramids ; Writing as voice and recollection: the recording of mortuary texts in Middle Kingdom coffins and in the Book of the Dead ; Greetings, requests, and wishes -- 11. In the sign of the enemy: the protective wake in the place of embalming : The night before the funeral ; Coffin texts spell 62 ; Wakes and coffin decoration -- 12. The night of vindication : Liturgy A, part 1: The judgment scene ; Liturgy A, part 2: The transfiguration of the vindicated one ; Liturgy A, part 3: The vindicated one as companion of the gods ; Liturgy B: Embalming and provisioning -- 13. Rituals of transition from home to tomb : Artistic and textual depictions of the funeral ; From home to tomb ; The rites of opening the mouth at the entrance of the tomb -- 14. Provisioning the dead : Pyramid texts spell 373 ; Summoning the dead ; Presentation of offerings -- 15. Sacramental explanation : On the semantics of transfigurative speech ; The discharge of the corpse of Osiris: on the sacramental explanation of water ; Mortuary rituals for Egypt -- 16. Freedom from the yoke of transitoriness: resultativity and continuance : Resultativity ; "Trust not in the length of the years": salvation through righteousness ; "Make holiday! Forget care!" -- 17. Freedeom from the yoke of transitoriness: immortality : Realm of death and Elysium: the originally royal sense of this distinction ; Redemption through Unio Liturgica ; Salvation through divine grace -- Egypt and the history of death. |
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In English. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9780801464805 (electronic bk.) |
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0801464803 (electronic bk.) |
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0801442419 |
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9780801442414 |
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0801479738 |
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9780801479731 |
| Standard # |
10.7591/9780801464805 doi |
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