num_pages: 272
description: My Heart My Mother looks at many different aspects of Egyptian religion from the role of Hathor-Sekhmet the serpent eye goddess in the cult of Osiris to the reliefs in the temple at Abydos and more general discussions of temple life ancestor ritual death rebirth and regeneration. An original piece of work on female divinities and their role in the passage of the pharaohs from death to rebirth that takes us beyond the New Kingdom period and into the Greco-Roman world.
language: English
title: My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt
publisher: Northgate Publishers