Title: Ancient Egyptian religion : an interpretation /
Authors: Frankfort, Henri, 1897-1954
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Year: 1961
Subjects: Egypt Religion.
Contents: 1. The Egyptian gods -- The gods and their symbols -- Sacred animals and otherness -- Cosmic gods and human problems -- The immanence of the gods and the limitations of Egyptian religiosity -- 2. The Egyptian state -- The Egyptian conception of the state -- The organization of the state -- The person of the monarch -- Change, permanence, and the conception of Maat -- 3. The Egyptian way of life -- The "teachings" -- The pragmatic misinterpretation -- Success as attunement -- The absence of the concept of sin -- The significance of tradition -- 4. The Egyptian hope -- The preoccupation with death -- The dead in the tomb -- The appearing dead -- The transfigured dead -- The quasi-royal dead -- The dead in the cosmic circuit -- 5. Change and permanence in literature and art -- Obstacles to our understanding -- The myth in folk tale and literature -- The absence of drama -- Narrative versus poetic style -- The short story -- Architectural forms.