Egyptian Heaven and Hell
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Open Court
Published: January 8, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780875482989
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social history; Social Science; Religion - World Religions; Comparative Religion; Egypt; Archaeology; Social Science / Death & Dying
First sentence: THE inhabitants of Egypt during the Dynastic Period of their history possessed, in common with other peoples of similar antiquity, very definite ideas about the abode of departed spirits, but few, if any, ancient nations caused their beliefs about the situation and form, and divisions, and inhabitants of their Heaven and Hell, or "Other World," to be described so fully in writing, and none have illustrated the written descriptions of their beliefs so copiously with pictorial representations of the gods and devils, and the good and evil spirits and other beings, who were supposed to exist in the kingdom of the dead.