The Egyptian Heaven And Hell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781419173479
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History; History - General History; Ancient Egypt; Ancient - Egypt
First sentence: THE inhabitants of Egypt during the Dynastic Period of their history possessed, in common with other people 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.