Five Egyptian Goddesses

Released on by Susan Tower Hollis
preview-18

  • Five Egyptian Goddesses Book Detail

  • Author : Susan Tower Hollis
  • Release Date : 2019-10-03
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Pages : 237
  • ISBN 13 : 1780937946
  • File Size : 81,81 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Five Egyptian Goddesses by Susan Tower Hollis PDF Summary

Book Description: This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three millennia of ancient Egyptian history, their origins, earliest roles, and relationships in religion, myth, and cult have never before been studied together in detail. Showcasing the latest research with carefully chosen illustrations and a full bibliography, Susan Tower Hollis suggests that the origins of the goddesses derived primarily from their functions, as, shown by their first appearances in the text and art of the Protodynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods of the late fourth and third millennia BCE. The roles of the goddess Bat are also explored where she is viewed both as an independent figure and in her specific connections to Hathor, including the background to their shared bovine iconography. Hollis provides evidence of the goddesses' close ties with royalty and, in the case of Neith, her special connections to early queens. Vital reading for all scholars of Egyptian religion and other ancient religions and mythology, this volume brings to light the earliest origins of these goddesses who would go on to play major parts in later narratives, myths, and mortuary cult.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Five Egyptian Goddesses books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Early Dynastic Egypt

Early Dynastic Egypt

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 2660 Views
DOWNLOAD

Early Dynastic Egypt spans the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This was the formative period of ancient Egyptian civiliz

Five Egyptian Goddesses

Five Egyptian Goddesses

File Size : 14,14 MB
Total View : 2550 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importanc

The Theology of Hathor of Dendera

The Theology of Hathor of Dendera

File Size : 23,23 MB
Total View : 3503 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Ptolemaic period witnessed an enormous increase in the number of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements (composite crowns, scepters, and cult objects)