The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

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A. H. Sayce. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia

Table of Contents

Part I. The Religion Of Ancient Egypt

Lecture I. Introduction

Lecture II. Egyptian Religion

Lecture III. The Imperishable Part Of Man And The Other World

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And The Ennead

Lecture V. Animal Worship

Lecture VI. The Gods Of Egypt

Lecture VII. Osiris And The Osirian Faith

Lecture VIII. The Sacred Books

Lecture IX. The Popular Religion Of Egypt

Lecture X. The Place Of Egyptian Religion In The History Of Theology

Part II. The Religion Of The Babylonians

Lecture I. Introductory

Lecture II. Primitive Animism

Lecture III. The Gods Of Babylonia

Lecture IV. The Sun-God And Istar

Lecture V. Sumerian And Semitic Conceptions Of The Divine: Assur And Monotheism

Lecture VI. Cosmologies

Lecture VII. The Sacred Books

Lecture VIII. The Myths And Epics

Lecture IX. The Ritual Of The Temple

Lecture X. Astro-Theology And The Moral Element In Babylonian Religion

Index

Footnotes

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A. H. Sayce

Published by Good Press, 2020

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How far the invaders themselves formed a single race is still uncertain. Some scholars believe that, besides the Asiatics who entered Egypt from the south, crossing the Red Sea and so marching through the eastern desert to the Nile, there were other Asiatics who came overland from Mesopotamia, and made their way into the Delta across the isthmus of Suez. Of this overland invasion, however, I can myself see no evidence; so far as our materials at present allow us to go, the Egyptians of history were composed, at most, of three elements, the Asiatic invaders from the south, and two older races, which we may term aboriginal. One of them Professor Petrie is probably right in maintaining to be Libyan.4

We thus have at least three different types of religious belief and practice at the basis of Egyptian religion, corresponding with the three races which together made up the Egyptian people. Two of the types would be African; the third would be Asiatic, perhaps Babylonian. From the very outset, therefore, we must be prepared to find divergences of religious conception as well as divergences in rites and ceremonies. And such divergences can be actually pointed out.5

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