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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods by Dimitri Meeks and Christine Favard-Meeks is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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This Is The First English Translation Of A Highly Appealing Volume Originally Published In French In 1993. Informed By A Sense Of Wonderment At Divine Doings, It Treats The Ancient Egyptian Gods As If They Were An Ethnic Group That Captured The Fancy Of Ethnologists Or Sociologists. The Book Begins With The Discussion Of The Gods' Community As A Society Unto Itself. The Authors Describe The Structures Of The Society Of The Gods And Some Of The Conflicts That Frequently. Upset It, With Individual Gods Acting To Protect Their Own Positions In An Established Hierarchy And Struggling To Gain Power Over Their Fellows. The Nature Of Their Immortal But Not Vulnerable Bodies, Their Pleasures, And Their Needs Are Considered. What Did They Eat, The Authors Ask, And Did They Feel Pain? The Second Part Of The Book Cites Familiar Traditions And Littleknown Texts To Explain The Relationship Of The Gods To The Pharaoh, Who Was Believed To Represent. Them On Earth. By Performing Appropriate Rites, The Pharaoh Maintained A Delicate Equilibrium, Balancing The Sky Home Of The Sun God, The Underworld Of Osiris And The Dead, And The Earth Itself. While Each World Was Autonomous And Had Its Own Mytholog

Who reads Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods?

Author

Dimitri Meeks and Christine Favard-Meeks

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801482489

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, History, Other Religions

Rating

4.5 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14