Author's Afterword : p. 121 AUTHOR'S AFTERWORD THE study of error is often only a little less important than the study of truth. The history of the human mind. in its progress from ignorance towards knowledge should tell us the mistakes into which it has sometimes wandered, as well as its steps in the right path. We...
The Religion Of Lower Egypt : p. 59 THE RELIGION OF LOWER EGYPT. Click to view Fig. 76 AFTER the fall of Thebes, after the conquest of Egypt by the Ethiopians, and after the disorders which followed thereupon, we find in about the year B.C. 700, a race of kings, who made Sais in the Delta their capital, sovereigns of all Egypt...
Untitled : EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANITY By Samuel Sharpe London J.R. Smith [1863] This short work on Egyptian religion from the middle of the 19th Century was written at a time when the subject was just beginning to be understood by modern scholars, due to the recent decipherment...
The Egyptian Mythology : p. 1 THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Click to view Fig. 1.--The Winged Sun of Thebes. THE history of religious error is the history of the mind wandering in its search after Truth. We meet among the gross idolatry of one nation, as in the purer religion of another nation, the same acknowledgment that m...
The Religion Under The Ptolemies : p. 76 THE RELIGION UNDER THE PTOLEMIES. AFTER the conquest of Egypt by the Greeks in the year B.C. 332, and on the building of the Greek city of Alexandria, Heliopolis lost much of its importance as a. school. Alexandria then became the seat of that mixture of opinions which had made Heliopolis...
Christianity Under The Byzantine Emperors : p. 106 CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE BYZANTINE EMPERORS. When quiet was re-established in Egypt by the Roman armies, after more than sixty years of civil troubles, it was found to be no longer the same country that it had been under the Antonines. The framework of society had been broken, the Greeks had...
The Religion Under The Persian Conquerors : p. 73 THE RELIGION UNDER THE PERSIAN CONQUERORS. THE Persians, on their conquest of Egypt, in the year B.C. 523, began with insulting the Egyptians in their religious feelings, by killing the bull Apis, and by breaking to pieces the statues of the gods. They afterwards made an earnest attempt...
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Christianity Under The Roman Emperors : p. 92 CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS. CHRISTIANITY was first preached in Egypt by the Evangelist Mark about thirty years after the Crucifixion. He had sailed with Barnabas to Cyprus (Acts xv. 39), and thence probably went on to Alexandria. There he appointed, as the first of a successi...
The Religion Under The Romans : p. 87 THE RELIGION UNDER THE ROMANS Click to view Fig. 86.--Horus as the vault of Heaven. DURING the two or three centuries before the Christian era, Osiris the judge of the dead, in his character of Osiris-Apis, or Serapis, had risen to a higher rank in the Egyptian mythology, and had been...
The Religion Of Upper Egypt : THE RELIGION OF UPPER EGYPT. First among these gods of the Egyptians was Ra, "the Sun", or Amun-Ra, "The Great Sun", whose warmth ripened their harvests, but whose scorching rays made his power felt as much as an enemy as a friend. His sculptured figure wears a cap ornamented with two tall feathers...