{"product_id":"2940015835267","title":"LEGENDS OF THE GODS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I.  THE LEGEND OF THE CREATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II.  THE LEGEND OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III.  THE LEGEND OF RA AND THE SNAKE-BITE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV.  THE LEGEND OF HORUS OF EDFU AND THE WINGED DISK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V.  THE LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF HORUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI.  A LEGEND OF KHENSU NEFER-HETEP AND THE PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII.  THE LEGEND OF KHNEMU AND A SEVEN YEARS' FAMINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII.  THE LEGEND OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF HORUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX.  THE LEGEND OF ISIS AND OSIRIS ACCORDING TO CLASSICAL WRITERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ON OR FOLLOWING PAGE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe History of Creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I.  Horus holding the Hippopotamus-fiend with chain and spear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II.  Horus spearing the Hippopotamus-fiend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III.  Horus spearing the Hippopotamus-fiend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV.  Horus and Isis capturing the Hippopotamus fiend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V.  Horus on the back of the Hippopotamus-fiend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI.  The slaughter of the Hippopotamus-fiend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII.  Horus of Behutet and Ra-Harmakhis in a shrine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII.  Horus of Behutet and Ra-Harmakhis in a shrine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX.  Ashthertet in her chariot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X.  Horus holding captive foes and spearing Typhonic animals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI.  Horus spearing human foes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII.  Horus spearing the crocodile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII.  Horus in the form of a lion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.  The Procreation of Horus, son of Isis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV.  The Resurrection of Osiris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.  The Bekhten Stele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII.  The Metternich Stele--Obverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII.  The Metternich Stele--Reverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LEGEND OF THE GOD NEB-ER-TCHER, AND THE HISTORY OF CREATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text of the remarkable Legend of the Creation which forms the first\u003cbr\u003esection of this volume is preserved in a well-written papyrus in the\u003cbr\u003eBritish Museum, where it bears the number 10,188.  This papyrus was\u003cbr\u003eacquired by the late Mr. A. H. Rhind in 1861 or 1862, when he was\u003cbr\u003eexcavating some tombs on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes.  He did\u003cbr\u003enot himself find it in a tomb, but he received it from the British\u003cbr\u003eConsul at Luxor, Mustafa Agha, during an interchange of gifts when Mr.\u003cbr\u003eRhind was leaving the country.  Mustafa Agha obtained the papyrus from\u003cbr\u003ethe famous hiding-place of the Royal Mummies at Der-al-Bahari, with the\u003cbr\u003esituation of which he was well acquainted for many years before it\u003cbr\u003ebecame known to the Egyptian Service of Antiquities.  When Mr. Rhind\u003cbr\u003ecame to England, the results of his excavations were examined by Dr.\u003cbr\u003eBirch, who, recognising the great value of the papyrus, arranged to\u003cbr\u003epublish it in a companion volume to Facsimiles of Two Papyri, but the\u003cbr\u003edeath of Mr. Rhind in 1865 caused the project to fall through.  Mr.\u003cbr\u003eRhind's collection passed into the hands of Mr. David Bremner, and the\u003cbr\u003epapyrus, together with many other antiquities, was purchased by the\u003cbr\u003eTrustees of the British Museum. In 1880 Dr. Birch suggested the\u003cbr\u003epublication of the papyrus to Dr. Pleyte, the Director of the Egyptian\u003cbr\u003eMuseum at Leyden.  This savant transcribed and translated some passages\u003cbr\u003efrom the Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys, which is the first text\u003cbr\u003ein it, and these he published in Recueil de Travaux, Paris, tom. iii.,\u003cbr\u003epp. 57-64.  In 1886 by Dr. Birch's kindness I was allowed to work at\u003cbr\u003ethe papyrus, and I published transcripts of some important passages and\u003cbr\u003ethe account of the Creation in the Proceedings of the Society of\u003cbr\u003eBiblical Archaeology, 1886-7, pp. 11-26.  The Legend of the Creation\u003cbr\u003ewas considered by Dr. H. Brugsch to be of considerable value for the\u003cbr\u003estudy of the Egyptian Religion, and encouraged by him[FN#1] I made a\u003cbr\u003efull transcript of the papyrus, which was published in Archaeologia,\u003cbr\u003e(vol. lii., London, 1891), with transliterations and translations.  In\u003cbr\u003e1910 I edited for the Trustees of the British Museum the complete\u003cbr\u003ehieratic text with a revised translation.[FN#2]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[FN#1]  Ein in moglichst wortgetreuer Uebersetzung vorglegter Papyrus-\u003cbr\u003etext soll den Schlussstein meines Werkes bilden.  Er wird den Beweis\u003cbr\u003efur die Richtigkeit meiner eigenen Untersuchungen vollenden, indem er\u003cbr\u003edas wichtigste Zeugniss altagyptischen Ursprungs den zahlreichen, von\u003cbr\u003emir angezogenen Stellen aus den Inschriften hinzufugt.  Trotz mancher\u003cbr\u003eSchwierigkeit im Einzelnen ist der Gesammtinhalt des Textes, den zuerst\u003cbr\u003eein englischer Gelehrter der Wissenschaft zuganglich gemacht hat, such\u003cbr\u003enicht im geringsten misszuverstehen (Brugsch, Religion, p. 740).  He\u003cbr\u003egives a German translation of the Creation Legend on pp. 740, 741, and\u003cbr\u003ea transliteration on p. 756.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171980067056,"sku":"2940015835267","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015835267","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}