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Students at the high-school level and above who are doing research on Egyptian mythology will find this volume interesting and helpful. The first chapter discusses the nature of myths and the history of Egypt from the predynastic to the postpharaonic period. The second goes through several myth complexes and cycles and their variations. The third chapter, "Deities, Themes, and Concepts, " is an alphabetical listing of well over 100 topics and is the meat of the book. Articles range in length from a single line to several pages. All have see also references, and most cite both secondary and primary sources. Entries are readable and note where particular deities absorbed characteristics of others during historical periods. The inconsistencies of Egyptian mythology are noted, as in the variations of the Osiris stories. The frankly sexual nature of many of Egypt's creation myths is not glossed over, nor are the coupling habits of the gods.
A final chapter is an annotated list of print and nonprint resources on Egyptian myth, some of which may be found in many larger public and academic libraries. A few novels influenced by Egyptian myth are also listed and annotated, including Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings and Elizabeth Peters' The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog. A few videos are reviewed, and several Web sites and CD-ROMs are listed. Pinch's annotations are clear and informative and not without a certain dry humor.
A very helpful glossary defines Egyptian words and other terms that are commonly used in Egyptology. The appendix listing primary sources would be of most use to college students beginning to study Egyptian mythology or Egyptology. This volume is recommended for medium-sized and large public libraries and academic libraries with lower-division mythology and Egyptology classes. It joins others of the publisher's Handbooks of World Mythology, including Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology (2002) and Handbook of Norse Mythology (2001). RBB
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Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), 'The Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.
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A Perfect Guide
28. Dezember 2007
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This book was the perfect start-off point for my thesis research on ancient Egypt. It goes into an amazing amount of depth on a broad range of the spiritual aspects of ancient Egypt while remaining interesting and brief. Not only has Pinch fit an amazing catalog of information which I've found hard to come across in such mass in any other text, but she takes care to reference and suggest a wealth of texts to turn to next for more detailed information on any given topic in the book. For anyone who is either curious of or finds themselves in a position where they need to know more about the gods and customs of ancient Egypt, this is the perfect learner's guide.
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Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditons of Ancient Egypt
20. Januar 2008
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Wonderful beginners' book to start a life long "love" of history and mythology. Makes for a great "rainy" day reader. My granddaughter is especially fond of stories from this book. An easy read with good information.
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The first half of the book was outstanding; the last half was very dry
24. Juni 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
The opening chapters of Pinch's book are fantastic: her explanation of Egyptian concepts of time, religion and culture is among the best I have read on the subject. With this foundation, she then goes into detail of differences (in the Egyptian understanding of the cosmos) between "linear time" and "cyclical time" (the ancient Egyptians were big on duality: night / day, good / bad, male / female, and of course, linear / cyclical reckonings of time.) The first 100 pages are really worth the price of the book for this reason.
The remaining 200-ish pages are an encyclopedia of sorts, the symbols, dieties and broader concepts of Egyptian beliefs are explained and cross-referenced. While this was interesting in and of itself (as encyclopedias tend to be), there is no narrative "thread" that ties this together other than how these dieties relate to the broader cosmological world of ancient Egypt. For this reason, I deducted a star.
In all, it is a very good guide to understanding the literature and culture of ancient Egypt, and I highly recommend it on these grounds alone. One caveat, however - my first copy for some reason, had a printing error, where pages 82 - 114 were missing; (pages 57 - 82 were duplicated in its place), therefore skipping some of the meatiest parts of the book. (The book store I bought my copy from was gracious enough to replace it.) Caveat emptor.
The remaining 200-ish pages are an encyclopedia of sorts, the symbols, dieties and broader concepts of Egyptian beliefs are explained and cross-referenced. While this was interesting in and of itself (as encyclopedias tend to be), there is no narrative "thread" that ties this together other than how these dieties relate to the broader cosmological world of ancient Egypt. For this reason, I deducted a star.
In all, it is a very good guide to understanding the literature and culture of ancient Egypt, and I highly recommend it on these grounds alone. One caveat, however - my first copy for some reason, had a printing error, where pages 82 - 114 were missing; (pages 57 - 82 were duplicated in its place), therefore skipping some of the meatiest parts of the book. (The book store I bought my copy from was gracious enough to replace it.) Caveat emptor.
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