Offerings to the Gods in Egyptian Temples

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-429-2618-9
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Kings and gods adorn the walls of Egyptian temples in face-to-face

meetings, and for two millennia these depictions have united the king

and the divine. The king, the son of the god, presents his ancestors an

offering or performs a ritual.

Over two hundred offerings are divided into broad categories:

purification, beverages, foods, produce from the fields, fabrics,

ointments and adornments; rituals for goddesses and gods; symbolic,

cosmic, funerary and defensive rituals; and royal cult rituals. All are

explained, from their simple action (e.g. offering beer as a daily

drink) to their symbolic meaning (beer is also a sacred drink that

induces ecstasy of a divine nature which annihilates the destructive

force of the daughter of Ra). A drawing and photographs illustrate each

offering. The title of the offering is given in hieroglyphs to enable

everyone to locate the words on the temple walls. Translations of the

most significant texts accompany each of the offerings. Most of the

texts in this book date to the last period of Egyptian history

(Graeco-Roman period, 300 B.C. to A.D. 300) where the decoration is

enriched with complex inscriptions, written in so-called "Ptolemaic"

that very few Egyptologists are able to translate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cauville, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Kult, Riten, Feiertage, Zeremonien, Gebete