A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 1

John Murray, 1841

The Twelve Months and the Three Seasons	16

80	23

Plethrum Measurements of the Pyramid by Herodotus	24

Jomards Calculations	31

Horus the Type of Majesty The Steersman of the Sacred	36

CHAPTER XI	41

The Edge of the Desert cultivated Vestiges of ancient	52

Royal Cubit Double Cubit recently found at Thebes	68

One	217

Pythagorean Doctrines Idea or Form Matter and	223

Roman Gods Children of Seb and Netpe Manethos	229

CHAP XIII	235

The Ram and Goat in Hieroglyphics AMUNRE	241

Boat of Sokari The Hearse of Osiris Deformed Figure	255

Progeny of Ham and of Cush Ethiopia	262

PASHT Bubastis Diana City of Bubastis The Temple	277

Quality of the Crops Productions of the Winter Sea	75

33	76

Baal Several Deities made of the	81

Threshing by Oxen Song of the Threshers	88

Inundation Its Commencement	94

Menes turned the Course of the Nile Dykes Sluices	99

Plinys Statement of its Rise The Nile rises still in	104

The Inundation Rain rare in Egypt	110

Encroachments of the Sand partial and much exagge	113

Libyan Desert Lake Mæris Fýoóm High Table Land	119

Feast of First Fruits of Lentils when instituted Festival	125

Geese numbered as well as the Eggs	131

The modern Ovens for Hatching Eggs and the Process	138

Seeds and Fruits of India or Africa found there	143

Certain Rites in some Provinces The great Gods wor	157

Plutarchs Observation on the Remark of Xenophanes	164

The Word Piromi and Remark of the Egyptians to Hero	170

Notions respecting Horus his Colour and allegorical Cha	171

Many abstract Ideas made into Gods Strange Gods	173

Osiris not the Unity of the Deity He became a Member	179

Eight Great Gods of Egypt The Triad	185

The Monad or One Deity above and apart from the Triad	190

Pythagoras borrowed them from Egypt His Numerical	197

Errors of the Greeks respecting Egypt The Pallacides	203

Historical Fable not Part of Egyptian Belief Ground	209

The Religion in early Times more simple Sabæan Wor	211

Bubastis had the Head of a Lioness or of a Cat	278

The Word Saïs not the Olive Town of Saïs or	284

Early Sabæan Worship Importance of	290

Re of a Red Colour	296

Heliopolis On Wine not used by the Priests of the Sun	300

Periodical Return of the Phoenix probably the Sothic Period	307

Netpe bears some Analogy to Lucina OSIRIS Judge	314

A Bull with Globe and Feathers	315

The Names of Minos and Rhadamanthus have an Egyptian	326

Many	332

Early Study of Astronomy connected also with the	337

Other Titles Supposed Figure of Osiris in the British	370

IsisSothis The DogStar Legends of Osiris and Isis	371

The Egyptians had the Solar and Sidereal or Sothic Year	374

Abhorrence felt for the Greeks Bulls and Heifers	381

the Form of a Cow Comes from the Mountain perhaps	387

Cultivation of the Land	393

An Allegory and not a real Event The early Notion	395

Notion of his being the God of Silence erroneous	407

His Form The Good Genius distinct from Ranno	413

His Resemblance to Antæus	420

Distinction between the positively Good and the positively	426

Character of this Deity Where represented	432

APHÔPHIS the Serpent The Name signifies a Giant	435

Explanation of his Character by Plutarch Hecate Time	441

Title	A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 1 A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Religion, Agriculture, &c. Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Author	Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
Publisher	John Murray, 1841
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	31 Oct 2006

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