The Natural Genesis -Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M03 1 - 568 pages Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace of civilization and that the widespread monotheistic vision of man and the metaphysical was, in fact, based on ancient Egyptian mythos. In The Natural Genesis, Massey delivers a sequel, delving deeper into his compelling polemic. In Volume I, he offers a more intellectual, fine-tuned analysis of the development of society out of Egypt. From the simplest signs (numbers, the cross) to the grandest archetypes (darkness, the mother figure), Massey carefully and confidently lays the cultural and psychosocial bricks of Evolutionism. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including A Book of the Beginnings and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World. |
Contents
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Totemic Typology and CustomsZoötypes made StellarThe Zoological Masque | 134 |
SECTION | 185 |
SECTION VI | 292 |
Darkness the first Adversary Deluder or Devil typified as the Serpent | 370 |
The Mount and Tree as Feminine Types of the BirthplaceThe Tree as Giver | 455 |
Mythology the Mirror of Prehistoric SociologyPriority of the Motherhood | 552 |
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Abyss according Akkadian ancient animal Ankh Avesta beginning bird breath called child Chinese Christ circle crocodile cross custom Darkness dead deity denotes divided divine Dragon dual earliest earth Egypt Egyptian Egyptian mythology emblem English extant father female feminine figure fire four quarters genitrix gesture-signs Gnostic goddess gods Greek hand Hathor heaven Hebrew hieroglyphics hippopotamus Hor-Apollo Horus Hottentot human ideographic Indian Inner African Irenæus Kaffir Kamite Khoi-Khoi language light likewise Lubalo lunar male Maori means mode moon mother mouth myth mythical mythology mythos natural genesis Nephthys origin Osiris phase Plutarch pourtrayed primitive primordial Ptah puberty pubescent Pundjel reckoning represented Ritual Sanskrit says Serpent Sevekh Seven signifies sister snake sneeze solar Solar God soul sound spirit star stone symbol Tefnut totemic transformation tree triad Truths twin type-name Typhon typology woman word Zulu
Popular passages
Page 166 - And HIS FEET shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east ; and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Page 513 - Unless ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
Page 357 - Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Page 393 - The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Page 366 - And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Page 527 - In those Three Persons the One God was shown, Each First in place, each Last, — not one alone ; Of Siva, Vishnu, Brahma, each may be First, second, third, among the Blessed Three.
Page 68 - The Munnieporees and other tribes round Munniepore are each and all divided into four families, the Koomrul, Looang, Ankom, and Ningthaja. A member of any of these families may marry a member of any other, but the intermarriage of the members of the same family is strictly prohibited.* The totemic name still implied an original totemic relationship.
References to this book
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader Molefi Kete Asante,Yoshitaka Miike,Jing Yin No preview available - 2008 |