Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt

Carolyn Graves-Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2018
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
9781786832887 (ISBN)

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This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt, daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’, and the closely related spirits of the dead.

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt –daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’ – and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits are generally defined in Egyptology as creatures not of this world, which do not have their own cult centre, and both groups are frequently listed together in protective spells. This volume explores the general nature of daemons and spirits in ancient Egypt and discusses a selection in more detail: it uses artefacts from Wales’s important collection of Egyptian objects at the Egypt Centre at Swansea University, in which are to be found a dwarf daemon with sticking out tongue; several guardian daemons of the Otherworld; creatures who are part snake and part feline; spirits of deceased humans; and a Greek satyr Silenus, companion to the wine god Dionysus.

The volume would be valuable in an undergraduate course on ancient Egyptian religion. Almost all courses on ancient Egypt deal with religion and beliefs in the afterlife. Researchers will be interested in the specific artefacts illustrating the themes and the fact that themes selected are unusual. The general public will be interested in the very fact that the book concerns ancient Egypt as well interesting and exciting topics.

List of figures
Chronology
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Realm of the Dead and Daemons, the Otherworld
Chapter 3: Early Daemons and a Magic Wand
Chapter 4: Those with sticking out tongues, dwarves, hippopotami and problems of gender: Daemons from the New Kingdom and later.
Chapter 5: Spirits of the Dead
Chapter 6: Daemons on Coffins, the Book of the Dead and the Star-lit Sky
Chapter 7: Quasi-Daemons
Chapter 8: Conclusions
References

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Lives and Beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	9781786832887 / 9781786832887
Zustand	Neuware