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Subject(s)

• Future life [Browse]
• Egypt—Religion [Browse]
• Death—Religious aspects—Ancient Egyptian religion [Browse]
• Funeral rites and ceremonies—Egypt [Browse]
• Egypt—Civilization—To 332 B.C. [Browse]

Series

• Bibliothèque d'étude ; t. 175. [More in this series]
• Publications de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire ; 1187. [More in this series]
• Bibliothèque d'étude, 0259-3823 ; 175 [More in this series]
• IF ; 1187

Summary note

"This work, stem[ming] from a doctoral dissertation, aims at demonstrating that referring to birth and its practical modalities is an essential aspect of Ancient Egypt's funerary beliefs. From the Pyramid Texts to the books of the afterlife in the New Kingdom, funerary writings of Egypt are full of allusions to post mortem fate viewed as second birth, which imitates more of less precisely the biological process of the first. Be he king or an ordinary man, the dead is carried in gestation by one or several divine mothers and is born again in the afterworld; there his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, fed and cared for like a newborn child. Numerous mythical elements join the purely practical ones, thus reinventing the biological model and showing the intermingling of both the worldly and cosmic levels. thanks to this cyclic process, not only does the deceased access the hereafter, but he is also eternally alive there." -- Page [4] of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

• 2724707435
• 9782724707434

OCLC

1156177663

RCP

C - O

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