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- catalog abstract "This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists. The book begins with the discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently. Upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not vulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and littleknown texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent. Them on earth. By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe.".
- catalog alternative "Dieux égyptiens. English".
- catalog contributor b9700556.
- catalog contributor b9700557.
- catalog coverage "Egypt Religion.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-233) and index.".
- catalog description "Them on earth. By performing appropriate rites, the pharaoh maintained a delicate equilibrium, balancing the sky home of the sun god, the underworld of Osiris and the dead, and the earth itself. While each world was autonomous and had its own mythological context, the separate spheres were also interdependent, requiring the sun's daily course and the pharaoh's ritual actions to ensure the cohesion of the universe.".
- catalog description "This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists. The book begins with the discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently.".
- catalog description "Upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not vulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and littleknown texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The Gods among Themselves / Dimitri Meeks. 1. Origins, Destinies, History. 2. Hierarchies, Prerogatives, Groups. 3. Divine Bodies. 4. Spaces and Places. 5. Intelligence and Knowledge -- pt. II. Mediating between the Gods and Humankind / Christine Favard-Meeks. 6. The Machine of the Universe and the Universal God. 7. The Gods on Earth. 8. The Gods of the Hereafter, the Gods in the Hereafter. 9. From the Dead to the Newborn God. 10. The Machine of the Universe Tottering on the Brink.".
- catalog extent "vii, 249 p., [22] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Daily life of the Egyptian gods.".
- catalog identifier "0801431158 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801482488 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Daily life of the Egyptian gods.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Daily life of the Egyptian gods.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Religion.".
- catalog subject "299/.31 20".
- catalog subject "BL2450.G6 M4413 1996".
- catalog subject "Gods, Egyptian.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The Gods among Themselves / Dimitri Meeks. 1. Origins, Destinies, History. 2. Hierarchies, Prerogatives, Groups. 3. Divine Bodies. 4. Spaces and Places. 5. Intelligence and Knowledge -- pt. II. Mediating between the Gods and Humankind / Christine Favard-Meeks. 6. The Machine of the Universe and the Universal God. 7. The Gods on Earth. 8. The Gods of the Hereafter, the Gods in the Hereafter. 9. From the Dead to the Newborn God. 10. The Machine of the Universe Tottering on the Brink.".
- catalog title "Daily life of the Egyptian gods / Dimitri Meeks, Christine Favard-Meeks ; translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian.".
- catalog title "Dieux égyptiens. English".
- catalog type "text".