Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.Myer, Isaac
Religion
Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Myer, Isaac
Egypt -- Religion; Scarabaeus; Symbolism
[69] Comp. as to the Sphinx, Egypt Under the Pharaohs, by Heinrich
Brugsch-Bey. London, 1891, pp. 37, 38, and especially p. 199 _et seq._
Also G. Maspero in his, _Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l'Orient_.
Paris, 1886, pp. 28, 50, 64, 209.
[70] Comp. _Recherches sur les monum. qu'on peut attribuer aux six
premières Dynasties de Manethon_, etc., by M. Le vicomte Emmanuel de
Rougé. Paris, _Imp. Imper._, 1866. _Recueil de Travaux Relatifs à la
Philol. et à l'Arch. Égypt. et Assyri_, edited by Maspero, Vol. III.
and IV., 1882 _et seq._
[71] Comp. Egypt Under the Pharaohs, etc., by Heinrich Brugsch-Bey.
London, 1891, p. 199 _et seq._ The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt
by E.A. Wallis Budge. Litt. D., F.S.A. London, 1892, pp. 194-5. Hist.
of the Egyptian Relig., by Dr. C.P. Tiele, trans. by James Ballingal.
Boston, 1882, p. 81 _et seq._
[72] _Recueil de Travaux Relatifs à la Philol. et à l'Arch. Égypt._,
etc., _publié de sous la direction de_ G. Maspero, Vol. XI., fas. I,
pp. 2, 3. See also as to mention of Tumu, the Scarabæus, in the
pyramid of Pepi II. (Nefer-ka-Ra) 3166 B.C. _Ibid._, Vol. XII., pp.
144, 153.
[73] Tumu or Tmu was also called Hor-em-khu, i.e., Horus on the
horizon, or, the rising sun, he was the deity Harmakhis of the Greeks;
his symbol, as before mentioned, was the Great Sphinx. Egypt Under the
Pharaohs, by Brugsch-Bey. London, 1891, pp. 199, 201. As to Tum, see
_Supra_.
[74] _Recueil_, etc., before cited, Vol. XII., p. 160 _et seq._, 189,
190. Pyramid of Pepi II. See also the Book of the Dead, Turin Mss. ch.
CXLI., A. 6; _Ibid._, ch. XVII. beginning; _Ibid._, ch. LXXIX., l. 1;
_Ibid._, ch. LXXVIII., l. 12.
[75] _Religions de l'Antiquité_, etc., by J.D. Guigniaut, founded on
the German work of Dr. Fréd. Creuzer. Paris, 1825, Vol. I., part 2,
pl. XLVIII., 187b. Compare the other curious figures of the scarabæus
in this volume, also p. 948 _et seq._
[76] Comp. Wilkinson, Manners, etc., of the Ancient Egyptians, 2nd
series, London, 1841, Vol. II., p. 260, Vol. I., pp. 250, 256.
VII.
IMPORTANCE OF THE HEART IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION.
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ACCORDING TO THAT RELIGION. SYMBOLISM OF
THE SCARAB IN THEIR DOCTRINE OF SUCH IMMORTALITY. NO THING IN
THIS UNIVERSE ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED, ONLY CHANGED. THE IDEA OF
METEMPSYCHOSIS IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ELEVATED IDEAS AS TO THE DEITY.
HYMN TO AMMON-RA CITED. QUOTATIONS AS TO EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHY,
EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE AND KOSMOGONY. OF KHEPRA AND OF TUM OR
ATMU. EGYPTIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS DIVISIONS.
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